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Title: Beggar's Opera
Contributor: Unknown (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: San José State University Archives Photograph Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives department. http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/special_coll/index.htm
Description: Written on verso: "The Beggar's Opera; May '61." Photograph shows drama department students during a theatrical production of the Beggar's Opera.
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative (singing like speech). The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
7.5 X 9.5 in.
Identifier: islandora:81_674
filename: ua_beggars_002
oclc: 601743161
islandora: 81_674
Language: English
Subject: Campus Life
Actors
Actresses
Costumes
Theatrical productions
San Jose State College
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: San Jose State University Archives Photograph Collection

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