#mackie messer

[edgar-moser-blog]

Caterina Valente - Mackie Messer 1969

[ghoulfool]

*rewatches the Threepenny Opera irl*

Me: better watch more adaptions…

And I Ooh- ✨😳

[sbfairywren]

A week ago, I went and saw my first opera. It was very good to the extent that it has taken over my music listening and made me start learning german again.

Ja, der Haifisch, sehr der hat Zähne!

Poor Mackie Messer... At least he has a £10,000 pension and is now a member of royalty and definitely got rescued.

[knistelfitz]

Die Dreigroschenoper - Die Moritat von Mackie Messer (akustisches Cover ...

[aqueervenus]

“I Vish I Ver Mackie Messer’s Girl” 2023

[weaversweek]

"Mack the knife" - Bobby Darin

1959 Music: Kurt Weill; lyric: Bertolt Brecht, translated by Marc Blitzenstein

Number four in Let's Do It, my personal fifty favourite singles from 1954-76. Gets the Elf, a bonus 11th mark.

Die Dreigroschenoper is a tale of Macheath "Mackie" Messer, a knife-wielding criminal of the London underworld. He's a complete anti-hero, saved from public execution by a deus ex machina. The show's overture is "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer", sung in the production by a street singer before Mackie appears on stage.

The show - combining elements of opera, musical, and a jazz performance - and song were a huge success in 1920s Germany, where Weill and Brecht became heroes of the left. Their worldview is reflected in the piece: it portrays a capitalist scheme within the world of beggars, demonstrates the themes of estrangement and self-contradictory gesture.

Translated into English, The Threeppeny Opera flopped on Broadway in 1933. German culture fell out of fashion in the following years, and nobody tried again until an off-Broadway revival in 1954. For the opening number, Marc Blitzenstein took liberties with the text, removing some of Mackie's gorier crimes entirely, and adding a new verse to introduce the women in his play.

A hit show of 1954 will spawn hit singles, and Louis Armstrong's version is one of the strongest swing jazz versions. For this list, I'm going with Bobby Darin's interpretation, recorded for his 1958 standards album That's All. Darin had already featured "Mack the knife" in his live act, and approached the song with an extra bounce and verve, perhaps dulling some of the fear Mackie's meant to strike into our heart.

For me, the highlight is the increasing tone of the song. Darin goes up by a semitone in every verse, spiralling into excitement, racheting up the fear and the tension with every turn.

Bobby Darin had already established his credentials as a singer, "Splish splash" and "Dream lover" helped establish a lighter brand of rock and roll music, subsequently known as "bubblegum pop". Ill health ended his life in 1973.

[lorenzlund]

First cut is the deepest Festival2!

Schrieb u.a. die 'Moritat von/an Mackie Messer' ('Dreigroschen-Opa/Oper')

P(r)o-... . das 'maennliche Fass'.

,So don't go breakin' my hart!!' 'Bye-bye und Winke-Winke!'

... und Warmes! *Koerperwaerme 'Eiskalt erwischt!' /erfrischt! 'Auf ganz eiskalte Tour!'

'Bye! Winke Winke!'

[mudwerks]

(via Die Moritat von Mackie Messer - Bertolt Brecht (1929)

[lafcadiosadventures]

balzac 🤝 brecht 🤝 john gay probably

[medicinemane]

Call me Mackie the way I kill people with a knife

[ghoulfool]

Mackie Messer <33

[maarteroba]

De Bertolt Brecht a Pedro Navaja

En 1928 se entrenaba la Opera de los tres centavos (Die Dreigroschenoper) una obra teatral de Bertolt Brecht con música de Kurt Weill. Entre sus canciones destacó una: Die Moritat1 von Mackie Messer en ella presentaba a uno de los personajes principales de la obra, Mackie Messer, que más tarde será conocido en la versión inglesa como Mack the Knife (Mack el cuchillo). La canción cuenta los…

[knistelfitz]

Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht - Die Moritat von Mackie Messer ("Dreigroschen...

[realmoftheacornking]

An 'nem schonen blauen Sonntag

On a beautiful blue Sunday...

[citizenscreen]

Louis Armstrong and Lotte Lenya recording “Moritat von Mackie Messer (Mack the Knife)” in 1956, from Kurt Weill’s "The Three Penny Opera.”