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The Immortal Bohemian
(Winner of the 1987 Sony Radio Award for Best Classical Music Programme)
Variations on the life and music of Giacomo Puccini
The second of two programmes compiled and translated by MICHAEL OLIVER Evviva Puccini ! with and / know in my bones that either I shall finish "Turandot' and it will be a fiasco, or I shall not finish it and it will be staged incomplete - and someone will come on to the stage and say to the audience: 'At this point the maestro died. '
Hopefully undergoing a painful cure for a tumour of the throat in a Brussels clinic, Puccini still struggles to complete his 12th opera, Turandot, for its world premiere at La Scala, Milan, to be conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
With GWEN CHERRELL , PAULINE LETTS
RONALD HERDMAN. TIM REYNOLDS EDWARD DE SOUZA and MANNING WILSON
Technical presentation by NICK RUSSELL-PAVIER and MARK CALLUM
Directed by JOHN POWELL Stereo (R) revised

Contributors

Translated By:
Michael Oliver
Translated By:
Evviva Puccini
Conducted By:
Arturo Toscanini.
Unknown:
Gwen Cherrell
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Ronald Herdman.
Unknown:
Manning Wilson
Presentation By:
Nick Russell-Pavier
Presentation By:
Mark Callum
Directed By:
John Powell
Puccini:
Norman Rodway
his wife, Elvira:
Jill Balcon
Source: Radio Times

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