Lost in the City of Waters. Jeremy Irons and Anna Massey explore the splendour and decadence of Venice through the poetry and prose of Longfellow, Browning, Thomas Mann , Marcel Proust and others. With music by Luigi Nono, Gounod, Vivaldi, Hahn, Liszt and Gabrieli.
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