Anna Pollak OBE (1 May 1912 – 28 November 1996) was an English opera singer who sang leading mezzo-soprano roles primarily with the Sadlers Wells Opera Company and the English Opera Group.
 She created several roles in 20th century operas including Bianca in Benjamin Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia" and Lady Nelson in Lennox Berkeley's "Nelson".
The demi-cannon was a medium-sized cannon, similar to but slightly larger than a culverin and smaller than a regular 42 lb (19 kg) cannon, developed in the early 17th century.
 A full cannon fired a 42-pound shot, but these were discontinued in the 18th century as they were seen as too unwieldy.
 The lower tiers of 17th century English warships were usually equipped with demi-cannons.
Wozzeck (op. 16) is a 1926 German-language opera in 18 scenes and one epilogue by Manfred Gurlitt after the fragmentary "Woyzeck" by Georg Büchner.
 It was premiered 22 April 1926 in Bremen, four months after the better known opera "Wozzeck" by Alban Berg had been premiered at the Berlin State Opera on 14 December 1925.
 The two composers were unaware of each others projects, being among many artists stimulated by the publication of Büchner's play.
 Berg, unsettled by his publisher Universal Edition also publishing another opera on the same material so quickly reviewed Gurlitt's piano score, and in a letter to Erich Kleiber noted Gurlitt's work's quality and originality, but found the "broth" watered down.
 This verdict reflects Berg's own Wagnerian influences, while Gurlitt was nearer to the aesthetics of Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill.
Hogarth's House is the former country home of the 18th century English artist William Hogarth in Chiswick, adjacent to the A4.
 The House now belongs to the London Borough of Hounslow and is open to visitors as a historic house museum free of charge.
 Chiswick is now one of London's western suburbs, but in the 18th century it was a large village or small town quite separate from the metropolis, but within easy reach of it.
 Today the house is a Grade 1 listed building.
The "Alabama Song"—also known as "Moon of Alabama", "Moon over Alabama", and "Whisky Bar"—is an English version of a song written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play "Little Mahagonny".
 It was reused for the 1930 opera "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" and has been notably covered by The Doors and David Bowie.
The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper ) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann, adapted from John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, "The Beggar's Opera", with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling.
 Although Hauptmann produced 80 to 90 percent of the text, Brecht suppressed this and assumed sole credit, and is usually listed as sole author in printed versions.
A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained.
 The name is derived from the 16th century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642.
 In a large 16th to early 18th century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could "withdraw" for more privacy.
 It was often off the great chamber (or the great chamber's descendant, the state room or salon) and usually led to a formal, or "state" bedroom.
This is an inclusive list of opera festivals and summer opera seasons, and music festivals which have opera productions.
 This list may have some overlap with list of early music festivals.
 Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition, and has long been performed for audiences on a large-scale format.
 It started in Italy at the end of the 16th century and soon spread through the rest of Europe.
 In the 18th century, Italian opera continued to dominate most of Europe (except France), attracting foreign composers such as Handel.
 Opera seria was the most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his "reform" operas in the 1760s.
 Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera is Mozart, and his music is at times the featured attraction of opera and early music festivals.
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"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife", originally "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer", is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama "Die Dreigroschenoper", or, as it is known in English, "The Threepenny Opera".
 It premiered in Berlin in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm.
 The song has become a popular standard recorded by many artists, including a US and UK number one hit for Bobby Darin in 1959.
Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.
 He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht.
 With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work "The Threepenny Opera", which included the ballad "Mack the Knife".
 Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose.
 He also wrote several works for the concert hall.
 He became a United States citizen on August 27, 1943.

Question: Kurt Weill was known for producing the opera adapted from which 18th century English opera?
Answer: The Beggar's Opera