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The anarcho-street opera band ‘The Tiger Lillies’ has drawn inspiration for their concept album TWO PENNY OPERA from the two successful works “The Beggar’s Opera” from 1726 and the “Threepenny Opera” by Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann that emerged 200 years later. In associative songs, they bring the lives, sufferings, and loves of the characters from the “Threepenny Opera” into focus.

Armin Petras (direction), Berit Jentzsch (choreography), and Miles Perkin (musical direction) have experience with the Tiger Lillies. The staging of the album “Lulu: A Murder Ballad” was performed on three stages in two cities over four years. In the interplay of music, dance, acting, stage, and costume, images are created for each song, with which the ensemble casts light: on the longings and romance of the young couple Mackie and Polly, on their criminal parents with dreams of a better life for their children, on the capitalist notions of success and happiness, on a Mackie who must face death, on moral decay and bourgeois aspirations, and the energies unleashed through lust, love, and passion. For this, the milieu of the London underworld is transposed into the world of the circus, of acrobats and tightrope walkers, of lion tamers and clowns.

The ensemble has practiced on all sorts of instruments, immersed themselves in acrobatics, juggling, clowning, and circus, warmed up their voices, and thus creates an ode to pop culture, a celebration of assertion and rock ’n’ roll, a spectacle of bizarre existences and their great and small feelings.


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