Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera
movie
Released February 28, 1963
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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
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Roger Jerome
as
The Beggar
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David Hartley
as
The Manager of the Company/Mat of the Mint
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Brian Handley
as
The Stage Manager/Slippery Sam
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David Kelly
as
Peachum
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Bernard Dickerson
as
Filch/Wat Dreary
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Anna Pollak
as
Mrs. Peachum
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Janet Baker
as
Polly Peachum
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Kenneth McKellar
as
Captain Macheath
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Bryan Drake
as
Lockit
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Heather Harper
as
Lucy Lockit
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Edith Coates
as
Mrs. Trapes
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Joan Edwards
as
Jenny Diver
