Below you can find today's Composers Datebook, discussing Kurt Weill's Three-Penny Opera. Composers Datebook audio Weill's Three-penny Opera in Berlin On today's date in 1928, Kurt Weill's Three-Penny Opera debuted at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, a small, but opulent Baroque-style theater in Berlin. It must have seemed a rather ironic setting for Kurt Weill's "opera for beggars," whose cast members portrayed thieves, murderers, prostitutes and other low-lifes. The Three-Pe