Film

Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera

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1h 34m

1963

Synopsis

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..

Director

Charles R. Rogers

Music

Cast & Crew

Roger Jerome

as The Beggar

David Hartley

as The Manager of the Company/Mat of the Mint

Brian Handley

as The Stage Manager/Slippery Sam

David Kelly

as Peachum

Bernard Dickerson

as Filch/Wat Dreary

Anna Pollak

as Mrs. Peachum

Janet Baker

as Polly Peachum

Kenneth McKellar

as Captain Macheath

Bryan Drake

as Lockit

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