Seerauber jenny lotte lenya biography
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Pirate Jenny
Song composed by Kurt Weill
"Pirate Jenny" (German: "Seeräuber-Jenny") is a well-known song from The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. The English lyrics are by Marc Blitzstein. It is one of the best known songs in the opera, after "Mack the Knife".
Content and context
[edit]The song depicts Low-Dive Jenny (German: Spelunken-Jenny), a character borrowed from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and he in turn based that character on the historical person of Jenny Diver (–).[1] Low-Dive Jenny is a lowly maid at a "crummy old hotel", imagining avenging herself for the contempt she endures from the townspeople. A pirate ship – with eight sails, and with 50 cannons[2] – enters the harbor, fires on the city and flattens every building except the hotel. The pirates come ashore, chain up all the townspeople, and present them to Jenny, who orders the pirates to kill them all. She then sails away with the pirates.
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Lotte Lenya(Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer)
Lotte Lenya began her acting and dancing career under her birth name of Karoline Blamauer in Zurich. There she shared the stage with Elisabeth Bergner. In she went to Berlin, and the same year she took the pseudonym Lotte Lenya. In she met the composer Kurt Weill – an encounter that was to prove decisive for her professional and private life in the future. Weill recognised her great singing talent. As Lenya had not had a classical singing education, he wrote the roles to be tailored for her. The result was unusual, very personal parts that made Lotte Lenya famous and which are still associated with her voice even today. One well-known example of this is Pirate Jenny in the Threepenny Opera from – a piece that Weill created together with the writer Bertolt Brecht.
Aside from the professional success that Lenya had in the Weill-Brecht productions, she found in Weill a companion whom she accompanied – often in difficult circumst
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Lenya, lotteri (–)
Austrian-born actress and singer who originated the role of Jenny in the Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht musical, The Threepenny Opera.Name variations: Lotte Lenja. Born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer on October 18, , in Vienna, Austria; died on November 27, , in New York; daughter of Franz Blamauer and Johanna Blamauer; married Kurt Julian Weill (a composer), on January 28, (died April 3, ); married George Davis (a magazine editor and journalist), on July 7, (died November 25, ); married Russell Detwiler, in (died ); married Richard Siemanowski, in (divorced ); children: none.
Films:
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera, German, ); The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (); From Russia with Love (); The Appointment (); Semi-Tough ().
In the opening-night audience at a much anticipated revival of the Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht musical The Threepenny Opera at New York's Lincoln Center, a thin, elderly woman, her strong features accentuated by a