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The Beggars Opera is an opera by Benjamin Britten.

Answer 2. The Beggar's Opera is a Ballad opera written in 1728 by John Gay. Benjamin Britten created an adaptation of it in the late 1940s. The same basic story and characters appear in Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera.

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