The ballad opera is a genre of English comic opera stage play that originated in the early 18th century, and continued to develop over the following century...

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally...

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. Although...

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...

Gaetano Donizetti. Similar foreign genres such as French opéra comique, English ballad opera, Spanish zarzuela or German Singspiel differed as well in...

"tear-jerkers" or "drawing-room ballads", they were generally sentimental, narrative, strophic songs published separately or as part of an opera, descendants perhaps...

exceptions were ballad operas, such as John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), musical burlesques, European operettas, and late Victorian era light operas, notably...

Wisdom, or The Virgin Unmasked, A Farce (1734), ballad opera Don Quixote in England (1734), ballad opera The Miser (1735), incidental music by Thomas Arne...

the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum...

exceptions before 1800 can be found in Purcell's works, Handel's first operas, ballad opera and Singspiel of the 18th century, etc. Just as with literature and...

singspiel, Viennese operetta, Spanish zarzuela, Russian comic opera, English ballad and Savoy opera, North American operetta and musical comedy. In late 17th-century...

following the example of ballad opera, the words of the songs were written to popular music; later burlesques mixed the music of opera, operetta, music hall...

now regarded as a genre of opera. It is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias which were often...

from popular tunes. In this respect such afterpieces anticipate the ballad operas of the 18th century. At the same time, the French masque was gaining...

a 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...

comic operas were produced that parodied popular songs of the time by performing them with modified lyrics. Comédie en vaudevilles and ballad operas are...

work. Victorian burlesque is one of several forms of burlesque. Like ballad opera, burlesques featured musical scores drawing on a wide range of music...

that evolved over several centuries through the 18th century when the Ballad Opera and pantomime emerged in England and its colonies as the most popular...

fashions and practices and sometimes attempting, as in the creation of ballad opera, to produce an indigenous tradition. However, arguably the most significant...

Beggar's Opera (Johann Christoph Pepusch). A satire of Italian opera seria based on a play by John Gay, the ballad opera format of The Beggar's Opera has proved...

albums and touring folk clubs and concert halls. He is noted for his ballad-opera The Transports, and has been acknowledged as a major influence by performers...

He was an important innovator and contributor in the evolution of the ballad opera. D'Urfey was born in Devonshire and began his professional life as a...

attached to the church, was opened in March 2012. La Guida di Bragia, a Ballad Opera for the Marionette Theatre (around 1850) "Miss Jones", comic song (1862)...

dance Ballad opera Cabaret Café-chantant Café-théâtre Comédie-ballet Comedy club Light music Music hall Musical theatre Opéra bouffe Opéra bouffon Opera buffa...

romantic ballad opera in four acts The raven or the fraternal test (Ravnen eller Broderprøven) (1832), Schubothske Boghandel, Copenhagen, magic opera in three...

early operas, however, failed to catch the imagination of the Spanish public. It was not until the increasing popularity of such genres as ballad opera and...

Opéra bouffe (French pronunciation: [ɔpeʁa buf], plural: opéras bouffes) is a genre of mid- to late 19th-century French operetta, closely associated with...

This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first commonly...

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Published by Boosey & Hawkes. The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43: Ballad opera, 108'. Libretto after the ballad opera by John Gay. Premiered on 24 May 1948 at the...