Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Sound designer

Florent Derex

Conductor

Maxime Pascal

Stage director

Thomas Ostermeier

Set designer

Magda Willi

Costume designer

Florence von Gerkan

Lighting designer

Urs Schönebaum

Video designer

Sébastien Dupouey

Choreographer

Johanna Lemke

Dramaturge

Christian Longchamp

Translator

Alexandre Pateau

Dramaturgie et collaboration artistique

Elisa Leroy

Singer

Tenor

Birane Ba

Macheath

Bass

Christian Hecq

Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum

Mezzo-soprano

Véronique Vella

Celia Peachum

Soprano

Marie Oppert

Polly Peachum

Elsa Lepoivre

Jenny

Claïna Clavaron

Lucy Brown

Baritone

Benjamin Lavernhe

Jackie "Tiger" Brown

Nicolas Lormeau

Homme de Macheath

Noam Morgensztern

Nicolas Chupin

Smith

Robert

Sefa Yeboah

Filch

Saul, dit Saule-pleureur, homme de Macheath

Jordan Rezgui

Matthias

Cédric Eekhout

Jakob

Chorus master

Philippe Franceschi

Others

Le Balcon

Amateur Choir Passerelles

French

Die Dreigroschenoper -  (The Threepenny Opera)

Aix-en-Provence

France

Théâtre de l'Archevêché

Public

The Threepenny Opera

English

Approved

Die Dreigroschenoper Weill

Entretien avec le metteur en scène Thomas Ostermeier autour de L'opéra de quat'sous de Brecht, Weill et Hauptmann, nouvelle production du Festival d'Aix et de la Comédie-Française à découvrir du 4 au 24 juillet 2023 au Théâtre de l'Archevêché.

"To be a good man – what a nice idea! But there’s the little problem of subsistence: Supplies are scarce and human beings base." The Threepenny Opera (1928), translation Eric Bentley

Who hasn’t heard of Mackie’s lament, that penetrating refrain, smooth as a sharpened razor blade? This year, the opening of the Festival takes an exceptional twist: after Mahagonny’s success (2019), the Archevêché will host, for the first time, the troupe of the Comédie-Française under the stage direction of Thomas Ostermeier for Weill and Brecht's other world-famous hit – The Threepenny Opera. A colourful anarchistic revue, a dark collage of haunting songs and danceable rhythms, this parody of opera demystifies a genre deemed bourgeois at a time when mass music is on the rise, and sarcastically describes the Weimar Republic – a period of moral confusion which is reminiscent of our own. Maxime Pascal will lead a dozen virtuoso multi-instrumentalists from his ensemble Le Balcon to perform the original version, for the first time on stage since its creation – a version that is more forceful and in line with Weill’s wishes. A few unpublished pages will be added, and a new translation will be made in close collaboration with the artistic team.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble