I’m guessing that most people are at least somewhat familiar with Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper which exists in several English translations including, sadly, the most commonly encountered one; the heavily bowdlerised version used on Broadway, which is source of the awful version of “Mac the Knife” inflicted on an unsuspecting world by sundry crooners. There’s now a very interesting French version which has been recorded for CD
L’Opéra de Quat’sous
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