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| Title | Macheath: A Modern Beggar's Opera [unfinished?] |
| Contributors |
Buxton Orr (composer) Barry Guy (composer) |
| Composition date | 1972 |
| Duration (mins) | 0 |
| Category | theatre |
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| Notes | '... an attempt to place the piece firmly in the 1970s and yet not only to retain the basic plot but also incorporate so many allusions to the eighteenth century that much of the dialogue of the originally will be suitable as it stands'.. 'I have been working with Barry Guy, a young jazz musician, and Anthony Besch, the operatic producer, on a rock-musical approach to The Beggar's Opera'. It would seem that it was not completed. |
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