Film

Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera 1963

94 min 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..

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Cast

  • 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

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