Lotte Lenya

About the artist

Lotte Lenya (October 18, 1898 – November 27, 1981), singer and actress, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria. She is best known for her performance as Jenny in Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, and some other Brecht-Weill plays. To a younger audience, she is known for her part as the villain Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love. As a child of working class Roman Catholic parents, Lenya wanted to be a dancer.

Top songs

1. Pirate Jenny
2. Moritat vom Mackie Messer from Die Dreigroschenoper
3. Alabama Song
4. So What? from Cabaret
5. Song from Mother Courage (as performed in Broadway show "Brecht on Brecht")
6. Pirate Jenny from The Threepenny Opera
7. Surabaya-Johnny
8. The Solomon Song from The Threepenny Opera (as performed in Broadway show "Brecht on Brecht")
9. Married from Cabaret
10. Moritat

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