Lincoln's Inn Fields was the site for its 1728 premiere; the opera itself lampooned Robert Walpole's Whig administration, with characters such as the loquatious Mrs. Trapes, the fence Jeremy Peachum and the infamous highwayman Captain Macheath.
A sequel to this opera, entitled Polly, debuted one year later. Lincoln's Inn Fields was the site for its 1728 premiere; the opera itself lampooned Robert Walpole's Whig administration, with characters such as the loquatious Mrs. Trapes, the fence Jeremy Peachum and the infamous highwayman Captain Macheath. For ten points, what opera was scored by John Pepusch and written by John Gay, and was the inspiration for Kurt Weill's (VILES) Threepenny Opera?
A sequel to this opera, entitled Polly, debuted one year later.
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