“The Threepenny Opera” at the Salzburg Theater: The shark’s teeth were pulled

2023-05-01 11:56:08

The “Threepenny Opera” by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill has slipped down to the petty bourgeoisie in the Salzburg Schauspielhaus.

According to the latest statistics, every sixth person in Austria is at risk of poverty. So do these circumstances favor a work like The Threepenny Opera, which Bert Brecht and Kurt Weill wrote with the collaboration of Elisabeth Hauptmann in the late 1920s, when the world was reeling economically and politically? And all the hit songs regarding the conditions, which unfortunately aren’t like that, regarding “food comes first, then comes morality” or regarding the shark and its teeth, they hit the basic mood…

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