"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of #MackTheKnife" (German: "Die #Moritat von Mackie Messer") is a song composed by #KurtWeill with lyrics by #BertoltBrecht for their 1928 music drama #TheThreepennyOpera (German: Die Dreigroschenoper).

"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of #MackTheKnife" (German: "Die #Moritat von Mackie Messer") is a song composed by #KurtWeill with lyrics by #BertoltBrecht for their 1928 music drama #TheThreepennyOpera (German: Die Dreigroschenoper).

"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of #MackTheKnife" (German: "Die #Moritat von Mackie Messer") is a song composed by #KurtWeill with lyrics by #BertoltBrecht for their 1928 music drama #TheThreepennyOpera (German: Die Dreigroschenoper).

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Just heard Louis Armstrong’s version on the radio so back to the oldest sources on Apple. Music before the fall….

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Now playing Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg – The Threepenny Opera / The Berlin Theatre Songs
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May 16
Lotte Lenya is likely to be the least seen musical performer I'll highlight this month but her Jenny Diver in The Threepenny Opera is a classic for a reason. Still early into speaking cinema Lenya is mesmerising in her big solo number & watchable outside that.

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Bertolt Brecht, an emblematic German playwright

Today, August 14, we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the death of Bertolt Brecht, a renowned German playwright,…

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As the promo for @NationalTheatre #TheThreePennyOpera says "Contains filthy language and immoral behaviour." Certainly that but so much more

New must see. @NationalTheatre #TheThreePennyOpera. #RoryKinnear leads an amazing cast in madcap amoral musical romp.

Pop versions of the song would become hits for Bobby Darin and Louis Armstrong in the 1950s. 

Illustrated by: @pxncakepup.bsky.social

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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“By the thousands, we’ll tear at their nerves, for our rags do not conceal our wounds!”
Fritz Rasp in The Threepenny Opera
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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“By the thousands we'll tear at their nerves, for our rags do not conceal our wounds!”
Gaston Modot in The Threepenny Opera
#TheThreepennyOpera #GWPabst #moviequotes
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