The Beggar's Opera
(1728)Ballad opera in three acts after the version of Johann Christoph Pepusch and John Gay, revised and edited by Frederic Austin (1920)
Duration: 105'
Music Text
Text by John Gay (E)
Scoring
S,2M,2A,T,Bar,BBar,B; chorus
fl.ob-clavicembalo(hpd)-strings; optional cl.bn
Abbreviations (PDF)
Opera
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Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Availability
World premiere of version
05/06/1920
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London
Nigel Playfair, director / unknown / Eugene Goossens
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