The Beggar’s Opera
Overview
The Beggar's Opera is one of the earliest examples of a Musical in the history of theater (from which Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill drew inspiration for the Threepenny Opera). A crowd of thieves and prostitutes, fences and swindlers, speaking various dialects with Peppe Servillo as the shady fence, Angela Baraldi (the wife), Marco Alemanno and opera singer Borja Quiza Martinez (Captain Uccello) directed by Lucio Dalla. New translation and dramaturgical version by Giuseppe Di Leva of John Gay's play transported from the slums of 18th-century London to the Bologna of today.
Top-billed cast
- BBorja Quiza Martinez
- PPeppe Servillo
- MMarco Alemanno
- AAngela Baraldi
Crew
- Director
- Lucio Dalla
- Writer
- John Gay
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Who directed The Beggar’s Opera?
The Beggar’s Opera was directed by Lucio Dalla.
When was The Beggar’s Opera released?
The Beggar’s Opera was released in 2008.
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