Painting based on The Beggar's Opera, act 3, scene 2, William Hogarth, c. 1728
The ballad opera is a genre of English stage entertainment that originated in the early 18th century, and continued to develop over the following century and later. Like the earlier comédie en vaudeville and the later Singspiel, its distinguishing characteristic is the use of tunes in a popular style (either pre-existing or newly composed) with spoken dialogue. These English plays were 'operas' mainly insofar as they satirized the conventions of the imported opera seria. Music critic Peter Gammond describes the ballad opera as "an important step in the emancipation of both the musical stage and the popular song."[1]
^Gammond, Peter (1991). The Oxford Companion to Popular Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 0-19-311323-6.
The balladopera is a genre of English stage entertainment that originated in the early 18th century, and continued to develop over the following century...
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally...
Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English balladopera, The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although...
"tear-jerkers" or "drawing-room ballads", they were generally sentimental, narrative, strophic songs published separately or as part of an opera, descendants perhaps...
exceptions were balladoperas, such as John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), musical burlesques, European operettas, and late Victorian era light operas, notably...
Gaetano Donizetti. Similar foreign genres such as French opéra comique, English balladopera, Spanish zarzuela or German Singspiel differed as well in...
Wisdom, or The Virgin Unmasked, A Farce (1734), balladopera Don Quixote in England (1734), balladopera The Miser (1735), incidental music by Thomas Arne...
the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a balladopera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum...
exceptions before 1800 can be found in Purcell's works, Handel's first operas, balladopera and Singspiel of the 18th century, etc. Just as with literature and...
singspiel, Viennese operetta, Spanish zarzuela, Russian comic opera, English ballad and Savoy opera, North American operetta and musical comedy. In late 17th-century...
after her last show 'Speakeasy', based on the 17 John Gay balladopera The Beggar's Opera, in which she sang the theme song Kaze no machi no junjō na...
following the example of balladopera, the words of the songs were written to popular music; later burlesques mixed the music of opera, operetta, music hall...
This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first commonly...
fashions and practices and sometimes attempting, as in the creation of balladopera, to produce an indigenous tradition. However, arguably the most significant...
from popular tunes. In this respect such afterpieces anticipate the balladoperas of the 18th century. At the same time, the French masque was gaining...
now regarded as a genre of opera. It is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias which were often...
Beggar's Opera (Johann Christoph Pepusch). A satire of Italian opera seria based on a play by John Gay, the balladopera format of The Beggar's Opera has proved...
comic operas were produced that parodied popular songs of the time by performing them with modified lyrics. Comédie en vaudevilles and balladoperas are...
that evolved over several centuries through the 18th century when the BalladOpera and pantomime emerged in England and its colonies as the most popular...
albums and touring folk clubs and concert halls. He is noted for his ballad-opera The Transports, and has been acknowledged as a major influence by performers...
work. Victorian burlesque is one of several forms of burlesque. Like balladopera, burlesques featured musical scores drawing on a wide range of music...
romantic balladopera in four acts The raven or the fraternal test (Ravnen eller Broderprøven) (1832), Schubothske Boghandel, Copenhagen, magic opera in three...
current location, and the Royal Opera House opened in Covent Garden on 7 December 1732. John Gay's balladopera The Beggar's Opera ran for 62 performances in...
Goossens and Felix Harold White. Dramatic Charming Chloe, balladopera Kate, the Cabin Boy, balladopera (1923) The Story of the Willow Pattern Plate, comic...
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