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John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera is a uniquely important and remarkable piece of British theatre: the first of a new genre, the ballad opera, in 1728, that was killed off with the advent of the Lord ...
The work is also a satire on the opera-going tradition of the time: instead of using the grandiose characters of Handelian opera – kings, princes magicians - Gay has made the entire cast of characters ...
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 ...
Who would have thought an 18th-century comic opera, rooted in the political climate and musical tastes of its time, would still be going strong today, produced by a South African company whose ...
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