1. Introduction - 0:002. Overture - 2:033. Act 1. - 5:163. Act 2. - 51:293. Act 3. - 1:41:13Dir. Jeremy BarlowPerformed by The Broadside BandSoprano Vocals -- Patrizia KwellaTenor Vocals -- Paul Elliott---------------------------------------John Gay, (born June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 4, 1732, London), English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the author of The Beggar's Opera, a work distinguished by good-humoured satire and technical assurance.The Beggar's Opera, a ballad opera in three acts by John Gay, performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London, in 1728 and published in the same year. The work combines comedy and political satire in prose interspersed with songs set to contemporary and traditional English, Irish, Scottish, and French tunes. In it, Gay portrays the lives of a group of thieves and prostitutes in 18th-century London. The action centres on Peachum, a fence for stolen goods; Polly, his daughter; and Macheath, a highwayman. Gay caricatures the government, fashionable society, marriage, and Italian operatic style. Particularly evident are parallels made between the moral degeneracy of the opera's protagonists and contemporary highborn society.Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill based their ballad opera Die Dreigroschenoper (1928; The Threepenny Opera) on Gay's work.Encyclopædia Britannica---------------------------------------Complete track details at : http://www.allmusic.com/album/john-gay-the-beggars-opera-mw0001796529Кошельки WebMoney :WMR-кошелёк - R281073046288WMZ-кошелёк - Z150196116645