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Topic: The Beggar's Opera (film)

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opera * Lease refinancing a DODwide program... Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Rgime, 16471785. The Operas of Verdi From Il Trovatore to LA Forza Del Destino. Love and Ideology in the Afternoon Soap Opera, Women, and Television Genre Arts and Politics of the Everyday. www.alfatah.de /alfauuuopera.html   (1806 words)

channel4.com/film - The Beggars' Opera Olivier (also co-producer) plays the highwayman Macheath (the inspiration for The Beggars' Opera) and sings his own songs competently. Apart from the rumbustious Holloway, the rest are dubbed by opera singers. An ambitious notion to film this early 18th-century people's opera, but it fails because it never escapes its origins. www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=100971   (139 words)

Dissidenten NEWS This latest and most advanced of projects is the "documentary" opera THE MEMORY OF THE WATERS for a 56-piece orchestra, choir of 28 singers, band and computer together with the 71-year old American composer Gordon Sherwood (New York Symphonic Orchestra, Beggar's Opera). La Memoria de las Aguas: On 26th of July 2004 "The Dissidenten-Orchestra" and the "Choro de Camera de Pamplona" celebrate the Spanish Debut-Performance of their Documentary Opera "The Memory of the Waters" (Spanish Title: La Memoria de las Aguas) at the opening of the famous "Festivales de Navarra" in Pamplona, Spain. The event takes place in the Baluarte-Concerthall, one of Spain's most remarkable theatres and involves about 50 musicians and singers, as well as the film- & videoprojections of video-artist "Stefanie Seidl". www.dissidenten.com /DISSI-news.html   (891 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Threepenny Opera at Epinions.com That opera was already an adaptation of sorts of the 1728 opera by John Gay, called The Beggar’s Opera, set in the foggy docks of London amidst warehouses, whorehouses, street singers, beggars, and criminals. The main contours of the film already existed in the 18th century version, with the dashing Macheath – head of the criminal underworld of the docks, Jonathan Peachum, the King of the Beggars, his daughter Polly Peachum, and the police captain, Tiger-Brown. In 1928, they were presented with a second opportunity for collaboration when Brecht offered the script for The Threepenny Opera to an impresario (though there is some question as to how much of the work that went into this script was Brecht’s and how much that of his assistant, Elizabeth Hauptmann). www.epinions.com /content_155619135108   (1556 words)

Arthur Keliner Collection Commission from Felix Weingartner to arrange new ballet music for “The Beggar Student.” Performed in the Vienna Opera, Paris Opera, Basel Stadttheater Musical Director of The Museum of Modern Art, Film Department, New York. Radio Vienna: Regular piano and organ performances; Composer for radio plays special.lib.umn.edu /rare/kleiner/Vita.html   (150 words)

Director Nicholas Meyer - MoviesOnline The first film he saw was "The Beggar's Opera", starring Laurence Olivier, and he became a lifelong film buff. Meyer prepared for his own professional film-making career as a theatre and film major at the University of Iowa, from which he was graduated in 1964. At the age of 13, his preparation for filmmaking began with the help of his father, New York psychoanalyst and writer Bernard C. Meyer, when he made his first film -- an ambitious 70 minute 8mm production of "Around the World in 80 Days". www.moviesonline.ca /director315.htm   (1125 words)

Carnegie Mellon Libraries: Video: German Film adaptation of the musical theatre work, with music by Kurt Weill and original play and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht (based on "The Beggar's Opera" by John Gay); screenplay by Lania, Vajda, and Balazs; stars Lotte Lenya, Rudolph Foerster, Carola Nehr, Fritz Rasp; conducted by Theo. Opera in one act by Richard Wagner, prologue to the festival drama Der Ring des Nibelungen. Chorus and orchestra of the Wurttemberg State Opera conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. www.library.cmu.edu /Services/Video/filmog_german.html   (1816 words)

King Hu The project was developed from Hu's own idea, which he based on an opera The Drunkard Beggar remembered from his childhood days. This is Hu's first wuxia film (the swordplay and chivalry genre that predated the kung fu martial arts cinema) but it was already marked by the director's singular reworking of wuxia conventions and themes that would establish his critical reputation and make him a master of the genre. Hu began directing at Shaws in the capacity of a deputy director to Li Hanxiang on two period films The Love Eterne (1963) and The Story of Sue San (1964). www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/hu.html   (1816 words)

Carnegie Mellon Libraries: Video: German Film adaptation of the musical theatre work, with music by Kurt Weill and original play and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht (based on "The Beggar's Opera" by John Gay); screenplay by Lania, Vajda, and Balazs; stars Lotte Lenya, Rudolph Foerster, Carola Nehr, Fritz Rasp; conducted by Theo. Chorus and orchestra of the Wurttemberg State Opera conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. Opera in three acts by Richard Wagner, first day of the festival drama DER RING DES NIEBELUNGEN. www.library.cmu.edu /Services/Video/filmog_german.html   (1816 words)

Benjamin Britten However, his next operas were all written for comparatively small resources (The Rape of Lucretia, 1946; Albert Herring, 1947; a version of The Beggar's Opera 1948; The Little Sweep, 1949), for the company that became established as the English Opera Group. The next year he began working for the GPO Film Unit, where one of his collaborators was Auden: together they worked on concert works as well, Auden's social criticism being matched by a sharply satirical and virtuoso musical style (orchestral song cycle Our Hunting Fathers 1936). Britten was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1952, to the Order of Merit in 1965, and was awarded a life peerage in 1976. w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/britten.html   (522 words)

Laurence Olivier Biography The 1950s was a transitional decade for Olivier; while he had his share of successes - his movie singing debut in The Beggar's Opera (1953), his production of Richard III (1955)- he also suffered a great many setbacks, both personal and professional. Olivier made his first Shakespearean film, playing Orlando in Paul Czinner's production of As You Like It Now a popular movie leading man, Olivier starred in such entertainment's as Fire Over England (1937), The Divorce of Lady X (1938), Q Planes (1939) and 21 Days (1940). He also committed two more directorial efforts to film, Othello (1965) and Dance of Death (1969), both of which were disappointingly stagebound. www.britmovie.co.uk /biog/o/001.html   (507 words)

Yuen Wo-ping In 1979, Wo Ping formed the Wo Ping Films Company whose first project was The Buddhist Fist (1979) which co-starred Siu Tin who appeared in many of his son's films, often as an elder drunken boxing master or mischievous beggar. By matching the epic fantasy elements of Lee's favorite Chinese swordplay films from his youth with a Western aesthetic, Wo Ping was able create a uniquely dramatic and breathtaking series of action sequences that general audiences worldwide could identify with. For the next five years, Wo Ping redefined Hong Kong action by creating increasingly elaborate fights employing wires and imaginative choreography that more closely resembled his former Peking Opera roots than much of the Chinese boxing that Bruce Lee once made popular. www.kungfucinema.com /people/yuen_wo_ping.htm   (507 words)

Guardian Actress Dorothy Tutin dies aged 70 Her film roles included The Importance of Being Ernest, The Beggar's Opera, A Tale of Two Cities, Cromwell and Savage Messiah, for which she was given the Variety Club of Great Britain film actress award in 1972. Tutin originally wanted to be a pianist, but a performance in a school play persuaded her teachers and father of her talent, and the young girl was encouraged by her parents to pursue a career in theatre. Dame Dorothy, who received a CBE in 1967 and was made a Dame in the 2000 New Years Honours List is survived by her husband, Derek Waring and son and daughter Nick and Amanda. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4234543-103690,00.html   (559 words)

Small Time Crooks Small Time Crooks is no Beggar's Opera and much less a Threepenny Opera, only a Manhattan one, in which Allen seems to be taking a timeout after the bitter poignancy of Sweet and Lowdown. Nor is there the slightest hesitation in tone: from the moment Small Time Crooks departs upon its comic parabola until it completes its trajectory, the film does not touch earth for one second. Ray Winkler (Woody Allen), not only a small time crook but an equally inept one, and his even more inept associates plot to take over a defunct pizzeria in New York city and dig a tunnel through to a bank a few doors away. www.angelfire.com /movies/davesothermovielog/small_time_crooks.htm   (471 words)

British Film Composers complete listing A - F He also arranged John Gay's Beggar's Opera for the 1952--3 British Lion film. Not only was the film of Things to Come popular despite being an abomination to H G Wells but also the music and especially the March which sported a crackling energy and a broad nobility quickly became concert favourites. Apparently active only in the realms of film music. www.musicweb-international.com /film/britlist.htm   (471 words)

JamesBowman.net General, The The defiance of both adds a poignancy to the tale of Martin Cahill which makes him worthy, in a sort of bleak, 20th century way, to stand with the great romantic criminals of the 18th century who are immortalized in The Beggar's Opera. The film, shot in black and white, begins with the assassination, ordered because Cahill had sold some stolen paintings to the Protestant paramilitaries of the UVF. Cahill provided a rare modern example of the would-be Robin Hood, who gave of the proceeds of his crimes to the poor (“It’s my way of paying taxes, you know”) but was completely apolitical. www.jamesbowman.net /review_print_version.asp?pubID=586   (781 words)

Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble and Staff Her many tech credits include the PRT productions of THE BEGGAR'S OPERA (lights), SLAUGHTERHOUSE ON TANNER'S CLOSE, SITTING MAN (sound), THERE'S ONE IN EVERY MARRIAGE and GOLDEN BOY. Off-Broadway, he was seen as The Man Who Dies in The Fantasticks (yes, the original at the Sullivan St. Playhouse) and as Yepihodov in The Cherry Orchard. Michael also appeared on Broadway in the revival of The Corn Is Green directed by Vivian Matalon and in the national tours ofJelly's Last Jam (Melrose Brother), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Deputy), and opposite Martin Landau's Dracula (Renfield). www.pacificresidenttheatre.com /prtensemble.shtml   (781 words)

ABC.com: All My Children He also played Macheath in The Beggar's Opera at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Trigorin in The Sea Gull at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, and starred in Sweeney Todd at the North Shore Music Theatre. Primetime television audiences know him as Candy in Bonanza, as Russ Gehring in Peyton Place and from numerous guest appearances in other programs, including the made-for-television film, The Dain Curse. David returned to North Shore in the fall of 1998 to play the mercurial poet in Kismet. abc.go.com /daytime/allmychildren/bios/David_Canary.html   (781 words)

Olivier, Laurence (Kerr), BARON OLIVIER OF BRIGHTON Among his many films of the 1950s and '60s were The Beggar's Opera (1953); Richard III (1956), for which he received a British Film Academy Award; and Othello (1965). From 1950 Olivier directed and acted under his own management, notably in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra with Vivien Leigh, and as Archie Rice in The Entertainer (1957) by John Osborne. Olivier's notable successes in Shakespearean roles during that time included the title role in Richard III; Hotspur in Henry IV, Part I; and Justice Shallow in Henry IV, Part II. search.eb.com /shakespeare/micro/437/67.html   (781 words)

Beggar's Opera, The - Laurence Olivier & Stanley Holloway, Dorothy Tutin, Daphne Anderson, George Devine, Mary Clare - 1952 While waiting to be hanged, the captain is entertained by a musical beggar, who has written an opera of which the highwayman is the hero. The Olivier film is a spoof of--movie musicals! The Comedy of Errors - 1983 (tv) - Roger Daltrey, Michael Kitchen, Cyril Cusack, Charles Gray www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/products_id/304   (494 words)

Operas 1607-1792 *** 1728 - Pepusch/John Gay: Beggar's Opera - Music mostly from popular songs of the day, arranged by Pepusch, text by John Gay - Modern music adaptation by Jeremy Barlow and John Eliot Gardiner - Directed by Jonathan Miller - "Film" (not stage) version done in 1983. The quality of acting and direction would make this work even if it was just a play with no music or singing. Somehow none of the music is especially memorable. www.magnet.gr /~drosos/operald1.htm   (494 words)

June Literary Birthdays June 30: English dramatist John Gay (1685; "Beggar's Opera"); Alexander Dyce, Scottish scholar and editor (1798); British suspense novelist Winston (Mawdsley) Graham (1910), whose novel John of the Cross (1542; d.1591), aka San Juan de la Cruz, born Juan de Yepes y Alvarez, Spanish poet and Carmelite priest, famous for three mystical poems, including was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock; Polish-American poet Czeslaw Milosz (1911-Aug. 2004); Scottish children's novelist Molly Hunter (1922); popular American children's author and illustrator David McPhail (1940) www.waterborolibrary.org /births/bjune.htm   (494 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Dorothy Tutin : Biography Tutin's film work has included such parts as Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) and Polly Peachum in The Beggar's Opera (1953); her co-star in the latter endeavor was Laurence Olivier, who in 1984 would play Lear opposite Tutin's Goneril in an internationally syndicated television production of King Lear. Tutin was also seen on TV as Anne Boleyn in 1971's Six Wives of Henry VIII, as Lady Fenton in the 1994 Gone With the Wind sequel Scarlet, and as star of the weekly British series Body and Soul. London-born Dorothy Tutin went directly from the classrooms of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to her 1949 stage debut as Princess Margaret in The Thistle and the Rose. www.vh1.com /movies/person/63567/bio.jhtml   (251 words)

English Literature Program at Pitt Eight Great Comedies, edited by Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman and William Burto (Meridian): we will read Molière's The Miser (1668); John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728); William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1601); Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1895); and George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man (1894) Our texts will be comic masterpieces ranging across three genres-drama, fiction and film; four nationalities-British, French, American and Russian; and almost four centuries-from 1601 to 1940. Critical/theoretical readings will include some basic commentaries on comedy from Aristotle, Bakhtin, Frye and Freud. www.pitt.edu /~englit/syllabus0642.htm   (251 words)

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