Tuscany Revisited
Byron, Shelley, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf were all at some point lured to Tuscany in northern Italy. Writers, artists and performers from all over the world still make the pilgrimage for peace and inspiration. This evening Omnibus discovers contemporary artists at work in the area. Musica Nel Chiostro is an opera festival in Batignano. Made up entirely of British singers, the festival celebrated its tenth anniversary in a tumbledown 17th-century convent with a new opera by Stephen Oliver based on the story of Beauty and the Beast. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Tuscany, the Australian painter Jeffrey Smart reflects on his own obsession with the environment. In contrast to the opera singers his own view is sharply realistic - but equally as beautiful. Sound BRUCE GALLAWAY Film cameramen
COLIN WALDECK , JOHN SENNETT Film editor CHRIS SWAYNE
Producer CHRISTOPHER SWANN Editor IAN SQUIRES