Overview
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..
Cast
The Beggar
The Manager of the Company/Mat of the Mint
The Stage Manager/Slippery Sam
Peachum
Filch/Wat Dreary
Mrs. Peachum
Polly Peachum
Captain Macheath
Lockit
Lucy Lockit
Mrs. Trapes
Jenny Diver
