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

Özet

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..

Oyuncular

• Roger Jerome

  The Beggar

• David Hartley

  The Manager of the Company/Mat of the Mint

• Brian Handley

  The Stage Manager/Slippery Sam

• David Kelly

  Peachum

• Bernard Dickerson

  Filch/Wat Dreary

• Anna Pollak

  Mrs. Peachum

• Janet Baker

  Polly Peachum

• Kenneth McKellar

  Captain Macheath

• Bryan Drake

  Lockit

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  Heather Harper

  Lucy Lockit

• Edith Coates

  Mrs. Trapes

• Joan Edwards

  Jenny Diver

Ekip

Yönetmen

Charles R. Rogers

Müzik

Benjamin Britten