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Schilderij gebaseerd op The Beggar's Opera, Scene V, William Hogarth, ca. 1728. The Beggar's Opera is een satirisch toneelstuk van John Gay, deels op muziek gezet door Christopher Pepusch.. The Beggar's Opera (De opera van de bedelaar) was een van de populairste toneelstukken van de 18de eeuw, en is verschillende keren heropgevoerd door de eeuwen heen; het werd eveneens bewerkt door Bertolt ...
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. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the ...
For well over 250 years, The Beggar's Opera's explicit and implicit commentary on operatic forms and conventions has generated a steady stream of criticism detailing the work's purportedly censorious treatment of contemporary Italian opera. In fact, Italian opera has become a critical hobby-horse, eclipsing other musico-dramatic inquiry into Gay's work. Only two critics—the most recent fully ...
The Beggar's Opera es una película dirigida por Peter Brook con Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Stuart Burge .... Año: 1953. Título original: The Beggar's Opera. Sinopsis: La historia gira alrededor del capitán MacHeath, un salteador de caminos, y su amor por demasiadas mujeres hermosas. Traicionado por Jenny y Sukey, dos ex amantes, y liberado temporalmente por otras ...
Tiggarens opera eller Tiggaroperan (engelska: The Beggar's Opera) är en satirisk s.k. balladopera i tre akter från 1728 med musik samlad och arrangerad av Johann Christoph Pepusch. Libretto av John Gay .
The Beggar’s Opera was England’s longest-running production of its time, with 62 performances given consecutively in 1728. About two hundred years later, it was revived for over 1,400 performances. A popular trend in the early 1700s was to satirize Italian opera, which is exactly what The Beggar’s Opera does, touching on poverty, injustice, politics, and above all, corruption.
Analysis. Gay introduced a wildly new theatrical form in 1728 with The Beggar's Opera. He minted with this play a style which would come to be known as “ballad opera,” a comedy interlaced with songs whose melodies were those of well-known ballad airs, rather than melodies composed specifically for the play.
