The Beggar's Opera John Gay

Selected musical numbers

  • Can Love be control'd by Advice? (Polly, act 1)
  • Let us take the Road (Chorus of Highwaymen, act 2)
  • At the Tree I shall suffer (Macheath, act 2)
  • How cruel are the Traitors (Lucy, act 2)
  • How happy could I be with either (Macheath, act 2)
  • In the Days of my Youth (Mrs Diana Trapes, act 3)
  • The Charge is prepar'd (Macheath, act 3)
  • The Modes of the Court so Common are Grown (Macheath, act 3)

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