Who wrote the music for Berthold Brecht's `The Beggars Opera'?
The Beggar's Opera with the characters. The story satirised politics, poverty and injustice, focusing on the theme of corruption at all levels of society. Lavinia Fenton, the first Polly Peachum, became an overnight success. Her pictures were in great demand, verses were written to her and books published about her. After appearing in several comedies, and then in numerous repetitions of "The Beggars Opera", she ran away with her married lover, Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton. Elisabeth Hauptmann (with Bertolt Brecht) and Kurt Weill adapted the opera into "Die Dreigroschenoper" ("The Threepenny Opera") in 1928, sticking closely to the original plot and
Bertolt Brecht the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (as a child known as Eugen) was born in February 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, the son of Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1869–1939) and his wife Sophie, née Brezing (1871–1920). Brecht's mother was a devout Protestant and his father a Roman Catholic (who had been persuaded to have a Protestant wedding). The modest house where he was born is today preserved as a Brecht Museum. His father worked for a paper mill, becoming its managing director in 1914. Due to his mother's influence, Brecht