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Antú Romero Nunes
Florian Lösche
Victoria Behr
Matthias Günther
Johannes Hofmann
Sven Schelker (Mackie Messer)
Franziska Hartmann (Spelunken-Jenny)
Thomas Niehaus (Brown, Polizeichef)
Jörg Pohl (Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum)
Lisa Florentine Schmalz (Lucy, Browns Tochter (alternierend))
Paul Schröder (Filch; Smith)
Anna-Maria Torkel (Lucy, Browns Tochter (alternierend))
Victoria Trauttmansdorff (Celia Peachum, seine Frau)
Katharina Marie Schubert (Polly Peachum, deren Tochter)
Carolina Bigge (Schlagwerk, Bandleitung)
Anna Bauer (Klavier, Akkordeon, Gesangeinstudierung)
Eva Barta
Kerstin Sund (Gitarre, Banjo, Lap Steel Gitarre)
Natascha Protze (Saxophone, Klarinette, Flöten)
Jonathan Krause (Saxophone, Klarinetten)
Anita Wälti (Trompete)
Chris Lüers (Posaune, Kontrabass)
Soho, London, 1928 – the place where the man who masters corruption is the man who runs the city. Here the rules of the market are redefined, here human misery is a commodity and crime is an alternative business model. Jonathan Peachum, head of a beggar mafia, does a roaring trade advising and furnishing the poorest people in society and capitalising on people’s guilty consciences. 50% of the beggars’ earnings go directly to him. In contrast, gangster boss Mackie Messer has devoted himself to the dark crime business, including robbery and murder, and spends most of his time in brothels. His relationship with childhood friend ‘Tiger’ Brown, who grew up to become the most senior police officer in London, has allowed him to flourish. But when he marries Peachum’s daughter Polly, the two businessmen meet each other for the very first time and territories must be newly divided.
Bertolt Brecht had only just turned 30 when he wrote this opera, his critique of capitalism, which was “so ostentatious that only a beggar could dream it up” and “so cheap that even a beggar could afford it.” Even Brecht could never have predicted that this piece, together with Kurt Weill’s score, would become an overnight smash hit. Antú Romero Nunes, director in residence at Thalia, opens the 2015/16 season with Brecht’s image of a juggernaut metropolis and tells the story of people who fight for survival, of corrupt cops, who decide people’s fates and of whores who are hungry for justice.
7th and 8th March 2018
Luxembourg
5th and 6th November 2016
Festspiele Ludwigshafen
2nd October 2016
Gütersloh
7th to 11th September 2016
Duisburg