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The Beggar's Opera

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Written in 1728, a satirical ballad opera by John Gay. Hugely popular in its own day, it became the model for numerous adaptations, among them a version by the composer Benjamin Britten (1948) and the play, Dreigroschenoper (1928), by Bert Brecht.

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