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Composer of the Week: Verdi

BBC Radio 3
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In each programme this week,
Humphrey Burton takes a different opera by Verdi and looks at it from the point of view of a different practitioner in the opera world. Today he talks to conductor Sir Georg Solti about
Simon Boccanegra , a work which underwent extensive revision 25 years after its premiere, and introduces excerpts from Solti's own recording, starring Kiri Te Kanawa and Leo Nucci. Repeated from last Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
Georg Solti
Unknown:
Simon Boccanegra
Unknown:
Kiri Te Kanawa
Unknown:
Leo Nucci.
Source: Radio Times

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