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Real History of Opera

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

New series 1/4 Huw Edwards unveils the history behind some of opera's most famous plots, beginning with Puccini's Tosca - a story of love, politics, religion, sadism and murder, based on real events in Napoleonic-era Rome. Producer Catherine McGhee Repeated on Saturday at 3.30pm

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Huw Edwards
Producer:
Catherine McGhee
Source: Radio Times

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