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John Gay male, deceased (1732): Fabulist, buried at Westminster Abbey, poet, Playwright, dramatist, English…The Beggar's Opera; John Gay (30 June,1685 - 4 December,1732) was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for "The Beggar's Opera" (1728), set to music by...

Johann Christoph Pepusch male, deceased (1752): German, libretto, buried at Brompton Cemetery, basso continuo, flute, violin…The Beggar's Opera; Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667- 20 July, 1752) was a German composer. At age 14, he was appointed to the Prussian court. About 1700, he settled in...

Peter Pears male, deceased (1986): Alumni of the Royal College of Music, The Beggar's Opera, From suffolk, Old Lancing, singer, Knights Bachelor…the turn of the screw, Opera Singer; Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (Farnham, June 22 1910 - Aldeburgh, April 3 1986) was an English tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin...

Jack Sheppard male, deceased (1724): executions by Great Britain, hanged, Ghostwritten, The Beggar's Opera, Tyburn, Tyburn, London; Jack Sheppard was a notorious English robber, burglar and thief of early 18th century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a...

Janet Baker female, 76 years old: Dame Janet Abbott Baker, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, diva, FRSA, English Mezzo-soprano, La Calisto…Glyndebourne Festival Opera, The Beggar's Opera, Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, the Composer, Oxford University Opera Club; Dame Janet Abbott Baker CH DBE FRSA (born August 21, 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer. She was...

Lavinia Fenton female, deceased (1760): Westcombe, St Alfege's Church, Greenwich, Westcombe Park, Beggars Opera, greenwich, Lavinia Paulet, Duchess of Bolton…The Orphan, Beggar's Opera, The Beggar's Opera; Lavinia Paulet, Duchess of Bolton (1708 - 24 January 1760), known by her stagename as Lavina Fenton, was an English actress. She was probably the...

Francesca Cuzzoni female, deceased (1770): The Beggar's Opera, Opera Singer, aria, handel, Italian, Prima donna; Francesca Cuzzoni (1700 - 1770) was an Italian soprano. In her youth, she studied with Francesco Lanzi. Cuzzoni was known as a prima donna: on...

John Frederick Lampe male, deceased (1751): The Beggar's Opera, Henry Carey, Opera composer, Pyramus and Thisbe, bassoon, Thomas Arne…The Dragon of Wantley; John Frederick Lampe (1703 - 1751) was a musician. He was born in Saxony, but came to England in 1724 and played the bassoon in opera houses. His...

Nigel Playfair male, deceased (1934): stage actor, British, BBC, knight, hammersmith, shakespeare…the way of the world, The Beggar's Opera; Sir Nigel Playfair was the actor-manager of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, in the 1920s. Playfair studied at University College, Oxford....

Rose Hill female, deceased (2003): The Bank Raiders, Madame Fanny La Fan, le nozze di figaro, glyndebourne, Soubrette, Sadler's Wells Opera…The Beggar's Opera, English National Opera; Rose Hill was a British actress. She started her career as a soprano in 1939 singing, at Sadler's Wells Opera (later English National Opera) in...

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