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“I have prepared an original orchestration which will receive its premiere.” Charles Larkowski WSU music professor Cha-rles Larkowski has had many opening nights, but on May 7, neither his voice nor ...

For his first full production in the Linbury Studio, director Justin Way attempts something that, in the hands of Richard Jones, might have invigorated John Gay’s 1728 ballad opera. Here, though, it ...

Little Island’s season opens with a musical, inspired by “The Beggar’s Opera” and “The Threepenny Opera,” that has had a fast and furious gestation. “The Counterfeit Opera,” with a book and lyrics by ...

The work is also a satire on the opera-going tradition of the time: instead of using the grandiose characters of Handelian opera – kings, princes magicians - Gay has made the entire cast of characters ...

A huge success at its first performance in 1728 John Gay's The Beggar's Opera satirized the conventions of Italian opera, using popular tunes to tell the story of rogues and criminals. With his ...

John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera is a uniquely important and remarkable piece of British theatre: the first of a new genre, the ballad opera, in 1728, that was killed off with the advent of the Lord ...

The swankest of the arts in 18th-Century London was Italian opera. Periwigged courtiers, who could not understand a word of it, raised their lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel-voiced ...

Anybody who enjoys Britten’s folksong arrangements or Purcell realisations will recognise the same ingenuity at work here. The arrangements are busy with counterpoint – Britten himself worried that he ...