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Proms Composer of the Week: Verdi

BBC Radio 3
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In each programme this week,
Humphrey Burton takes a different opera by Verdi and looks at it from the point of view of a different practitioner from the opera world.
Today he talks to theatre and opera director Sir Richard Eyre about the psychology of Verdi's middle-period opera La Traviata and introduces excerpts from the recording of Eyre's own production which starred Angela Gheorghiu.
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Director:
Sir Richard Eyre
Unknown:
Angela Gheorghiu.
Source: Radio Times

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