"Monster's Opera" follows in the grand historical tradition of #JohnGAY 's "Beggar's Opera" (1728) the foundational basis of all English language #MusicalTheatre , a parody of corrupt British PM #RobertWALPOLE , & its 1928 German adaptation "The Threepenny Opera" by #BertoltBRECHT & #KurtWeill .
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
John Gay, The Broadside Band, Jeremy Barlow, Richard Jackson & Adrian Thompson:
🎵 Beggars Opera ('When you Censure the Age')
#BBCRadio3 #JohnGay #TheBroadsideBand #JeremyBarlow #RichardJackson #AdrianThompson
From @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social show #Money. #ThreepennyOpera was based on #JohnGay & #Scribblerians #BeggarsOpera which inspired song #play #AChorusOfDisapproval, the song #MackTheKnife and an ad for fast food #MetalMonday
Shadow owes its birth to light.
- #JohnGay
"Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-gay
✒ #JohnGay, English poet and playwright, was #BOTD 30 June 1685. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature
2025 challenge: one #book a day.
Day 92: #L’OperaDaTreSoldi (in German #DieDreigroschenoper) by #BertoltBrecht
Inspired by #TheBeggar’sOpera (1728) by #JohnGay, this iconic play (inscindibile from #KurtWeill’s music) draws an #uncanny parallel between the #underworld and the world of #business.
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #MusicMatters
John Gay, National Philharmonic Orchestra & Richard Bonynge:
🎵 Thus I stand like the Turk (The Beggar's Opera)
#BBCRadio3 #JohnGay #NationalPhilharmonicOrchestra #RichardBonynge
#Tubi has three telefilm adaptations written by #JohnGay (playwright of the magnificent play #DiversionsAndDelights ) . The 1982 #WitnessfortheProsecution , the 1982 #TheHunchbackOfNotreDame (starring #AnthonyHopkins )as well as the superb #LesMiserables with #AnthonyPerkins and #RichardJordan .
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBC Radio 3's #Breakfast
George Frideric Handel, John Gay, Les Boréades de Montréal & Eric Milnes:
🎵 Handel: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, Act I: Sinfonia (presto)
#BBCRadio3 #GeorgeFridericHandel #JohnGay #LesBoréadesdeMontréal #EricMilnes
▶️ Track on #Spotify:
John Gay (1685-1732) was a Devon-born satirist best-known as the author of The Beggar's Opera, a sort of forerunner of the modern-day jukebox musical, in that the libretto was mostly set to popular tunes of the day. #JohnGay #WessexWorthies
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