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Composer of the Week: Verdi

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Five First Nights
5/5. After much speculation and mounting excitement among the press and public, Verdi's penultimate opera, Otello, opened at La Scala, Milan, in February 1887, and proved a supreme expression of his lifelong worship of Shakespeare. Donald Macleod presents excerpts. Repeated from Friday at 12 noon

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Donald MacLeod
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