The twentieth programme in this series by HANNS HAMMEL-MANN and Michael ROSE is a study of Italian music in the late sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries and the emergence of Claudio Monte verdi as the pioneer of modern opera. The illustrations are mostly taken from L'incoronazione dt Poppea
Narration by GABRIEL WOOLF with RAYMOND HAYTER (baritone) and DESMOND DU PRÉ (lute) and illustrations from gramophone records
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES