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A programme on the arts What's the English for ' Libretto '
Music is an international language. but opera involves words as well. Should it be sung in the original - or in the language of the audience. as for example tonight at Sadler's Wells, when Handel's Italian opera Ottone is being performed in a new English translation?
BERNARD KEEFFE discusses With some of those most closely involved the pros and cons of opera in translation.
Producer PEGCY BACON
6.30-7.0 VHF Open University: see Radio 3 VHF on facing page

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Pegcy Bacon
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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