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The Early Music Show

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

The First New World Opera 2/2. Catherine Bott looks at the first opera ever to be performed in the New World. Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco's La Purpura de la Rosa received its premiere in 1701 in Lima, Peru.

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Catherine Bott
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

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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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