The Beggar's Opera

Album by John Gay

The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera by the English playwright John Gay, first performed in 1728. Combining spoken dialogue with popular tunes of the day and satirical lyrics, it helped establish the ballad opera genre and challenged contemporary operatic conventions, marking a pivotal point in the development of English musical theatre.
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  1. 1.
    Overture
    2:46
  2. 2.
    Thro' All the Employment of Life
    0:59
  3. 3.
    'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind
    1:03
  4. 4.
    If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
    0:44
  5. 5.
    Our Polly Is a Sad Slut
    0:35
  6. 6.
    Can Love Be Controlled by Advice
    1:29
  7. 7.
    O, Polly, You Have Been Toyed and Kissed
    1:53
  8. 8.
    As Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
    0:36
  9. 9.
    O Ponder Well
    1:36
  10. 10.
    The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying
    1:38
  11. 11.
    My Heart Was So Free
    0:39
  12. 12.
    Where I Laid on Greenlands's Coast, O What a Pain It Is to Part
    3:43
  13. 13.
    Fill Every Glass; Let Us Take to the Road
    2:31
  14. 14.
    If the Heart of a Man
    1:21
  15. 15.
    Youth's the Season
    2:21
  16. 16.
    Before the Barn-Door Crowimg
    0:53
  17. 17.
    How Cruel Are the Traitors
    1:26
  18. 18.
    When You Censure the Age
    0:56
  19. 19.
    Is Then His Fate Degreed?
    0:51
  20. 20.
    How Happy I Could Be With Either
    0:42
  21. 21.
    I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled
    0:40
  22. 22.
    Cease Your Funning
    1:46
  23. 23.
    Why, How Now Madam Flirt
    0:40
  24. 24.
    No Power on Earth
    1:44
  25. 25.
    Interlude
    1:24
  26. 26.
    When Young at the Bar
    1:25
  27. 27.
    I'm Like a Skiff
    0:51
  28. 28.
    Thus Gamesters United
    1:07
  29. 29.
    The Modes of the Court
    0:57
  30. 30.
    In the Days of My Youth
    0:56
  31. 31.
    A Curse Attends That Woman's Love
    1:20
  32. 32.
    Come, Sweet Lass
    0:32
  33. 33.
    Hither, Dear Husband
    1:22
  34. 34.
    Which Way Shall I Turn Me?
    0:49
  35. 35.
    The Charge Is Prepared
    1:19
  36. 36.
    Dance of the Prisoners in Chains
    1:01
  37. 37.
    Would I Be Hang'd
    2:08
  38. 38.
    Finale: Thus I Stand Like the Turk
    1:24
  39. 39.
    Finale: Thus I Stand Like the Turk 2
    24:00

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