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 %
21 Jun 1802 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Three Weeks after Marriage No No Yes £78 16s N/A N/A
30 Sep 1802 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Citizen No No No £301 9s 100% N/A
11 Nov 1802 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Fortune's Frolic No No No £154 19s 37% N/A
22 Jun 1803 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Devil to Pay No No Yes £520 15s 100% N/A
13 Sep 1803 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Citizen No No No £210 3s 6d 100% N/A
04 Apr 1804 Drury Lane Beggar's Opera, Love and Magic No No No £116 9s 25% N/A
24 Apr 1804 Covent Garden The Beggars' Opera, Raising the Wind No No Yes £621 14s 56% N/A
15 Jan 1805 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The United Britons, The Citizen No No No £221 7s 6d 41% N/A
11 May 1805 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, Bon Ton No No No £175 19s 6d 24% N/A
08 Oct 1806 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Mistake Upon Mistake No No No £394 8s 6d 100% N/A
10 Oct 1806 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Valentine & Orson No No No £354 13s 100% N/A
15 Oct 1806 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Valentine & Orson No No No £431 19s 100% N/A
17 Oct 1806 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Valentine & Orson No No No £348 8s 100% N/A
22 Oct 1806 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Valentine & Orson No No No £214 6s 61% N/A
24 Oct 1806 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Raising the Wind No No No £324 4s 100% N/A
06 Nov 1806 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, All the World's a Stage No No No £265 18s 52% N/A
11 Nov 1806 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Raising the Wind No No No £213 14s 6d 49% N/A
09 Dec 1806 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, The Deserts of Arabia No No No £185 13s 47% N/A
16 Dec 1806 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Arbitration No No No £131 19s 42% N/A
01 May 1807 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Mother Goose No No No £208 3s 6d 52% N/A
20 Jun 1807 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, The Jew and the Doctor No No Yes £376 10s 100% N/A
16 Sep 1807 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Hornpipe in Fetters, Raising the Wind No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Oct 1807 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Hornpipe in Fetters, Arbitration; or Free and Easy No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Oct 1807 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, Hornpipe in Fetters, Too Friendly by Half No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Jan 1808 Covent Garden Beggar's Opera, Harlequin in his Element No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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