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The Beggar\u0027s opera

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

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Additional authors
  1. Gay, John, 1685-1732
  2. Daltrey, Roger
  3. Hoskins, Bob
  4. Crowden, Graham
  5. Johns, Stratford
  6. Routledge, Patricia
  7. Hall, Carol
  8. Miller, Jonathan
  9. Barlow, Jeremy.
  10. Gardiner, John Eliot.
  11. English Baroque Soloists, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
  12. British Broadcasting Corporation.
  13. RM Arts (Firm)
Description
  1. 1 videocassette (135 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in. VHS.
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. Ballad operas
  2. Feature films
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Cataloged from credits and cassette container.
  2. Ballad opera in three acts by John Gay.
  3. Sung in English.
  4. "A BBC production in association with RM Arts."
  5. "BEG 01.
Audience (note)
  1. General.