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Friday Feature: Orpheus Ascending

on BBC Radio 3

How Gaetano Meo walked from Laurenzano to London between spring 1864 and autumn 1865 armed only with a harp, was introduced to Dante Gabriel Rossetti by an Italian barber, became model and artist, fell in love and married, lost his favourite daughter to
Edward Gordon Craig , was reconciled to her with the help of Ellen Terry , and left a Byzantine mosaic in Kensington.
The story is told in his own words and those of his grandson Edward Anthony
Craig, with a little help from Lucio Sponza , Maria Teresa Benedetti and Gianfausto
Rosoli. With the voices of Jill Balcon , David Graham , Becky Hindley , Joshua Towb and Giusi Saija. Skaila Kanga (harp)
Producers Piers Plowright and Giuseppe Rocca

Contributors

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Gaetano Meo
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Edward Gordon Craig
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Ellen Terry
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Edward Anthony
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Lucio Sponza
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Maria Teresa
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Jill Balcon
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David Graham
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Becky Hindley
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Joshua Towb
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Giusi Saija.
Harp:
Skaila Kanga
Producers:
Piers Plowright
Producers:
Giuseppe Rocca

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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