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The Real History of Opera

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Huw Edwards looks behind the scenes of four favourite operas. 2: La Traviata. Through a simple tale of doomed love, Verdi satirised the new capitalism of Napoleon Ill's Second Empire, questioning the morality of the rising European middle class and creating one of the stage's greatest proto-feminist heroines in the process. Producer Martin Smith

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Huw Edwards
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Martin Smith
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