{"id":13198,"date":"2009-03-25T13:29:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=13198"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:49:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:49:59","slug":"nau-opera-transports-the-the-threepenny-opera-to-modern-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-opera-transports-the-the-threepenny-opera-to-modern-life\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Opera transports the \u2018The Threepenny Opera\u2019 to modern life"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAU Opera brings\u00a0Mack the Knife<\/em>\u00a0and the plight of the poor and profiteers to the stage with its performance ofThe Threepenny Opera<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In their opera “by and for beggars,” composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) transformed old-fashioned opera and operetta forms by including bitter political perspective and 1920s Berlin dance band and cabaret music.<\/p>\n

The drama and wit of the play focuses on the lives of prostitutes and beggars and the rich who are trying to take advantage of them. Jealousy, betrayal and forgiveness are themes in the seamy tale.<\/p>\n

NAU Opera will stage the 1927 opera in English in a modern 21st century New York City setting. \u201cThe Ballad of Mack the Knife,\u201d a popular standard, opens the opera with student singers alternating performances.<\/p>\n

David Bracamonte<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Jared Levin<\/strong>\u00a0play Mr. Peachum;\u00a0Roland Mills<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Andrew Surrena<\/strong>\u00a0play Macheath;Quentin Lee<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Andrew Sievers<\/strong>\u00a0play Tiger Brown;\u00a0Kia Crotinger\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Staci Dickens<\/strong>\u00a0play Mrs. Peachum;Sandra Flores<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Aubrey Peotter<\/strong>\u00a0play Polly Peachum;\u00a0Rachael Hirsch<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Sarah Gilbert<\/strong>\u00a0play Jenny; andJenny Statler<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Kai Xin Tay<\/strong>\u00a0play Lucy Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Penny for their thoughts<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Learn about Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and the historical and artistic significance of their opera during an NAU-led discussion held 30 minutes prior to Thursday and Saturday performances.In addition, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 5, an NAU luncheon and faculty discussion, \u201cThe Threepenny Opera in context: A panel presentation by faculty from NAU\u2019s College of Arts and Letters\u201d will be held in Ashurst Auditorium.<\/p>\n

Cost for this event is $27 and tickets are available at NAU\u2019s Central Ticketing office at (928) 523-5661.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cThe satire in this piece may be biting,\u201d said visiting director Kay Castaldo, \u201cbut the evening in the theater is pure entertainment as well
\nas a confrontation with humor, wickedness and irony.\u201d<\/p>\n

Castaldo, who has directed with opera companies worldwide,
\nincluding many guest engagements with the New York City Opera,
\nwill be accompanied by\u00a0Nicholas Ross<\/strong>, NAU director of orchestras, the NAU Symphony Orchestra, the NAU Opera chorus and student soloists.<\/p>\n

Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. April 2 and 4 and at 2 p.m. April 5. Tickets are $22.50 for adults, $18.50 for seniors, $10.50 for faculty and $8 for students. For tickets, call the NAU Central Ticket Office at (928) 523-5661.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAU Opera brings\u00a0Mack the Knife\u00a0and the plight of the poor and profiteers to the stage with its performance ofThe Threepenny Opera. In their opera “by and for beggars,” composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) transformed old-fashioned opera and operetta forms by including bitter political perspective and 1920s Berlin dance band and cabaret…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":13199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}