Die Dreigroschenoper - Opera Zuid

Die Dreigroschenoper is about the devious gangster Macheath (Mackie Messer), who marries the daughter of the beggar king, Polly Peachum. Father Peachum tries to be sentenced to Macheath to keep his power. Betrayal, corruption and bribery show how this (sub) world works. The opera starts with the world famous Die Moritat von Mackie Messer and ends with a cynical Deus ex Machina, or an unexpected denouement.

Kurt Weills iconic music seeks the boundaries of the musical theater. In Die Dreigrosoper melt classic, cabaret, jazz and chanson together into a timeless and unique experience. "Weill composes in a music style that cannot be captured;

Die Dreigroschenoper stimulates and confronts a dynamic, high-artistic way. "The music sounds - in a positive sense - unpolished, a bit raw and sometimes almost attaquing. The connection of text and music also has a very strong theatrical effect. As in the famous Mackie Messer: seduce the sounds, while the textual content is sobering. That, and all those different styles requires a very high degree of artisticity, from all of us. "Said Delamboye.

For the direction of Die Dreigrosenoper Opera Zuid chooses theaterman Servé Hermans. As artistic director of Toneelgroep Maastricht, he made and directed numerous successful theater pieces. He also directed the spectacle musicals diary of a shepherd dog and it was in the south on Sunday. With Die Dreigrschenoper he makes his debut as an opera director. "I find it interesting that it is such a social and current piece. In Die Dreigrosenoper the power lies with a few people, in a society in which the vast majority is needy. Mirror that once in the era in which we live. "According to Servé Hermans, the opera shows" its own, autonomous world - recognizable, but not an environment in which the theater audience moves every day. "The absurd, ironic situations hold a mirror to us. How does Mackies World relate to our own society? And who do we actually laugh about? 

Die Dreigroschenoper takes about two and a half hours including a break and is sung in German, with Dutch dialogues and with Dutch and English surtitles.