The Threepenny Opera · Musical
Songs in The Threepenny Opera
This page features the songs from The Threepenny Opera. Song cards link to details such as style, context, vocal notes, and audition cut suggestions when available. Explore the list below to access song guides.
Prelude
- Overture
- The Ballad of Mack the Knife – The Street Singer
Act 1
- -Peachum's Morning Choral – Peachum, Mrs Peachum
- Instead of Song – Peachum, Mrs Peachum
- Wedding Song – Four Gangsters
- Pirate Jenny – Polly
- Cannon Song (“Army Song”) – Macheath, Brown
- Love Song – Polly, Macheath
- Barbara Song – Polly
- First Threepenny Finale – Polly, Peachum, Mrs Peachum
Act 2
- Melodrama – Macheath
- Polly's Song – Polly
- Ballad of Sexual Dependency – Mrs Peachum
- Ballad of the Pimp– Jenny, Macheath
- Ballad of the Pleasant Life – Macheath
- Jealousy Duet – Lucy, Polly
- Aria of Lucy – Lucy
- Second Threepenny Finale – Macheath, Mrs Peachum, Chorus
Act 3
- Song of the Insufficiency of Human Struggling (“Life’s a Bitch”) – Peachum
- Reminiscence
- Solomon Song – Jenny
- Call from the Grave – Macheath
- Grave Inscription – Macheath
- Walk to Gallows – Peachum
- Third Threepenny Finale – Brown, Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Macheath, Polly, Chorus
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number.