Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera (1963)

ALL 02/28/1963 (en) Music 94 Min
  • Release
    02/28/1963
  • Production
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  • Original title
    Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera
  • Original language
    en
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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..

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  1. Roger Jerome

    The Beggar

  2. David Hartley

    The Manager of the Company/Mat of the Mint

  3. Brian Handley

    The Stage Manager/Slippery Sam

  4. David Kelly

    Peachum

  5. Bernard Dickerson

    Filch/Wat Dreary

  6. Anna Pollak

    Mrs. Peachum

  7. Janet Baker

    Polly Peachum

  8. Kenneth McKellar

    Captain Macheath

  9. Bryan Drake

    Lockit

  10. Heather Harper

    Lucy Lockit

  11. Edith Coates

    Mrs. Trapes

  12. Joan Edwards

    Jenny Diver

  13. Philip May

    Ben Budge

  14. Jack Irons

    Tom Tipple

  15. John Gibbs

    Crook-finger'd Jack

  16. Andrew Snarski

    Harry Paddington

  17. Patricia Brigenshaw

    Mrs. Coaxer

  18. Sally Langford

    Dolly Trull

  19. Carolyn Maia

    Mrs. Vixen

  20. Angela Jenkins

    Betty Doxy

  21. Joan Clarkson

    Mrs Slammekin

  22. Alice Hynd

    Suky Tawdry

  23. Shelia Amit

    Molly Brazen

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 23 , Crews : 5

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Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera (1963) 94 Min

ALL 02/28/1963 (en)
Music
  • Release 02/28/1963
  • Production
  • Original title Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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..

  1. Charles R. Rogers

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer