
The Beggar's Opera
Comedy
Overview
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers have penned variations on it ever since. The most famous of these was A Threepenny Opera by Bertholt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Some things these compositions share in common is their setting among the poor and criminal classes, and the roguish character Macheath. This production is based on an adaptation of Gay's original by Vaclav Havel the freedom-fighter, writer and philosopher who became the first (and only) president of the united post-communist country of Czechoslovakia, and it retains many traces of its theatrical origins. Film reviewers were not too tolerant of what they called "slavish adherence" to the noted Czech writer's stage production, but theater, philosophy and history buffs may feel otherwise.
Top Cast


Josef Abrhám
Josef Abrhám
Macheath
Josef Abrhám
Macheath


Marián Labuda
Marián Labuda
Peachum
Marián Labuda
Peachum


Nina Divíšková
Nina Divíšková
Elizabeth Peachum
Nina Divíšková
Elizabeth Peachum


Libuše Šafránková
Libuše Šafránková
Jenny
Libuše Šafránková
Jenny


Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský
Lockit
Rudolf Hrušínský
Lockit


Veronika Freimanová
Veronika Freimanová
Lucy
Veronika Freimanová
Lucy
Barbora Leichnerová
Barbora Leichnerová
Polly
Barbora Leichnerová
Polly


Jiří Zahajský
Jiří Zahajský
Harry Filch
Jiří Zahajský
Harry Filch


Oldřich Vízner
Oldřich Vízner
Jim
Oldřich Vízner
Jim


Ondřej Vetchý
Ondřej Vetchý
Jack
Ondřej Vetchý
Jack
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