DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER / THE THREEPENNY OPERA

BRECHT / WEILL

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Darkness wasn’t an issue for the cabaret performer Meow Meow – a natural fit for the vengeful prostitute Jenny, husking out her songs with lived-in emotion and restoring “Pirate Jenny” to the violence…

 The “Solomon Song” also stepped just outside the safe dramatic frame established by the evening, reaching for something a little sharper and more grubby than the glossy comedic slickness of Jurowski and his band.

NEW STATESMAN

Brecht/Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper / Threepenny Opera (Jenny)
London Philharmonic Orchestra 2013

Théatre des Champs-Elysées Paris
Royal Festival Hall London

Conductor - Vladimir Jurowski
Director - Ted Huffman
Lighting Malcolm Rippeth

Mark Padmore - Macheath
Sir John Tomlinson - J J Peachum 
Dame Felicity Palmer - Mrs Peachum 
Allison Bell - Polly Peachum 
Nicholas Folwell - Tiger Brown 
Gabriela Istoc - Lucy Brown 
Meow Meow - Jenny 
Max Hopp - Narrator 
London Philharmonic Choir

Photo: Harmony Nicholas