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Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera poster

Movie

Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera

1963 1h 34m Released

Music

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..

Cast

R Roger Jerome The Beggar D David Hartley The Manager of the Company B Brian Handley The Stage Manager/Slippery D David Kelly Peachum B Bernard Dickerson Filch/Wat Dreary A Anna Pollak Mrs. Peachum