Three programmes in which Gordon Stewart follows the comings and goings of opera characters as singers move on and off the stage. 2: Exit, Stage Left
Verdi's Falstaff and Mozart's
Cherubino go out through the windows, while Offenbach's Greek gods go to hell, passing
Monteverdi's Apollo on the way up with his son Orfeo. Puccini, Sullivan and Strauss are among the other composers getting the creatures of their imagination to walk into the wings to make a dramatic point.