The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper ) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann, adapted from which of John Gay's English ballad opera in three acts, written in 1728?
The Threepenny Opera The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper ) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann, adapted from John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, "The Beggar's Opera", with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling. Although Hauptmann produced 80 to 90 percent of the text, Brecht suppressed this and assumed sole credit, and is usually listed as sole author in printed versions.
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 190 Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Sing a new song to the Lord), BWV 190 , is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He wrote it in Leipzig for the New Year's Day and first performed it on 1 January 1724 as part of his first cantata cycle. He adapted it in 1730 to "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied", BWV 190a , for the celebration of the bicentennial of the Augsburg Confession.