Now and then: ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ through the centuries

Music can take you to another world, but it also can help you understand the world around you. John Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera” opening tonight at 7 p.m. does just this. “We often think of (opera) as this extravagant excessive thing that we don’t understand because it’s antiquated,” states Copeland Woodruff, director of Opera Studies READ MORE