The Beggar’s Opera – 12 March 2023
A new adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. The Beggar’s Opera is a ballad opera first performed in London in 1728. The work combines comedy and political satire in prose interspersed with songs set to traditional English, Irish, Scottish and French tunes. Peachum, a thief catcher, furious that his daughter Polly has married the […]