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Shakespeare's Opera

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

A four-part survey of some of the many ways composers have taken
Shakespeare's plays as the basis for music. In the last of the series,
Peter Conrad looks at the tragedies -
Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and King Lear- and finds versions by Verdi,
Rossini, Ambroise Thomas , Strauss, Wolfgang Rihm , Aribert Reimann and Shostakovich.
Producer Piers Burton-Page

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Conrad
Unknown:
Ambroise Thomas
Unknown:
Wolfgang Rihm
Unknown:
Aribert Reimann
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page
Source: Radio Times

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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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