The Beggar's Wedding
The Beggar's Wedding is a 1729 ballad opera by the Irish writer Charles Coffey. Part of a boom in ballad operas following the success of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera", it originally premiered at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin in March 1729 before appearing in London at the Haymarket Theatre on 29 May 1729 The original Dublin cast included Richard Elrington.
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ballad opera
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Charles Coffey
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John Gay
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The Beggar's Opera
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Smock Alley Theatre
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Dublin
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London
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Haymarket Theatre
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Richard Elrington
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The Beggar's Wedding
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1729-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1729
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1729-03-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
March 1729
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1729-05-29T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
29 May 1729
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librettist
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