Movie·1963·1h 34m

Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera

Name: Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera
Genre: Music
Released: 1963-02-28
Cast: Roger Jerome, David Hartley, Brian Handley, David Kelly, Bernard Dickerson

Music

Synopsis

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..