The Threepenny Opera

• Broadway Production (1933)
  New York, NY
• Theatre de Lys Revival (1954)
  New York, NY
• Off-Broadway Return Engagement (1955)
  New York, NY
• London Production (1956)
  London, England
• 1st National Tour (1960)
• 2nd National Tour (1961)
• Film Version (1963)
• New York City Opera Revival (1965)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1966)
  New York, NY
• London Revival (1972)
  London, England
• Lincoln Center Revival (1976)
  New York, NY
• Return Engagement (1977)
  New York, NY
• Royal National Theatre Production (1986)
  London, England
• Film Version (1989)
• Broadway Revival (1989)
  New York, NY
• Donmar Warehouse Revival (1994)
  London, England
• De Lys Revival Reunion Concert (2000)
  New York, NY
• Off-Broadway Revival (2003)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (2006)
  New York, NY
• BBC Radio Production (2009)
• Off-Broadway Revival (2014)
  New York, NY
• Royal National Theatre Production (2016)

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Moritat vom Mackie Messer
  • aka Ballad of Mack the Knife [no note]
  • aka Mack the Knife [no note]
  • aka Moritat [no note]
  • aka Moritat (Ballad of Mack the Knife) [TItle in program for A.C.T. production]
  • aka Prologue ? Street Crier's Ballad of Mackie the Knife [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka PROLOGUE: Ballad of Mack the Knife [no note]
  • aka Song of the Extraordinary Crimes of Mac the Knife [no note]
  • aka The Ballad of Mac the Knife [Title in published Manheim-Willett translation]
  • aka The Flick Knife Song [no note]
  • aka The Legend of Mackie Messer [no note]
  • aka The Moritat of Mackie the Knife [no note]
• Morgenchoral des Peachum
  • aka Morning Anthem [no note]
  • aka Mr. Jonathan Peachum's Morning Chorale [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka Mr. Peachum's Morning Hymn [no note]
  • aka Peachum's Morning Anthem [no note]
  • aka Peachum's Morning Hymn [no note]
  • aka Peachum's Morning Song [no note]
• Anstatt daß-Song
  • aka "No, They Can't" Song [no note]
  • aka Instead-Of Song [no note]
  • aka Kids Today [no note]
  • aka Mr. and Mrs. Peachum's 'Instead Of' Song [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka The 'Rather Than' Song [no note]
  • aka The I-for-One Song [no note]
  • aka Why-Can't-They Song [no note]
• Hochzeitslied
  • aka Gang Song [no note]
  • aka The Wedding Song [no note]
  • aka Wedding Song [no note]
  • aka Wedding Song for Polly and Macheath, by the Boys [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka Wedding Song for Poor People [no note]
  • aka Wedding Song for Poorer People [no note]
  • aka Wedding Song for the Less Well-Off [no note]
• Seeräuberjenny
  • aka Pirate Jenny [no note]
  • aka Pirate Jenny or Dreams of a Kitchen Maid [no note]
  • aka Pirate-Jenny or Dreams of a Kitchen Maid [no note]
  • aka Polly's Song of Jenny the Pirate [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka The Pirate Jenny [no note]
• Kanonen-Song
  • aka Army Song [no note]
  • aka Cannon Song [no note]
  • aka Duet in Canon, of Macheath and Brown [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka Soldiers' Song [no note]
  • aka Squaddies Song [no note]
  • aka The Cannon Song [no note]
  • aka The Soldiers' Song [no note]
  • aka The Song of the Heavy Cannon [no note]
• Liebeslied
  • aka Love Duet [no note]
  • aka Love Duet of Macheath and Polly [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka Love Song [no note]
  • aka Moon Over Soho [no note]
• Barbarasong
  • aka Barbara Song [no note]
  • aka Barbara-Song [no note]
  • aka In a Little Song Polly Gives Her Parents a Hint of Her Marriage to the Gangster Macheath [no note]
  • aka Lucy Song [no note]
  • aka Polly's Barbara Song [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka The 'No' Song [no note]
  • aka The Song of No and Yes [no note]
• Erstes Dreigroschenfinale
  • aka 1st THREEPENNY FINALE : The World Is Mean [no note]
  • aka 1st Threepenny Finale: The World Is Mean [no note]
  • aka Certain Things Make Our Life Impossible [no note]
  • aka Finale Act I: The Uncertainty of Human Conditions [no note]
  • aka First 3 Penny Finale [no note]
  • aka First Act Finale [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka First Finale [no note]
  • aka First Threepenny Finale [no note]
  • aka First Threepenny Finale: The World Is Mean [no note]
  • aka Life's a Bitch [no note]
  • aka On the Uncertainty of Human Circumstances [no note]
  • aka The Uncertainty of Human Conditions [no note]
  • aka The World is Hard [no note]
  • aka The World is Mean [no note]
• Melodram
  • aka Farewell Duet of Polly and Macheath [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka Farewell Song [no note]
  • aka Goodbye [no note]
  • aka Goodbye Song [no note]
  • aka Melodrama [no note]
• Pollys Lied
  • aka Melodrama & Polly's Song [no note]
  • aka Polly's Farewell Song [no note]
  • aka Polly's Song [no note]
• Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit
  • aka Ballad of Dependency [no note]
  • aka Ballad of Sexual Dependency [no note]
  • aka Ballad of the Prisoner of Sex [no note]
  • aka Sexual Slavery [no note]
  • aka The Ballad of Dependency [no note]
  • aka The Ballad of Sexual Dependency [no note]
  • aka The Ballad of Sexual Imperative [no note]
  • aka The Ballad of Sexual Obsession [no note]
  • aka The Ballad of Sexual Submissiveness [no note]
  • aka The Ballad of the Overwhelming Power of Sex [no note]
• Zuhälterballade
  • aka Ballad of Immoral Earnings [no note]
  • aka Ballad of the Fancy Man [no note]
  • aka Knocking Shop Tango [no note]
  • aka Pimp's Ballad (Tango) [no note]
  • aka Tango [no note]
  • aka Tango Ballad [no note]
  • aka Tango Ballad of Jenny, the Courtesan, and Macheath, Her Protector [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka Tango Ballade [no note]
  • aka Tango-Ballad [no note]
  • aka The Ballad of the Fancy Man [no note]
  • aka The Ballad of the Pimp [no note]
  • aka The Procurer's Ballad [no note]
• Ballade vom angenehmen Leben
  • aka Ballad of Good Living [no note]
  • aka Ballad of Gracious Living [no note]
  • aka Ballad of Living in Style [no note]
  • aka Ballad of the Easy Life [no note]
  • aka Ballad of the Easy Life [no note]
  • aka Easy Life [no note]
  • aka Macheath's Ballad of the Easy Life [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka The Ballad of Pleasant Living [no note]
  • aka The Ballad of the Easy Life [no note]
  • aka The Ballad of the Happy Life [no note]
  • aka The Easy Life [no note]
  • aka The Secret of Gracious Living [no note]
• Eifersuchtsduett
  • aka Jealousy Duet [no note]
  • aka Jealousy Duet of Lucy and Polly [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka The Jealousy Duet [no note]
• Zweites Dreigroschenfinale
  • aka 2nd THREEPENNY FINALE : How to Survive [no note]
  • aka 2nd Threepenny Finale: How to Survive [no note]
  • aka Act II Finale [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka Finale Act II: What Keeps Mankind Alive? [no note]
  • aka How Do Humans Live [no note]
  • aka How to Survive [no note]
  • aka Second 3 Penny Finale [no note]
  • aka Second Finale [no note]
  • aka Second Threepenny Finale [no note]
  • aka Second Threepenny Finale: How to Survive [no note]
  • aka What Keeps a Man Alive? [no note]
  • aka What Keeps Mankind Alive? [no note]
• Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens
  • aka Peachum Explains the Futility of Human Strivings [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka Solidarity Song [no note]
  • aka Song of Futility [no note]
  • aka Song of the Aimlessness of Life [no note]
  • aka Song of the Insufficiency of Human Endeavor [no note]
  • aka The Song About Inadequacy [no note]
  • aka The Song of Inadequacy of Human Striving [no note]
  • aka The Song of the Futility of All Human Endeavor [no note]
  • aka Useless Song [no note]
  • aka What's the Point? [no note]
• Salomonsong
  • aka Jenny's Song of Solomon [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka Solomon Song [no note]
  • aka Song of Solomon [no note]
  • aka The Socrates Song [no note]
  • aka The Song of Solomon [no note]
• Ruf aus der Gruft
  • aka A Call from the Grave [no note]
  • aka Call from the Grave [no note]
  • aka Cry from the Dungeon [no note]
  • aka Cry from the Grave [no note]
  • aka Inside the Tomb [no note]
  • aka Macheath's Cry From the Shadow of the Grave [Title on Vanguard recording]
• Grabschrift
  • aka Ballad in Which Macheath Asks Everyone for Forgiveness [no note]
  • aka Ballad in Which Macheath Begs All Men for Forgiveness [no note]
  • aka Ballad in Which Macheath Begs All Mens' Forgiveness [no note]
  • aka Ballad in which Macheath Begs Pardon of All [no note]
  • aka Death Message [no note]
  • aka Epitaph [no note]
  • aka Macheath's Letter From the Grave [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka Pardon Me [no note]
  • aka Testament [no note]
  • aka The Ballad in which Macheath asks Everyone's Forgiveness [no note]
• Drittes Dreigroschenfinale
  • aka 3rd THREEPENNY FINALE : The Mounted Messenger [no note]
  • aka 3rd Threepenny Finale: The Mounted Messenger [no note]
  • aka Act III Finale [no note]
  • aka Finale [no note]
  • aka Finale of The Three Penny Opera [Title on Vanguard recording]
  • aka The Arrival of the Mounted Messenger [no note]
  • aka The Mounted Messenger [no note]
  • aka The Riding Messenger [no note]
  • aka Third 3 Penny Finale [no note]
  • aka Third Finale [no note]
  • aka Third Threepenny Finale [no note]
  • aka Third Threepenny Finale: The Mounted Messenger [no note]

Cut prior to Berlin opening

• Anhang - Arie der Lucy
  • aka Lucy's Aria [no note]
• Fight About the Property
• Poor Mrs. Peachum

Added to 1954 revival

• The Bide-a-Wee in Soho

Status unknown

• March to the Gallows

Added to some later productions

• Ballad of the Drowned Girl
• For That's My Way

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Vanguard Studio Cast (May 1955)
  

  • Liane
  • Anny Felbermayer
  • Helge Roswaenge
  • Hedy Fassler
  • Alfred Jerger
• Columbia / Philips Recording (1958)
  

  • Wolfgang Neuss
  • Willy Trenk-Trebitsch
  • Trude Hesterburg
  • Erich Schellow
  • Johanna von Köczian
• Studio Cast (1963)
  

  • Stella Moray
  • Mike Sammes
  • John Huw Davies
• Studio Cast (November 1988)
  

  • René Kollo
  • Mario Adorf
  • Helga Dernesch
  • Ute Lemper
  • Milva

Based on The Beggar's Opera by John Gay (as translated to German by Elisabeth Hauptman)

The show was a hit in Berlin and its success spread throughout Europe, with 46 productions opening during the first year of the Berlin run. Within the next 5 years, there had been 130 productions worldwide with a total of over 10,000 performances and had been translated into 18 languages.

• The 3-Penny Opera (1933 Broadway title)
• The 3Penny Opera (alternate title)
• Die Luder-Oper (working title)
• Die Dreigroschen Oper (German film title)
• Die Dreigroschenoper (original German title)
• Gesindle (working title)
• Mack the Knife (film title)
• Scum (English translation of working title)
• The Beggar's Opera (source material)
• 3 Penny Opera (1989 Broadway revival title)