The Beggar's Opera " review
Regent's Park, LondonLucy Bailey has had a bold and radical idea: to stage John Gay's 1728 ballad opera in its original period. This makes sense, since the piece was both an attack on Sir Robert Walpole's corrupt administration and a satire on fashionable London's obsession with Italian opera. And, wisely, Bailey leaves it to us to deduce the parallels between Gay's portrait of a society dominated by money, self-inte…
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