The Beggar's Opera (1728)

Composer
Johann Christoph Pepusch
Author
John Gay
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
Performance Medium
Musical
Associated work receipts The physical apparatus employed on and around the stage to support, enhance and sometimes substitute the performers' enactment of drama.
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
£77,752 19s 7d £50,503 1s 6d (65%) £27,249 18s 1d (35%)
1732 - 1809
£77,752 19s 7d - (100%) £50,503 1s 6d (65%) £27,249 18s 1d (35%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
777 470 307
1732 - 1809
777 470 307
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
03 Nov 1736 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Apollo and Daphne or The Burgomaster Trickd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Dec 1736 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1736 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Dec 1736 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, English Maggot No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, English Maggot No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, English Maggot No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 Jan 1737 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Necromancer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Burgomaster Trick'd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Jan 1737 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Fall of Phaeton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Jan 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Burgomaster Trick'd Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Feb 1737 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Mar 1737 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Walking Statue or The Devil in the Wine Cellar, Comic Dance, As I Saw Fair Clara, Glover's Dance of Sailors, Hornpipe Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Mar 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Mock Doctor, English Maggot, Figure Dance, Harlequin No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
15 Apr 1737 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Devil to Pay, Scots Dance, Comic Dance, Two Pierrots No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 May 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The What Dye Call It, Harlequin, English Maggot, Wooden Shoe Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Oct 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Lilliputians No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Oct 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Oct 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Harlots Progress No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Oct 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Harlots Progress No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Nov 1737 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Fall of Phaeton, Grand Ballet in Grotesque Characters No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Jan 1738 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Harlequin Grand Volgi No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Feb 1738 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Harlequin Grand Volgi No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Apr 1738 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Dragon of Wantley, French Peasant, French Peasant, New Pantomime Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Apr 1738 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Devil to Pay, Punch, Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
31 May 1738 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Virgin Unmasked, La Pieraite, Flanderkins, Hornpipe, Punch, Saraband No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 Sep 1738 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Dragon of Wantley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Oct 1738 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Harlots Progress, Hornpipe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Nov 1738 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Robin Goodfellow Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Dec 1738 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Fall of Phaeton Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Jan 1739 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Mock Doctor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Apr 1739 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Punches Dances, Grand Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Apr 1739 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Harlequin Shipwreckd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1739 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Margery No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 May 1739 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Mock Doctor, Come Let Us Prepare, Pierots, Hornpipe, On on My Dear Brethren Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
10 Aug 1739 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Mock Doctor, The Modern Free Masons' Song, Hornpipe, Drunken Peasant No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 Sep 1739 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Nov 1739 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Harlequin Shipwreckd Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Jan 1740 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Harlequin Shipwreckd Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Apr 1740 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Harlequin Shipwreckd, Hornpipe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Apr 1740 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Parting Lovers, Peasants, Comic Ballet, Grand Ballet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 May 1740 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Tragedy of Tragedies, La Tambourine, Water Music, Hornpipe, Two Pierots Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 Oct 1740 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Robin Goodfellow No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Oct 1740 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Mock Doctor, L'Allamande No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Oct 1740 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, L'Allamande, Hornpipe No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Oct 1740 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Devil to Pay, Hornpipe, Les Characteres de la Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Oct 1740 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Mock Doctor, Hornpipe, Les Characteres de la Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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