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    The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed...
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    John Gay (category English opera librettists)
    and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain...
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  • The Beggar's Opera is a 1953 British historical musical film, a Technicolor adaptation of John Gay's 1728 ballad opera of the same name. The film, directed...
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    of the tunes from this anthology were recycled in The Beggar's Opera. After the success of The Beggar's Opera, many similar pieces were staged. The actor...
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  • Beggars Opera was a Scottish progressive rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 1969 by guitarist Ricky Gardiner (born 31 August 1948, Edinburgh...
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    Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill...
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    both in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), its sequel Polly (1777), and 150 years later in Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera (1928). Macheath made...
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  • David Caves (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    variety of stage productions, including The Beggar’s Opera at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and The Changeling at the Southwark Playhouse. Caves was educated...
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    Ballad (redirect from The ballad)
    The Threepenny Opera was a reworking of The Beggar's Opera, setting a similar story with the same characters, and containing much of the same satirical...
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    Imelda Staunton (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    (2013), and Gypsy (2016). She was also Olivier-nominated for The Beggar's Opera (1982), The Wizard of Oz (1988), Uncle Vanya (1988), Guys and Dolls (1997)...
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  • Dorothy Tutin (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    Earnest (1952), The Beggar's Opera (1953), A Tale of Two Cities (1958), Savage Messiah (1972) and The Shooting Party (1985). An obituary in The Daily Telegraph...
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    Yvonne Furneaux (category French expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    of The Beggar's Opera, the adventure films The Master of Ballantrae and The Dark Avenger, and the mystery film The House of the Arrow. She played the female...
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  • Alan Ayckbourn. The story follows a young widower, Guy Jones, as he joins an amateur operatic society that is putting on The Beggar's Opera. He rapidly progresses...
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    a 1968 production of the Beggar's Opera in London, in which both were praised for their portrayals. After achieving notice in the role of James Onedin...
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  • ballad opera with text by John Gay and music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is a sequel to Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Due to censorship, the opera was not...
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    Matthew Macfadyen (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    "Au théâtre : The Beggar's Opera". Archived from the original on 20 September 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2009. "Au théâtre : One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"...
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  • productions. In 1982, she played Jenny Driver in A Beggar's Opera at the National Theatre having been part of the original cast of its highly successful production...
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  • prominent operas. The early 18th century was dominated by the operas of George Frideric Handel, while other important works include Pepusch's The Beggar's Opera...
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    Lavinia Fenton (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    of the drama be more popular". It was in John Gay's Beggar's Opera, as Polly Peachum, that Miss Fenton made her greatest success; she debuted the role...
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  • Lillibullero (category Songs of the American Civil War)
    John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, which first premiered in 1728, using popular folk tunes for its score. Here, the lyrics are: The Modes of the Court so common...
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    Frederic Austin (category Honorary members of the Royal Philharmonic Society)
    composer in the period 1905–30. He is perhaps best remembered for his arrangement of Johann Pepusch's music for a 1920 production of The Beggar's Opera by John...
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    Jenna Russell (category English soap opera actresses)
    and performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) for the first portion of her career. Plays there included The Beggar's Opera as Lucy Lockit in April...
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    John Caird (director) (category English opera librettists)
    production at the Swan was his own new version of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera with music composed by Ilona Sekacz. Caird's other productions at the RSC included...
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  • composer Thomas Arne. Arne had composed the song for a 1777 production of The Beggar's Opera in London. The a- is an archaic intensifying prefix; compare...
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  • to the second Wit and Mirth one appears in George Farquhar's 1706 play The Recruiting Officer. A further version appears in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera...
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    David Ogden Stiers (category Deaths from bladder cancer in the United States)
    members of the City Center Acting Company. Stiers appeared in many Acting Company productions including The Three Sisters and The Beggar's Opera. Stiers...
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  • 1728 in music (section Opera)
    Mariani Johann Christoph Pepusch – The Beggar's Opera Leonardo Vinci Catone in Utica Didone Abandonnata Medo The Beggar's Opera opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields...
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    Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), that included lyrics written to the tunes of popular songs of the day (often spoofing opera), and later the developing...
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  • A Chorus of Disapproval (film) (category Films about opera)
    Alexandra Pigg. The story follows a young widower, Guy Jones, as he joins an amateur operatic society that is putting on The Beggar's Opera. He rapidly progresses...
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    being "no more with child than the judge that tried [her]". John Gay's The Beggar's Opera includes a scene where the character Filch picks up income...
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