Weill, K - The Threepenny Opera

Scott Merrill, Martin Wolfson, Jo Sullivan, Lotte Lenya, Beatrice Arthur, Charlotte Rae, Gerald Price & George Tyne

Lotte Lenya (Jenny), Erich Schellow (Macheath), Willy Trenk-Trebitsch (Mr Peachum), Trude Hesterburg (Mrs Peachum), Johanna von Kecziân (Polly Peachum), Inge Wolffberg (Lucy) Arndt Chorus, Sender Freies Berlin Orchestra, Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggeberg

Max Raabe (Macheath), Sona MacDonald (Polly), Nina Hagen (Mrs Peachum), Timna Brauer (Jenny), Hannes Hellmann (Tiger Brown), HK Gruber (Mr Peachum) Ensemble Modern

Lotte Lenya • Kurt Gerron • Erika Helmke • Willi Trenk-Trebitsch • Erich Ponto Bertolt Brecht • Carola Neher, Lotte Lenya & The Three Admirals, Kurt Gerron • Rudolf Nelson, Marlene Dietrich, Curt Bois Ruth Lewis Band • Theo Mackeben & his Orchestra, Theo Mackeben & his Jazz Orchestra, Peter Kreuder & his Orchestra, Theo Mackeben & his Orchestra, Kurt Gerron & Orchestra

Lotte Lenya, Harald Paulsen, Theo MacKeben & Kurt Weill (piano) Ernst Busch & Otto Klemperer

RIAS Berlin Sinfonietta, John Mauceri

The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

Arthur Schroder, Carola Neher, Erika Helmke, Gerda Madsen, Harald Paulsen, Kurt Gerron Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Haller Revue Jazz Orchestra, Jean Lenoir Orchestra, Marek Weber and His Orchestra, Orchesterbegleitung, Pierre Chagnon Orchestra, Hans Schindler, Jean Lenoir, Lewis Ruth, Marek Weber, Otto Klemperer, Pierre Chagnon, Theo Mackeben

Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Eric Crees

Ute Lemper, René Kollo, Helga Dernesch & Milva RIAS Berlin Sinfonietta & Kammerchor, John Mauceri

Walter Raffeiner, Ulrike Steinsky, Gabriele Ramm, Jane Henschel, Peter Nikolaus Kante, Rolf Wollrad, Jolanta Teresa Kuznik, Reinhard Firchow Händel Collegium Köln, The König Ensemble Jan Latham-König

Gerald Price (narrator), Martin Wolfson (vocals), Charlotte Rae (vocals), John Astin (vocals), Joseph Beruh (vocals), Bernard Bogin (vocals), Paul Dooley (vocals), Lotte Lenya (vocals), Scott Merrill (vocals), George Tyne (vocals), Jo Sullivan Loesser (soprano), Beatrice Arthur (vocals), William Duell (vocals) Samuel Matlowsky

Dieter Brammer (voice), Franz Kutschera (voice), Anita Mey (voice), Karin Huebner (voice), Hans Korte (voice), Albert Hoermann (voice), Edith Teichmann (voice), Ursula Dirichs (voice), Oper Frankfurt, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Wolfgang Rennert

Doris Bierett, Trudeliese Schmidt, Ulrike Steinsky, Wolfgang Schmidt & Walter Raffeiner König-Ensemble & Kolner Rundfunkorchester, Jan Latham-König

Jonathan Peachum (C K Alexander), Samuel (Peachum’s Assistant) (Tony Azito), The Ballad Singer (Roy Brocksmith), Lucy Brown (Blair Brown), Matt (Ralph Drischell), Jake (William Duell), Jenny Towler (Ellen Greene), Walt (Max Gulack), Mac the Knife (Raul Julia), Polly Peachum (Caroline Kava), Smith (Glenn Kezer), A Constable (John Ridge), Tiger Brown (David Sabin), Jimmy (Robert Schlee), Ned (Paul Ukena, Jr), Messenger (Jack Eric Williams), Mrs Peachum (Elizabeth Wilson), Bob (K C Wilson), Charles Finch (Ed Zang), The Threepenny Orchestra, Stanley Silverman

Adele Addison (soprano), Nan Merriman (mezzo), Laurence Olivier (narrator), Irma Gonzales (soprano), Raoul Jobin (tenor), Nicola Moscona (bass) Boston Symphony Orchestra & New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein