Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera (1963)
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A huge success at its first performance in 1728 John Gay's The Beggar's Opera satirized the conventions of Italian opera, using popular tunes to tell the story of rogues and criminals. With his distinctive musical arrangements at its heart, Britten's 1948 adaptation was a significant revision, amounting to a new twentieth-century opera. The BBC film, originally broadcast in 1963, feature a superb cast of English singers..
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Roger Jerome
The Beggar
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David Hartley
The Manager of the C...
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Brian Handley
The Stage Manager/Sl...
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David Kelly
Peachum
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Bernard Dickerson
Filch/Wat Dreary
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Anna Pollak
Mrs. Peachum
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Janet Baker
Polly Peachum
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Kenneth McKellar
Captain Macheath
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Bryan Drake
Lockit
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Heather Harper
Lucy Lockit
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Edith Coates
Mrs. Trapes
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Joan Edwards
Jenny Diver
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Philip May
Ben Budge
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Jack Irons
Tom Tipple
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John Gibbs
Crook-finger'd Jack