Theater: BAM Howard Gilman Opera House / 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
Visionary director Robert Wilson joins the world-renowned Berliner Ensemble for its New York debut in a bold new production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera -- a seminal work of 20th-century music theater.
Presented at BAM in its US premiere, Wilson's production recasts the story of Peachum, Polly, and Macheath in a bewitching setting informed equally by the striking designs of German Expressionist cinema and the shattering, seductive world of Weimar-era cabaret.
October 5, 2011: I mean as cold as a body on a mortuary table. The first real chill of autumn hit New York with the arrival of Robert Wilson’s frost-bitten interpretation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “Threepenny Opera,” which opened on Tuesday night at the Howard Gilman Opera House of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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