The music in this has been fiddled about with. "Let us take the road" should be to the tune of a march in Handel's "Rinaldo" but it's been slightly reset. Is this Britten's version?
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This is a great theater piece, when done right. Not really an Opera at all, in the traditional sense. Originally created in England during the 1600's (I think), the original play had no music. It is only when they discovered that if they called it an "Opera", they wouldn't have to pay taxes on it. The King, it seems, had a fondness for Opera. They took popular songs of the day and merely changed the words to suit the story-line. Later, of course, someone turned it into Three Penny Opera.
Is that kenneth williams talking with Olivier?
Joeleole 1 year ago
@Joeleole Yes, it is. They should have called it "Carry on Macheath"...
ponto 1 year ago
@ponto It predates the Carry On films, though...
1981Marcus 1 year ago
@ponto Carry on Beggaring. At Tyburn: 'I love to see a man hung like that.'
'OOOOOO MATRON.'
Elcore 1 year ago
@ponto @ponto Carry on Beggaring. At Tyburn: 'I love to see a man hung like that.'
'OOOOOO MATRON.'
Elcore 1 year ago
@ponto Carry on Beggaring. At Tyburn: 'I love to see a man hung like that.'
'OOOOOO MATRON.'
Elcore 1 year ago
The music in this has been fiddled about with. "Let us take the road" should be to the tune of a march in Handel's "Rinaldo" but it's been slightly reset. Is this Britten's version?
belovedofarinna 1 year ago
@belovedofarinna No, it's not the Britten version. Arthur Bliss did the arrangements for this production.
ponto 1 year ago
I love this 18th century masterpiece.The beautiful lady in purple,was she also in The Master of Ballantrae with Errol Flynn?
Poldark3 2 years ago
Yes - good spotting! Yvonne Furneaux plays Jenny Diver in "Beggar's Opera" and Jessie Brown in "Master of Ballantrae".
ponto 2 years ago
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CubanCheGuevara 2 years ago
haha. you asked for it.
barbedheart 2 years ago
i might be doing this next year at my school/6th form.
sonicx666 2 years ago
I just made the pledges of my fraternity preform this for me.
vonpritz 3 years ago
This is a great theater piece, when done right. Not really an Opera at all, in the traditional sense. Originally created in England during the 1600's (I think), the original play had no music. It is only when they discovered that if they called it an "Opera", they wouldn't have to pay taxes on it. The King, it seems, had a fondness for Opera. They took popular songs of the day and merely changed the words to suit the story-line. Later, of course, someone turned it into Three Penny Opera.
CubanCheGuevara 3 years ago
that's not entirely accurate...
dernieremode 3 years ago 2
That's because this is not opera 'opera', this is a ballad opera which is quite different with the kind of opera you're talking about.
64crayons 2 years ago
WOOOOO im doing this in the school play and i have to sing these songs =D im harry paddington
deadlytom13 4 years ago