Grand Guignol or High Drama? Gordon Stewart presents four programmes which take the lid off Italian verismo - its seething passions, heart-throbbing emotions and lurid violence, as expressed through some of the hottest sets of vocal chords in the business.
3: Fatal Passions. This programme looks at those characters with their fingers on auto-destruct, with excerpts from La Gioconda, Turandot, Madama Butterfly, Mefistofele, L'Arlesiana and La Fanciulla del
West. The voices include Gina Cigna. Scotto, Caballe, Simionato, Ponselle, Gigli, Siepi and Ruffo.