Britten: The Beggar's Opera

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   The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Introduction: If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry (Beggar)
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   The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43: Overture
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   The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Through All the Employments of Life (Peachum)
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   The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Sir, Black Moll Hath Sent Word (Flich, Peachum)
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   The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind (Filch, Peachum)
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   The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But it is now high time to look about me (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
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   The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Women indeed are bitter bad judges … ev'ry Man handsom who is going to the Camp - if any wench
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   The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Was Captain Macheath here this morning? (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
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   The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: If Love the Virgin's Heart invade (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: A Maid is like the Golden ore (Mrs Peachum)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Come hither, Filch (Mrs Peachum, Filch)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I know as well as any of the fine ladies - Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre (Poll
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Our Polly is a sad slut! (Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Polly, Omnes)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Can Love be controlled by Advice? (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The girl shows such a readiness - O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed (Polly, Mrs Peachum,
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I, like a Ship in storms, was tossed (Polly, Mrs Peachum)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: A fox may steal your hens, Sir (Peachum, Mrs Peachum, Polly)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: O ponder well! Be not severe (Polly, Mrs Peachum)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Turtle thus with plaintive crying, her Lover dying (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Now I'm a Wretch Indeed! (Polly, Macheath, Omnes)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: My Heart Was So Free (Macheath, Polly)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast (Macheath, Polly, Omnes)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: O! What Pain It is to Part! (Polly, Macheath)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees (Macheath, Polly)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But pr'thee, Mat, what is become of thy brother Tom? (Ben Budge, Mat of the Mint, Jemmy Twitche
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Fill Ev'ry Glass, for Wine Inspires Us (Gentlemen of the Road)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Gentlemen, Well Met (Macheath, Mat of the Mint)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: I shall wish myself with you - Let us take the road (Macheath, Harry Paddington, Gentlemen of t
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: If the Heart of a Man is Depressed With Cares (Macheath)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome - Youth's the season made for joys (Macheath, Ladies of the To
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: Now pray, ladies, take your places (Macheath, Jenny Diver, Mrs Coaxer)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: It is your own choice - Before the barn-door crowing (Jenny Diver, Macheath, Dolly Trull, Suky
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: But to be sure, Sir - The Gamesters and Lawyers are jugglers alike (Jenny Diver, Betty Doxy, Ma
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act I: The gentlemen, ladies, lodges in Newgate - Constables, wait upon the Captain to his lodgings -
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Noble Captain, You Are Welcome (Lockit, Macheath)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Man May Escape From Rope and Gun (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: It is the Pleasure of All You Fine Men - How Cruel Are the Traytors (Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: The First Time at the Looking Glass (Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: In This Last Affair, Brother Peachum, We Are Agreed (Lockit, Peachum)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Such Language, Brother, Anywhere Else - When You Censure the Age (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Is Then His Fate Decreed, Sir? (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Though the Chaplain Was Out of the Way To-day (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Polly)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Thus When the Swallow Seeking Prey (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: If women's tongues can cease for an answer - I will not! - How happy could I be with either (M
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Cease Your Funning (Polly, Macheath, Lucy Lockit, Omnes)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Why How Now, Madam Flirt! (Lucy Lockit, Polly, Peachum, Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act II: Now Power on Earth Can E'er Divide (Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Lockit, Peachum, Omnes)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: To Be Sure, Wench, You Must Have Been Aiding and Abetting (Lockit, Lucy Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Dear Sir, Mention Not My Education (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Ungrateful Macheath! (Lucy Lockit, Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Thus Gamesters United in Friendship Are Found (Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Our scene doth represent a Gaming House - The modes of the Court so common are grown (Beggar,
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: The Coronation account, brother Peachum (Lockit, Peachum, Mrs Trapes)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: In the days of my youth I could bill like a dove (Mrs Trapes, Lockit, Peachum)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: In the days of my youth I could bill like a dove (Mrs Trapes, Beggar)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear (Lucy Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: I Have the Rat's-bane Ready (Lucy Lockit, Filch, Polly)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: A Curse Attends a Woman's Love (Polly, Lucy Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: When I Was Forced From Him (Polly, Lucy Lockit)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Come, Sweet Lass (Lucy Lockit, Polly)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Now Every Glimmering of Happiness is Lost (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath, Peachum)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Which Way Shall I Turn Me, How Can I Decide? (Macheath, Polly)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Dear, Dear Sir, Sink the Material Evidence (Polly)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: How then can you be a tyrant to me - When he holds up his hand arraigned for his life (Lucy L
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Ourselves, Like the Great, to Secure a Retreat (Lockit, Peachum)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: We are ready, Sir… - … to conduct you to the Old Bailey! (Lockit, Lucy Lockit, Polly, Macheat
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: O Cruel, Cruel Case! (Macheath, Jailer)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Would I Might Be Hanged! (Polly, Lucy Lockit, Macheath)
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: But surely you don't intend that Macheath shall really be executed? (Mat of the Mint, Beggar,
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    The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43, Act III: Thus I stand like a Turk, with his doxies around (Macheath, Mrs Peachum, Lucy Lockit, Polly,
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