Beggar's Opera

UPC: 014381579529

Studio: Image Entertainment

Summary: Dr. Jonathan Miller, onetime Beyond the Fringe trouper, who was one of the leading lights of the PBS Shakespeare productions of 1978-83, serves as director of The Beggar's Opera. This adaptation of John Gay's lusty 18th-century "play with song" stars The Who's Roger Daltrey as robber captain MacHearh. Stratford Johns co-stars as Peachum, king of beggars, whose licentious daughter Polly falls in love with MacHeath, while Bob Hoskins is appropriately scrungy as an "on the take" constable. Originally taped for British television, The Beggar's Opera received American air play on public and cable TV. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Music [nf]

Features: [None specified]

Beggar's Opera

Format: DVD

Release Date: 10/31/2000

Audio: 5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, 2 PCM stereo

Runtime: 134 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1
0. Chapter Selection
1. Introduction [3:14]
2. Through All the Employments of Life [2:35]
3. 'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind [4:25]
4. If Any Wench Venus's Girdle Wear [2:54]
5. If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade [2:51]
6. A Maid Is Like a Golden Ore [3:47]
7. Virgin Are Like the Fair Flower in Its Lustre [1:34]
8. Our Polly Is a Sad Slut! [2:25]
9. Can Love Be Controlled by Advice? [1:48]
10. O, Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed [1:35]
11. I, Like a Ship in Storms, Was Tossed [2:02]
12. A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir [2:47]
13. O, Ponder Well! Be Not Severe [:42]
14. The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying [4:20]
15. Pretty Polly, Say [1:02]
16. My Heart Was So Free [:56]
17. Where I Laid on Greenland's Coast [1:09]
18. O, What Pain it Is to Part [2:32]
19. The Miser Thus a Schilling Sees [2:55]
20. Fill Every Glass, for Wine Inspires Us [2:23]
21. Let Us Take the Road [1:20]
22. If the Heart of Man Is Depressed With Cares [4:26]
23. Youth's the Season Made for Joy [3:10]
24. Before the Barn Door Crowning [2:18]
25. The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike [2:41]
26. At the Tree I Shall Suffer With Pleasure [3:12]
27. Man Man Escape From Rope and Gun [1:54]
28. Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat [:37]
29. How Cruel Are the Traitors? [2:53]
30. The First Time at the Looking-Glass [2:08]
31. When You Censure the Age [4:08]
32. Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? [1:42]
33. If Not at an Office, Solicit Your Due [2:08]
34. Thus, When the Swallow Seeking Prey [1:24]
35. How Happy Could I Be With Either [:49]
36. I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled [:52]
37. Cease Your Funning [1:33]
38. Why, How Now, Madam Flirt? [:37]
39. No Power on Earth [3:14]
40. I , Like the Fox, Shall Grieve [2:39]
41. When Young at the Bar You First Taught Me to Score [2:51]
42. My Love Is All Madness and Folly [1:53]
43. Thus Gamesters United in Friendship Are Found [3:25]
44. The Modes of the Court so Common Are Grown [4:02]
45. What Gudgeons Are We Men! [1:53]
46. In the Days of My Youth [4:04]
47. I'm Like a Skiff on the Ocean Tossed [1:17]
48. When a Wife's in Her Pout [1:18]
49. A Curse Attends That Woman's Love [:45]
50. Among the Men, Conquests We Find [1:17]
51. Come, Sweet Lass [1:33]
52. Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes [:42]
53. Which Way Shall I Turn Me [:46]
54. When My Hero in Court Appears [1:21]
55. When He Holds Up His Hand [1:09]
56. Ourselves, Like The Great, To Secure A Retreat [1:00]
57. The Charge Is Prepared [:54]
58. O Cruel, Cruel, Cruel Case [3:06]
59. Since Laws Were Made for Every Degree [3:20]
60. Would I Might Be Hanged [3:58]
61. Thus I Stand Like the Turk; End Credits [1:49]

Cast and Crew: John Eliot Gardiner  Actor 
Bob Hoskins  Actor 
Roger Daltrey  Actor 
Stratford Johns  Actor 
Rosemary Ashe  Actor 
Carol Hall  Actor 
Peter Bayliss  Actor 
Patricia Routledge  Actor 
Jonathan Miller  Director 
Johann Christoph Pepusch  Composer (Music Score) 

Country: USA