The Threepenny Opera

Musical

Writers: Bertolt Brecht Elisabeth Hauptmann Kurt Weill

Songs

Prelude

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; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.


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