Since none of the gang members can provide fitting entertainment, Polly does it herself ( Seeräuberjenny). No vows are exchanged, but Polly is satisfied, and everyone sits down to a banquet. The scene shifts to an empty stable where Macheath is about to marry Polly, as soon as his gang has stolen and brought all the necessary food and furnishings ( Hochzeitslied). Act IĪct I begins in the shop of Jonathan Peachum ( Morgenchoral des Peachum), who controls London’s beggars, equipping and training them in return for a cut of their “earnings.” He enrolls a new beggar with the help of his wife, after which they notice that their grown daughter Polly did not come home the previous night ( Anstatt-dass Song). The setting is a fair in Soho (London), just before Queen Victoria’s coronation. After the overture, the Street Singer comes onstage with a barrel organ and sings of the notorious bandit and womanizer Macheath, Mack the Knife ( Moritat von Mackie Messer).
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