"THE BEGGAR'S OPERA."

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 128, 27 November 1923, Page 2

"THE BEGGAR'S OPERA."

lake a child's dream of highwaymen, and love and adventure, is "The BegfStVm 1*1"?' uto^ be P«duced for t& first tune at the Grand Opera House on Saturday next The characters move >«[Puppets through their scenes. The ari If^ an Md ,his P«* °{ Sieves are, as it were, taken, straight from the J$ aZ * t^J^ 0^- Never-- was so riv 9nn h6 Peachum seated by John Oay 200 years ago in London. Then there is Macheath, the amorous captain, with all h,s troubles, which must not De taken too seriously, because all will come right in the end. So gorgeous a creature „ he, who wears tvs fetters nobly that he does not.really belong to this mortal worid. The audience will tad itself, in a new atmosphere when the curtain goes up, for here is a representation of Charing Cross in 1728, when Oay s opera was given to the people for the first tune. a little effort of the imagination, those, who listen to the beautiful mus ic and watch with increasw& If uf the novel CTents unfolded will be able to enjoy the delightful exyears and seeing how their ancestors behaved m the grand old days, when the queer characters of forbidden "industry drank and sang their way to Newgate and sometimes to Tyburn Tree. Captivating music runs through the opera in the introductions and accompaniments, and an orchestra of but ei^ht performed playing the • instruments" of the period, have been inspired to achieve its atmosphere as nearly a s possible. The box plans for the season open on Thursday morning at The Bristol