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A Night at the Opera

BBC Radio 2
on BBC Radio 2

or The Carmen Touch
Tonight's opera gala features highlights from some of the greatest operas in the French, German and Italian traditions. Your host, direct from the Barbican Hall, London, is
John Dunn , and the programme includes excerpts from
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg by RICHARD WAGNER. BIZET'S Carmen and Rigoletto by GIUSEPPE VERDI. With tonight's star singers
Anne Williams King (soprano) Sirry Ella Magnus (mezzo) Jeffrey Lawton (tenor)
Bonaventura Bottone (tenor) Neil Howlett (baritone) the Ambrosian Opera Chorus chorusmaster John McCarthy the BBC Concert Orchestra led by MARTIN LOVEDAY conducted by James Lockhart and the Fanfare Trumpeters of the Band of the Scots Guards Producer JOHN LANGRIBGE (In association with Raymond Gubbay Ltd)
8.20-8.40*
Ann Mann looks at the life and career of one of radio's best-loved artists, Albert Semprini , on the eve of his 80th birthday. Producer JOHN LANGRIDGE

Contributors

Unknown:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Richard Wagner.
Unknown:
Giuseppe Verdi.
Soprano:
Sirry Ella Magnus
Tenor:
Jeffrey Lawton
Tenor:
Bonaventura Bottone
Baritone:
Neil Howlett
Unknown:
John McCarthy
Unknown:
Martin Loveday
Conducted By:
James Lockhart
Producer:
John Langribge
Unknown:
Ann Mann
Artists:
Albert Semprini
Producer:
John Langridge
Source: Radio Times

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