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Polly Peachum and 'Mac the Knife' Macheath, a career criminal, have a rocky relationship, considering how Mac may be already married and Polly's father, a racketeer who controls and exploits London's beggars, would like to see Mac hanged. Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, it is set in Victorian England's Soho at the time of Queen Victoria's coronation but satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic.
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It is only since the bel canto era in the 19th century that the tenor voice really took off as a leading character in operatic roles, often playing the heroic figure against a love-interest soprano and a villain baritone. This collection of some of opera's most iconic arias takes us from the dark emotional crises of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Puccini's Tosca, to the seductive Rodolfo in La Bohème and Donizetti's show-stopping hich Cs in La Fille...
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"The Beggar's Opera is a free-wheeling, highly politicized adaptation of John Gay's well-known eighteenth-century work of the same name. The play, reminiscent of Havel's earlier Garden Party and The Memorandum, is up to his best satirical standard. Like the Brecht/Weill Threepenny Opera, Havel's play uses an underworld milieu to explore the intermingled themes of love, loyalty, and treachery."--Jacket.
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