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Performing Verdi

BBC Radio 3
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Today Rodney Milnes talks to conductor Mark Elder about Verdi's late
Shakespearian masterpiece Otello, and in particularthe special pleasures and challenges of performing Verdi in English. The recording featured in this programme is Mark Elder 's own, made live at English National Opera with the veteran British tenor Charles Craig as the tormented moor.

Contributors

Talks:
Rodney Milnes
Conductor:
Mark Elder
Unknown:
Mark Elder
Tenor:
Charles Craig
Source: Radio Times

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