Die Dreigroschenoper
By: Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht
Contributors: Lenya, Lotte; Brückner-Rüggeberg, Wilhelm; Koczian, Johanna v.; Trenk-Trebitsch, Willy; Hesterberg, Trude; Schellow, Erich; Neuss, Wolfgang
Series: Columbia masterworks
Published: 1958
Language: ger
Format: [sound recording]
Subjects: Operas
Work titles: Dreigroschenoper
Notes: First complete recording, including all the verses of the songs, the Ballad of dependency (omitted from the published score) and Lucy's aria.  The composer's original instrumentation is restored.

Program notes by Goddard Lieberson, Hans W. Heinsheimer, and David Drew, synopsis by Guy Stern, and libretto, with English translation by Guy Stern (35 p.) laid in container.

Automatic sequence.

Starring Lotte Lenya as Jenny, with supporting soloists, chorus, and orchestra; Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg, conductor.

Recorded in the Afifa studio, Tempelhof, Berlin, Jan. 11-15, 1958.