“Barbara’s Song” from Brecht and Weill’s *The Threepenny Opera* is famously sung by Lucy Brown — Mack the Knife’s sharp, jilted ex. In this piece, Lucy explains her romantic philosophy with sly humor: she always said “no” to suitors until someone like Mack swept past her defenses and turned resistance into surrender. I loved recording this with City Lyric Opera during the pandemic. On the surface, it’s a cheeky cabaret number, but Brecht and Weill are doing far more — skewering bourgeois moralit

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