Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Ali McGregor

Lady in Grey

Kurt Kansley

Mr Truppo (The Governor)

Richard Pyros

Brother Jackson

Emily Burke

Sister Mary

Olivia Cranwell

Jane

Stage director

Matthew Lutton

Conductor

Phoebe Briggs

Lighting designer

Paul Jackson

Costume designer

Marg Horwell

Set designer

Victorian Opera

Sound designer

Sam Moxham

Baritone

Adam Murphy

Bill Cracker

Euan Fistrovic Doidge

Sam Worlitzer

Soprano

Lucy Maunder

Lilian Holiday

Hamish Johnston

Jimmy Dexter

Ben Grant

Bob Marker

RAS-SAMUEL WELDA'ABZGI

Johnny Flint

Jennifer Vuletic

Major Stone

Orchestra

Orchestra Victorian Opera Chamber Ensemble

English

Happy End

Southbank

Australia

Arts Centre Melbourne

Playhouse

Happy End Weill

Public

Approved

Premiering a year after their landmark hit The Threepenny Opera, Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann’s anti-capitalist musical comedy tells the unlikely love story of gangster Bill Cracker and Salvation Army Lieutenant Lillian Holiday. Happy End roars with Weill’s musical genius and charismatic jazz-influenced style, boasting some of Weill and Brecht’s most iconic songs. 

The first of Victorian Opera’s triptych of Weill’s musicals, this new production reunites director Matthew Lutton and musical director Phoebe Briggs, following their triumphant 2017 collaboration on Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs’ The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets.

Witness a remarkable ensemble in this rarely staged gem of the 20th century.

Happy End by Weill, From (2022/2022), Directed by Matthew Lutton,, Conductor Phoebe Briggs, Arts Centre Melbourne, Southbank, Australia

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