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Title

The Beggar's opera [videorecording] / Jonathan Miller; a BBC-TV production in association with RM Arts.

Publication

Chicago : Films Inc., 1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Miller, Jonathan, 1934-2019
• Gay, John, 1685-1732.

Description

1 videocassette (135 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

John Gay wrote this ballad opera in 1728 at the suggestion of his friend, the satirist Jonathan Swift. It is set in Hogarth's London, a world of thievery, lechery, deceit and corruption. Peachum is a fence for stolen goods who is happy to turn his employees in for a price. Lockit is an irrepressibly corrupt prison governor. Macheath is a dashing highwayman married to Polly Peachum but promised to Lucy Lockit. This production is true to the original and includes all sixty-nine eighteenth-century ballads.

Series Statement

(The compleat operagoer, no. 64.)

Subjects

• Operas
• Music

Note

• Sung in English.
• A ballad opera in three acts by John Gay.

Credits (note)

• Director, Jonathan Miller; music arranged by Jeremy Barlow and John Eliot Gardiner; choreographer, Sally Gilpin.

Performer (note)

• Roger Daltrey, Carol Hall, Bob Hoskins, Stratford Johns, Patricia Routledge, with the English Baroque Soloists.

ISBN

1561270768

Title

The Beggar's opera [videorecording] / Jonathan Miller; a BBC-TV production in association with RM Arts.

Imprint

Chicago : Films Inc., 1983.

Series

(The compleat operagoer, no. 64.)

Credits

Director, Jonathan Miller; music arranged by Jeremy Barlow and John Eliot Gardiner; choreographer, Sally Gilpin.

Cast

Roger Daltrey, Carol Hall, Bob Hoskins, Stratford Johns, Patricia Routledge, with the English Baroque Soloists.

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Added Author

Miller, Jonathan, 1934-2019, producer.

Miller, Jonathan, 1934-2019, television director.

Gay, John, 1685-1732.

Branch Call Number

VTH 712 B