The Beggars Opera (GA) [US-Version, Regio 1/ A]
Peter Pears

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Decca
Release date: 14/Jul/2009

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Style:

Opera

Product No.:

1898251935

Details / Tracklist:

01. Not Applicable "Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera - Opening Credits"
The Beggar's Opera (realised by Benjamin Britten)
02. Roger Jerome "If poverty be a title to poetry (Prologue)"
03. Meredith Davies "Overture (Prologue)"
04. David Kelly "Through all the employments of life (Act 1)"
05. Meredith Davies "'Tis woman seduces all mankind (Act 1)"
06. David Kelly "A register of the gang (Act 1)"
07. Meredith Davies "Women are bitter bad judges...If any wench Venus' girdle wear (Act 1)"
08. Meredith Davies "Yonder comes my husband...Virgins are like the fair flower (Act 1)"
09. Meredith Davies "Our Polly is a sad slut (Act 1)"
10. Meredith Davies "The girl shows...O Polly, you might have toyed... (Act 1)"
11. Meredith Davies "What is a jointure...The turtle dove thus with plaintive crying... (Act 1)"
12. Meredith Davies "Now I am a wretch indeed...Pretty Polly say (Act 1)"
13. Meredith Davies "My heart was so free (Act 1)"
14. Meredith Davies "Sure, my dear...Were I laid on Greenland's coast... (Act 1)"
15. Meredith Davies "The miser thus a shilling sees (Act 1)"
16. Various "But the present time is ours (Act 1)"
17. Various "Fill ev'ry glass (Act 1)"
18. Various "It's now high time...Let us take the road (Act 1)"
19. Meredith Davies "If the heart of a man (Act 1)"
20. Meredith Davies "Mrs Coaxer...Youth's the season made for joys (Act 1)"
21. Meredith Davies "It's your own choice...Before the barn-door crowing (Act 1)"
22. Meredith Davies "But to be sure, sir...The gamesters and lawyers (Act 1)"
23. David Kelly "Constables, wait...At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure (Act 1)"
24. Drake, Bryan "Noble Captain, you are welcome (Act 2)"
25. Meredith Davies "To see you tortured...Thus when a good housewife sees a rat (Act 2)"
26. Meredith Davies "You know, Lucy...The first time at the looking glass.. (Act 2)"
27. Meredith Davies "Is then his fate decreed, sir? (Act 2)"
28. Meredith Davies "I will not!...How happy could I be with either... (Act 2)"
29. Meredith Davies "Really, Miss Peachum, you expose yourself...Cease... (Act 2)"
30. Meredith Davies "Why how now, Madam Flirt? (Act 2)"
31. Meredith Davies "No pow'r on earth can e'er divide (Act 2)"
32. Drake, Bryan "To be sure, wench (Act 3)"
33. Meredith Davies "Dear, sir, mention not my education...When young at the bar... (Act 3)"
34. Drake, Bryan "Thus gamesters united in friendship (Act 3)"
35. Carolyn Maia "Look ye, Mrs. Jenny (Act 3)"
36. Roger Jerome "Slippery Sam...The modes of the court (Act 3)"
37. Drake, Bryan "Keep a watchful eye on Polly...What gudgeons are we men (Act 3)"
38. Meredith Davies "In the days of my youth (Act 3)"
39. Meredith Davies "Jealousy, rage, love and fear...I'm like a skiff (Act 3)"
40. Meredith Davies "A curse attends a woman's love (Act 3)"
41. Meredith Davies "Come, sweet lass, let's banish sorrow (Act 3)"

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Subtitle:

English, French, German, Spanish; Castilian (ENG, FRE, GER, SPA)

Extra-Infos:

English Chamber Orchestra/ Britten

Description:

Directed by Charles R. Rogers. Starring David Kelly, Anna Pollak, Bernard Dickerson.

Actors:

Anna Pollak, Bernard Dickerson, David Kelly, Janet Baker, Roger Jerome, Bryan Drake, Heather Harper, Kenneth McKellar

Director:

Charles R. Rogers

Producer: