Opera review: The Threepenny Opera, Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Festival
The Threepenny Opera, directed by Barrie Kosky, as part of the Adelaide Festival, offered searing satire and a rage against capitalism wrapped up in a love story.
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The Threepenny Opera, directed by Barrie Kosky, as part of the Adelaide Festival, offered searing satire and a rage against capitalism wrapped up in a love story.
It’s the Edinburgh International Festival, and Barrie’s back in town. Once, Edinburgh was pretty much the only place that you could see Barrie Kosky directing in the UK; there was a satisfyingly transgressive thrill about an opera director whose priorities were so self-evidently about the whole art form that he’d happily stage Monteverdi as a
Gabriel Schneider plays Macheath with swagger in Barrie Kosky’s dazzling Berliner Ensemble production