European Opera Centre

We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. A filthy beggar has scraped together some folksongs, stolen a story and written an opera. Crooks are heroes, wrong is right, and some of those tunes sound suspiciously like something you’ve heard down the pub. Meet Polly Peachum, Lucy Lockit and the original Mack the Knife (Macheath) in The Beggar’s Opera: the show that’s been outraging and entertaining audiences in equal measure since 1728.