Jeremy Sams presents a personal selection of operatic delights, familiar and unfamiliar, sublime and ridiculous. Each programme takes as its launching pad an idea from Saturday's Opera on 3. La Serenissima. This programme focuses on the romantic city of Venice, site of the first public opera house, scene of many major operatic first performances and setting for many other operas. Music includes works by Monteverdi, Verdi, Britten and Offenbach.