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.