The second of three programmes in which Richard Osborne traces the fortunes of the Vienna State Opera company in the decade following the bombing of its home theatre in 1945, with reminiscences from Sena Jurinac.
Music by Mozart, Smetana, Verdi and Strauss is sung by Erich Kunz, Anton Dermota, Wilma Lipp, Walther Ludwig, Sena Jurinac, Ljuba Welitsch, Ludwig Weber and Hilde Rossel-Majdan .