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Richard Bonynge
Australian conductor
Richard Bonynge talks to Joan Bakewell about his operatic .specialism - the bel canto repertoire - and describes how he persuaded his wife
Joan Sutherland that her soprano voice was higher than she thought and that she should give up her preferred Wagnerian repertoire in favour of music by Bellini and Donizetti. Music includes:
Bellini Vien, Diletto (I Puritani) Verdi Santo di Patria
Donizetti Mad Scene (Lucia di Lammermoor)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Bonynge
Conductor:
Richard Bonynge
Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Unknown:
Joan Sutherland
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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