In Opera za tri groše, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s sharp-edged classic returns as a meeting point of drama, music and social satire. The production, directed by Mateja Koležnik and conducted by Marko Letonja, brings together the acting ensemble of SNG Drama Ljubljana with the choir and orchestra of SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana in the first co-production of the two national theatres.
Based on John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, with Elisabeth Hauptmann as collaborator, the piece turns poverty, corruption and bourgeois hypocrisy into a darkly seductive theatrical machine: witty, brutal, musical and still disquietingly current.
Premiere: 20 March 2025, SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana.
Credits:
Authors: Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill
After John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera; collaborator: Elisabeth Hauptmann
Co-production: SNG Drama Ljubljana and SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana
Director: Mateja Koležnik
Conductor: Marko Letonja
Translator: Ervin Fritz
Dramaturg: Mojca Kranjc
Set and Video Designer: Igor Vasiljev
Costume Designer: Ana Savić Gecan
Choreographer: Magdalena Reiter
Sound Designer: Luka Berden
Photography: Darja Štravs Tisu
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