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en-wikipedia-org-5983		The Beggar's Opera - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4317	373	72	The Beggar's Opera[1] is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. For his original production in 1728, Gay intended all the songs to be sung without any accompaniment, adding to the shocking and gritty atmosphere of his conception.[8] However, a week or so before the opening night, John Rich, the theatre director, insisted on having Johann Christoph Pepusch, a composer associated with his theatre, write a formal French overture (based on two of the songs in the opera, including a fugue based on Lucy's 3rd act song "I'm Like A Skiff on the Ocean Toss'd") and also to arrange the 69 songs. "The Beggar's Opera, An 18th-Century Satire", Archived 26 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times, 10 May 1990, accessed 6 November 2009 ^ 1948 Benjamin Britten version of The Beggar's Opera Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine at the Guide to Musical Theatre	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5983.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5983.txt