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The Real History of Opera

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n a new four-part series, Huw Edwards discovers low some of the great operatic masterpieces reflect :he political and social circumstances of their age. 1: Don Giovanni.At the heart of Mozart's tale of murder and revenge is a simple message of divine retribution - a message not lost on the troubled world of 18th-century Vienna, where Joseph II dream of a secular morality was fading fast. Producer Kerry Chapman

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