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The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century. In The Beggar’s Opera, John Gay turned conventions of Italian opera riotously upside-down, instead using traditional popular ballads and street tunes, while also indulging in political satire at the expense of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Gay’s highly original depiction of the thieves, informers, prostitutes and highwaymen thronging the slums and prisons of the corrupt London underworld proved brilliantly successful in exposing the dark side of…

Дилогия ОПЕРА НИЩЕГО и ПОЛЛИ - это взаимосвязанные единым сюжетом комедии; сюжет был навеян подлинными событиями, происшедшими в лондонской тюрьме. Раскрывая неразрывную связь между преступным миром и властями, писатель выступил со смелой сатирой на господствующие классы Англии XVIII века. В комедиях много вставных музыкальных номеров, игривые уличные песенки исполнялись на мотив популярных итальянских опер. Яркая сценичность, живой, подчас грубоватый язык придают пьесам художественное своеобразие. Комедии впервые переведены на русский язык. Книга иллюстрирована гравюрами художников XVIII века.

This joyful poetic satire describes wig thieves, chamberpots, prostitutes and other hazards to be avoided on the teeming streets of eighteenth-century London.

'Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.'

With The Beggar's Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history, and invented a new dramatic form, the ballad opera. Gay's daring mixture of caustic political satire, well-loved popular tunes, and a story of crime and betrayal set in the urban underworld of prostitutes and thieves was an overnight sensation. Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum have become famous well beyond the confines of Gay's original play, and in its sequel, Polly, banned in Gay's lifetime, their adventures continue in the West Indies. With a cross-dressing heroine and a cast of female adventurers, pirates, Indian princes, rebel slaves, and rapacious landowners, Polly lays bare a culture in which all human relationships are reduced to commercial transactions.

Raucous, lyrical, witty, ironic and tragic by turns, The Beggar's Opera and Polly - published together here for the first time - offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws, colonialists and pirates, are impossible to tell apart.

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Dies ist das Libretto zur Oper Acis und Galatea. Genießen Sie zum Klang Ihrer Lieblingsoper die Original-Texte auf Ihrem Bildschirm. Einzelne Akte und, falls mehrsprachig, Sprachen lassen sich über das Inhaltsverzeichnis auswählen.