John Gay Songtexte
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Through all the employments of life" (Peachum)
The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Were I laid on Greenland's coast" (Macheath, Polly)
Geboren am 30. Juni 1685, Gestorben am 04. Dezember 1732
The Beggar's Opera
- Overture
- Thro' All the Employment of Life
- 'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind
- If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
- Our Polly Is a Sad Slut
- Can Love Be Controlled by Advice
- O, Polly, You Have Been Toyed and Kissed
- As Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
- O Ponder Well
- The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying
- My Heart Was So Free
- Where I Laid on Greenlands's Coast, O What a Pain It Is to Part
- Fill Every Glass; Let Us Take to the Road
- If the Heart of a Man
- Youth's the Season
- Before the Barn-Door Crowimg
- How Cruel Are the Traitors
- When You Censure the Age
- Is Then His Fate Degreed?
- How Happy I Could Be With Either
- I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled
- Cease Your Funning
- Why, How Now Madam Flirt
- No Power on Earth
- Interlude
- When Young at the Bar
- I'm Like a Skiff
- Thus Gamesters United
- The Modes of the Court
- In the Days of My Youth
- A Curse Attends That Woman's Love
- Come, Sweet Lass
- Hither, Dear Husband
- Which Way Shall I Turn Me?
- The Charge Is Prepared
- Dance of the Prisoners in Chains
- Would I Be Hang'd
- Finale: Thus I Stand Like the Turk
- Finale: Thus I Stand Like the Turk 2
The Beggar's Opera (The Broadside Band, conductor: Jeremy Barlow)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry" (Beggar, Player)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue / Overture
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Through all the employments of life" (Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue "Sir, Black Moll hath sent word" (Filch, Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "'Tis woman that seduces all mankind" (Filch, Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "But 'tis now high time to look about me" (Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "What of Bob Booty, husband?" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air "If any wench Venus's girdle wear" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "If love the virgin's heart invade" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Never was a man more out the way in an argument" (Mrs Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A maid is like the golden ore" (Mrs Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Come hither, Filch" (Mrs Peachum, Filch)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "I know as well as any of the fine ladies" (Polly)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre" (Polly, Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Our Poly is a sad slut!" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Polly)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Can love be control'd by advice?" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O Polly, you might have toy'd and kissed" (Mrs Peachum, Polly)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "I like a ship in storms was tossed" (Polly, Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Dear wife, be a little pacified" (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A fox may steal your hens, sir" (Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "'Twas only Nimming Ned" (Polly, Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Oh, ponder well! be not severe" (Polly, Mrs Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The turtle thus with plaintive crying" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "The thing, husband, must and shall be done" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Now I'm a wretch" (Polly)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Pretty Polly, say" (Macheath, Polly)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "My heart was so free" (Macheath, Polly)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Were I laid on Greenland's coast" (Macheath, Polly)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O what pain it is to part!" (Polly, Macheath)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The miser thus a shilling sees" (Macheath, Polly)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "But pr'ythee, Matt, what is become of thy brother Tom?" (Ben, Matt, Jemmy, Jack, Wat, Robin, Ned, Harry)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us" (Matt, company)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Gentlemen, well met" (Macheath, Matt)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Let us take the road" (Matt)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "What a fool is a fond wench!" (Macheath)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "If the heart of a man is deprest with cares" (Macheath, Drawer)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome" (Macheath)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Youth's the season made for joys" (Macheath, Jenny, Coaxer, Vixen, Brazen)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Before the barn door crowing" (Jenny, Macheath, Trull, Tawdry, Slammekin, Vixen)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike" (Jenny, Tawdry, Macheath)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "I seize you, sir, as my prisoner" (Peachum, Macheath)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure" (Macheath, Peachum)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Look ye, Mrs Jenny" (Vixen, Coaxer, Slammekin, Trull, Jenny)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Noble Captain, you are welcome" (Lockit, Macheath)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Man may escape from rope and gun" (Macheath)
Mehr Songtexte
- The Beggar's Opera: Act I. "Virgins are like the fair flow'r in its lustre"
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. "Cease your funning"
- Finalie: Thus I stand like the Turk
- Ovature
- How crule are the traitors
- The Turtle thus with planitive crying
- Finalie: Thus I stand like the Turk 2
- The charge is prepaired
- 'tis woman that seduces all nnankind
- When young st the bar
- O' Polly, you have been yoyed and kissed
- Our Poly is a sad slut
- Fuill every glass, Let us take to the road