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Composers of the Week: the Court of Catherine the Great

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Presented by Donald Macleod. Readings by Tessa Worsley and John Turner. 3: At the Opera
Music from Giovanni
Palsiello The Barber of Seville, premiered in St
Petersburg in 1782 and a European hit in the following months. Plus home-grown works, including music by Mikhail Matlnsky , Fomln's melodrama Orpheus and Euridice and Vaslll
Pashekvlch's The Early Reign of Oleg - with a libretto by Catherine the Great herself.

Contributors

Presented By:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Tessa Worsley
Unknown:
John Turner.
Music By:
Mikhail Matlnsky
Source: Radio Times

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