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The Beggar's Opera (título original en inglés; en español se ha traducido como La ópera del mendigo y también La ópera del vagabundo) es una ópera de baladas en un prólogo y tres actos, con libreto en inglés de John Gay.
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 plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today.
13 de abr. de 2008 · In The Beggar’s Opera no one is in the height of fashion. Macheath and certain Ladies of the Town alone “keep Company with Lords and Gentlemen,” and even then there must have been apparent a distinction. Macheath is unaltered. Here it was essential to keep to tradition. Macheath in a blue coat is unthinkable.
The Beggar’s Opera, a ballad opera in three acts by John Gay, performed at Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, London, in 1728 and published in the same year. The work combines comedy and political satire in prose interspersed with songs set to contemporary and traditional English, Irish, Scottish, and French tunes.
John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera follows a band of hard-drinking, double-crossing thieves, rogues, and sex workers in the criminal underworld of 1720s London. The play centers on crime kingpin Peachum ’s quest to exact revenge on Macheath, a womanizing highwayman who has secretly married Peachum’s daughter, Polly.
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The Beggar's Opera es una ópera de baladas en un prólogo y tres actos, con libreto en inglés de John Gay. La música, probablemente, es un arreglo de Johann Christoph Pepusch . Se estrenó en el Teatro Lincoln's Inn Field de Londres el 29 de enero de 1728.
