Event listing: The Beggar's Opera | Epstein Theatre | Fri 1 Mar 2013 at 19:30

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Epstein TheatreHanover House, 85 Hanover Street, Liverpool, North-West, L1 3DZ, United Kingdom

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Programme

Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)

Performers

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Farnes	Conductor
European Opera Centre
RNCM soloists and chorus

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Britten's The Beggar's Opera with the RLPO

Andrew H. King, 4th March

On 29 January 1728, at John Rich’s theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, playwright John Gay and composer Johann Christoph Pepusch presented to the London public a new ballad opera that would shake the foundations of musical entertainment.

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