Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera

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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..

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Diễn viên: Roger Jerome, David Hartley, Brian Handley, David Kelly, Bernard Dickerson, Anna Pollak, Janet Baker, Kenneth McKellar, Bryan Drake, Heather Harper, Edith Coates, Joan Edwards, Philip May