REGENCY! Day 12 of 21
The Beggars’ Opera.
original Advertising playbill, Drury Lane Theatre London, 1816. A survivor of an ordinary stick up poster from the Regency period.
274mm x 160.
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The Beggars’ Opera was written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Pepusch.
Instead of the grand music and themes of opera, the work uses familiar tunes and characters that were ordinary people, hence the name. It cheerfully nicked songs by opera composers like Handel using only the catchiest & most popular of these. The audience could hum or sing along with the music and identify with the characters. The story satirised politics, poverty and injustice, focusing on the theme of corruption at all levels of society.
It was the favourite opera of the 18th & early nineteenth centuries.
REGENCY! 21 examples of Regency furniture & decorative arts, (mixed with a little architecture!), to please, tease & titillate, revealed over 21 days.
2020 marks the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, and the 200th of the Prince Regent becoming King.
Regency design was produced in times of war, for pleasure.
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