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The Birth of an Opera

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Tannhauser, Wagner's Problem Child by GEOFFREY SKELTON
What was it about his opera Tannhauser that left Wagner to the end of his life so dissatisfied?
Producer LAURIE JOHN
(A new gramophone recording of Tannhfiuser: Sunday 7 May) Aubrey Beardsley - reproduced by courtesy oj F. J. Martin Dent

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Skelton
Producer:
Laurie John
Unknown:
Aubrey Beardsley
Narrator:
John Glen
Wagner:
Anthony Jacobs
Minna Wagner:
Olive Gregg
Liszt:
John Westbrook
Baudelaire:
John Westbrook
Source: Radio Times

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