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Title:
The beggar's opera [videorecording] / by John Gay ; a BBC-TV production in association with RM Arts ; produced and directed by Jonathan Miller.

Call Number:
782.1 GAY

Publication Information :
California : Image Entertainment, [2000], c1983.

Physical Description:
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Creation/Production Credits:
Senior cameraman, Ron Green ; videotape editor, Dennis Collett ; music arrangement, Jeremy Barlow, John Eliot Gardiner ; choreography, Sally Gilpin.

Performer(s):
Roger Daltrey (MacHeath) ; Bob Hoskins (Beggar) ; Stratford Johns (Peachum) ; Patricia Routledge (Mrs. Peachum) ; Carol Hall (Polly Peachum) ; Peter Bayliss (Lockit) ; Rosemary Ashe (Lucy Lockit) ; Graham Crowden (The player) ; Gary Tibbs (Filch) ; English Baroque soloists ; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor.

Summary:
A ballad opera set among London's 18th century criminal classes, full of satirical jibes about corruption in high places.

Language:
Sung in English.

Subject Term:
Ballad operas Film and video adaptations.
Musical films.
Feature films.

Genre Subject Term:
DVDs.

Added Author:
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Miller, Jonathan, 1934-
Daltrey, Roger.
Hoskins, Bob.
Johns, Stratford.
Routledge, Patricia.
Hall, Carol.
Bayliss, Peter.
Ashe, Rosemary.
Crowden, Graham.
Tibbs, Gary.
Gardiner, John Eliot.
Barlow, Jeremy.

Added Author:
English Baroque Soloists.
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
RM Arts (Firm)
Image Entertainment (Firm)