In the last of the series,
Michael Berkeley talks to Lord Harewood, whose varied career has encompassed the directorships of the Royal Opera House, English National Opera North and the Edinburgh Festival, and the presidencies of the British Board of Film Classification and Leeds United
Football Club. Lord Harewood's love of opera is well known: "I had an enthusiasm for the human voice when I was a little boy. I came to opera through the gramophone and then seeing it on stage. Then I became interested in opera itself - not just the singers who sang it and the sounds they made, but the way opera works and the way composers work. It's an extraordinarily fulfilling experience and I've gone on thinking that for many years." But apart from operatic excerpts by Britten,
Prokofiev, Janacek, Verdi and Wagner, his choices include a Schubert song, an excerpt from
Schoenberg's Gurrelieder and the slow movement of Beethoven's
Symphony No 9 in 0 minor (Choral). Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated Friday 2pm