The Beggar's Opera West End in 1940 - The Beggar's Opera At its London premiere in 1728, John Gay's rollicking Beggar's Opera caused a sensation. Lampooning… ...
The first few chords of Sergei Prokofiev’s 1940 opera “Semyon Kotko” have a lush, almost Hollywood quality that makes you think this exercise in socialist realism might be fun. As the Kirov Opera’s ...