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 %
12 May 1774 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Comus, The Soldier Tired of War's Alarms, The Wapping Landlady, Sixfold Hornpipe No No Yes £241 1s 83% N/A
24 May 1774 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Mother Shipton Yes No Yes £247 9s 66% N/A
26 May 1774 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Midas Yes No No £124 8s 84% N/A
26 May 1774 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Miller of Mansfield, Bucks Have At Ye All No No Yes £267 13s 16% N/A
05 Oct 1774 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Englishman in Paris, The Provencale No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Oct 1774 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Sylphs, The Provencale Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Oct 1774 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, No Ones Enemy but His Own, The Reel No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Nov 1774 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Cross Purposes, The Reel No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Jan 1775 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Druids No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Feb 1775 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Druids No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Apr 1775 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Druids No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1775 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Druids No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1775 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The What DYe Call It, The Country Macaroni Assembly, Boadicea Queen of Britain, Minuet, The British Bacchanalian, Wooden Shoe Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
31 Oct 1775 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Orpheus and Eurydice Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Mar 1776 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Lying Valet, The Grand Garland Dance No No Yes £160 10s N/A N/A
04 May 1776 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Man of Quality, Minuet Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1776 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Bon Ton, The Gardeners No No Yes £73 17s N/A N/A
18 May 1776 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Cross Purposes, The Humours of the Newmarket Races No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Sep 1776 Covent Garden News From Parnassus, The Beggar's Opera, Cross Purposes, Hornpipe, Country Dance No No No £279 6d 100% N/A
30 Sep 1776 Covent Garden News From Parnassus, The Beggar's Opera, Miss in her Teens, Hornpipe, Country Dance No No No £291 15s 100% N/A
04 Oct 1776 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Englishman in Paris, Minuet, Hornpipe, Country Dance No No No £284 10s 100% N/A
24 Oct 1776 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Upholsterer, Hornpipe, Country Dance No No No £237 7s 6d 61% N/A
26 Oct 1776 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Golden Pippin, Hornpipe, Country Dance, The Pilgrim No No No £276 3s 6d 63% N/A
28 Oct 1776 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Comus, Hornpipe, Country Dance, The Pilgrim, Sweet Echo No No No £289 6d 60% N/A
03 Jan 1777 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Country Wife, Hornpipe, Country Dance No No No £219 5s 50% N/A
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