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)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: You Base Man, You!
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 27: Thus When A Good Huswife Sees A Rat (A Lovely Lass To A Friar Came)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 28: How Cruel Are The Traitors ('Twas When The Sea Was Roaring)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 29: The First Time At The Looking-Glass (The Sun Has Loos'd His Weary Teams)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: In This Last Affair, Brother Peachum
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 30: When You Censure the Age (How Happy Are We)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Whence Come You, Hussy?
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 31: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? (Of A Noble Race Was Shenkin)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 32: You'll Think E'er Many Days Ensue
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Though The Ordinary Was Out Of The Way Today
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 33: If You At An Office Solicit Your Due (London Ladies)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Where Is My Dear Husband?
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 34: Thus When The Swallow Seeking Prey (All In The Downs)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 35: How Happy Could I Be With Either (Have You Heard Of A Frolicksome Ditty)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 36: I'm Bubbled (Irish Trot)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 37: Cease Your Funning
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 38: Why How Now, Madam Flirt? (Good-morrow, Gossip)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: Where's My Wench?
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 39: No Power On Earth Can E'er Divide (Irish Howl)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue: I Am Naturally Compassionate, Wife
- The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air 40: I Like The Fox Shall Grieve (The Lass Of Patie's Mill)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: To Be Sure, Wench
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 41: When Young At The Bar You First Taught Me To Score (If Love's A Sweet Passion)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 42: My Love Is All Madness & Folly (South Sea Ballad)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Peachum Then Intends To Outwit Me
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 43: Thus Gamesters United In Friendship Are Found (Packington's Pound)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Why, Boy, Thou Lookest As If Thou Wert Half Starv'd
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: I Am Sorry, Gentlemen
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 44: The Modes Of The Court So Common Are Grown (Lillibullero)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: The Coronation Account, Brother Peachum
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 45: What Gudgeons Are We Men! (Down In The North Country)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Dear Mrs Dye, Your Servant
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 46: In The Days Of My Youth (A Shepherd Kept Sheep)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Jealousy, Rage, Love & Fear
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 47: I'm Like A Skiff On The Ocean Tossed (One Evening, Having Lost My Way)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Dear Madam, Your Servant
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 48: When A Wife's In Her Pout (Now Roger, I'll Tell Thee, Because Thou'rt My Son)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 49: A Curse Attends That Woman's Love (O Bessy Bell)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 50: Among The Men, Coquets We Find (Would Fate To Me Belinda Give)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 51: Come, Sweet Lass (Come, Sweet Lass)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: All This Wheedling Of Lucy Cannot Be For Nothing
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Come, Miss Polly
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Set Your Heart To Rest, Captain
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 52: Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes(The Last Time I Went O'er The Moor)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 53: Which Way Shall I Turn Me? (Tom Tinker's My True Love)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 54: When My Hero In Court Appears (I Am A Poor Shepherd Undone)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 55: When He Holds Up His Hand (Ianthe The Lovely)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 56: Our Selves, Like The Great, To Secure A Retreat (A Cobbler There Was)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 57: The Charge Is Prepar'd (Bonny Dundee)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: Follow Them, Filch, To The Court
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 58: O Cruel, Cruel, Cruel Case! (Happy Groves)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 67: Since Laws Were Made Tor Ev'ry Degree (Green Sleeves)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: For My Having Broke Prison
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: My Dear Lucy, My Dear Polly
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 68: Would I Might Be Hang'd! (All You That Must Take A Leap)
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: But, Honest Friend
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Dialogue: So, It Seems, I Am Not Left To My Choice
- The Beggar's Opera: Act III. Air 69: Thus I Stand Like The Turk (Lumps Of Pudding)
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