Beggar's Opera Medley

~ Recording by The Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.6Beggar's Opera Medley3:04The Fifes and Drums of Colonial WilliamsburgMarching Out of TimeThe Fifes and Drums of Colonial WilliamsburgAlbum
The Colonial Williamsburgh Foundation

Relationships

instruments:The Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg
phonographic copyright (℗) by:The Colonial Williamsburgh Foundation
recording of:The Beggar's Opera (medley)

Related works

The Beggar's Opera

additional composer:Johann Christoph Pepusch
composer and librettist:John Gay (English poet and dramatist)
later versions:The Beggar's Opera (Arne version)
parts:The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air "If any wench Venus's girdle wear" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "'Tis woman that seduces all mankind" (Filch, Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A fox may steal your hens, sir" (Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A maid is like the golden ore" (Mrs Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Can love be control'd by advice?" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "I like a ship in storms was tossed" (Polly, Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "If love the virgin's heart invade" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "My heart was so free" (Macheath, Polly)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O Polly, you might have toy'd and kissed" (Mrs Peachum, Polly)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O what pain it is to part!" (Polly, Macheath)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Oh, ponder well! be not severe" (Polly, Mrs Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Our Poly is a sad slut!" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Polly)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Pretty Polly, say" (Macheath, Polly)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The miser thus a shilling sees" (Macheath, Polly)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The turtle thus with plaintive crying" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Through all the employments of life" (Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre" (Polly, Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Were I laid on Greenland's coast" (Macheath, Polly)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue "Sir, Black Moll hath sent word" (Filch, Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue / Overture
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "'Twas only Nimming Ned" (Polly, Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "But 'tis now high time to look about me" (Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Come hither, Filch" (Mrs Peachum, Filch)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Dear wife, be a little pacified" (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "I know as well as any of the fine ladies" (Polly)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Never was a man more out the way in an argument" (Mrs Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Now I'm a wretch" (Polly)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "The thing, husband, must and shall be done" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "What of Bob Booty, husband?" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry" (Beggar, Player)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure" (Macheath, Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Before the barn door crowing" (Jenny, Macheath, Trull, Tawdry, Slammekin, Vixen)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us" (Matt, company)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "If the heart of a man is deprest with cares" (Macheath, Drawer)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Let us take the road" (Matt)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Man may escape from rope and gun" (Macheath)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike" (Jenny, Tawdry, Macheath)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Youth's the season made for joys" (Macheath, Jenny, Coaxer, Vixen, Brazen)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "But pr'ythee, Matt, what is become of thy brother Tom?" (Ben, Matt, Jemmy, Jack, Wat, Robin, Ned, Harry)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome" (Macheath)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Gentlemen, well met" (Macheath, Matt)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "I seize you, sir, as my prisoner" (Peachum, Macheath)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Look ye, Mrs Jenny" (Vixen, Coaxer, Slammekin, Trull, Jenny)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Noble Captain, you are welcome" (Lockit, Macheath)
The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "What a fool is a fond wench!" (Macheath)
The Beggar’s Opera: “Cease your funning”
is the basis for:Die Dreigroschenoper
The Quaker's Opera
arrangements:The Beggar's Opera (Frederic Austin's version)
The Beggar’s Opera (Britten adaptation)