The Beggar's Opera (1953) | |
| Director(s) | Peter Brook |
| Producer(s) | Laurence Olivier, Herbert Wilcox |
| Top Genres | Crime, Historical, Musical |
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The Beggar's Opera (1953) was a Crime - Historical Film directed by Peter Brook and produced by Laurence Olivier and Herbert Wilcox.
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The Beggar:
What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?
Captain MacHeath: Dolly Trull!
Dolly Trull: Dear Captain, I never thought you'd have the imudence to remember me.
Captain MacHeath: Kiss me, you slut!
[They kiss]
Captain MacHeath: Are you as amorous as ever? I bid you're always so taken up with stealing hearts you don't allow yourself time to steal anything else.
Captain MacHeath: [Hearing a woman singing] Women!... I love the sex!... and a man who loves money might as well be contented with one guinea... as I with one woman.
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Captain MacHeath: Dolly Trull!
Dolly Trull: Dear Captain, I never thought you'd have the imudence to remember me.
Captain MacHeath: Kiss me, you slut!
[They kiss]
Captain MacHeath: Are you as amorous as ever? I bid you're always so taken up with stealing hearts you don't allow yourself time to steal anything else.
Captain MacHeath: [Hearing a woman singing] Women!... I love the sex!... and a man who loves money might as well be contented with one guinea... as I with one woman.
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Facts about
"The Beggar's Opera" is a so-called ballad opera popular during the early 18th Century, which used the music of popular folk songs, ballads, and church hymns set to new lyrics to satirize social customs, mores, and especially Italian opera. It copied the 3 act Italian operatic format rather than the then custom of 5 acts.
A sequel entitled "Polly" was written by Gay in 1729, with Dolly and MacHeath as West Indian pirates, but was considered too controversial and banned for 50 years.
The genesis of this 1728 opera came from Jonathan Swift, who wrote to Alexander Pope in 1716 asking "...what think you, of a Newgate pastoral among the thieves and whores there?" Gay, who was a friend of both, took up the idea.
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A sequel entitled "Polly" was written by Gay in 1729, with Dolly and MacHeath as West Indian pirates, but was considered too controversial and banned for 50 years.
The genesis of this 1728 opera came from Jonathan Swift, who wrote to Alexander Pope in 1716 asking "...what think you, of a Newgate pastoral among the thieves and whores there?" Gay, who was a friend of both, took up the idea.
read more facts about The Beggar's Opera...
