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The Beggar\u0027s opera

Title
The Beggar\u0027s opera / by John Gay ; music by Jeremy Barlow and John Eliot Gardiner ; produced and directed by Jonathan Miller.
Publication
[Chicago?] : Home Vision, [1983], ©1983.

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  • Gay, John, 1685-1732
  • Daltrey, Roger
  • Hoskins, Bob
  • Crowden, Graham
  • Johns, Stratford
  • Routledge, Patricia
  • Hall, Carol
  • Miller, Jonathan
  • Barlow, Jeremy.
  • Gardiner, John Eliot.
  • English Baroque Soloists, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
  • British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • RM Arts (Firm)
Description
1 videocassette (135 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in. VHS.
Summary
Welcome to Hogarth\u0027s London -- a world of thievery, lechery, deceit and corruption. John Gay wrote this ballad opera in 1728 at the suggestion of Jonathan Swift, who thought that "A Newgate pastoral might make a pretty sort of thing". Indeed, it seemed to suit the English taste of the time better than Handel\u0027s heroic operas. A special studio production containing all sixty-nine 18th century ballads.
Subjects
Note
  • Cataloged from credits and cassette container.
  • Ballad opera in three acts by John Gay.
  • Sung in English.
  • "A BBC production in association with RM Arts."
  • "BEG 01.
Audience (note)
  • General.
OCLC
  • 28753572
  • ocm28753572
  • SCSB-2986250
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Columbia University Libraries