The Beggar’s Opera

The Beggar’s Opera

Movie 2008-01-01 2h 4m Drama Music

The Beggar's Opera is one of the earliest examples of a Musical in the history of theater (from which Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill drew inspiration for the Threepenny Opera). A crowd of thieves and prostitutes, fences and swindlers, speaking various dialects with Peppe Servillo as the shady fence, Angela Baraldi (the wife), Marco Alemanno and opera singer Borja Quiza Martinez (Captain Uccello) directed by Lucio Dalla. New translation and dramaturgical version by Giuseppe Di Leva of John Gay's play transported from the slums of 18th-century London to the Bologna of today.

Status
Released
Country
Italy
Language
Italian
Director
Lucio Dalla
Cast
Peppe Servillo Peppe Servillo Angela Baraldi Angela Baraldi Marco Alemanno Marco Alemanno
Borja Quiza Martinez Borja Quiza Martinez
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