The Beggar's Opera

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Painting based on The Beggar's Opera, Scene V, William Hogarth, c. 1728, in the Tate Britain

The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative. The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time.

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Annotated e-text of The Beggar's Opera with extens... Annotated e-text of The Beggar's Opera with extensive bibliography etext.lib.virginia.edu/.../parsed - Web

Vocal score used in 1920 Lyric Hammersmith revival Vocal score used in 1920 Lyric Hammersmith revival www.archive.org/details/beggarsoperaasit00austi - Web

Numerous photos and design drawings from The Begga... Numerous photos and design drawings from The Beggar's Opera digitalgallery.nypl.org/.../dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=141746&word= - Web

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