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Les Vepres Siciliennes

on BBC Radio 3

(The Sicilian Vespers)
Grand opera in five acts Music by Verdi
Words by EUGENESCRIBE and CHARLESDUVEYRIER (sung in French)
Palermo, Sicily, in 1282 and the ringing of the vesper bell -for the wedding of the French governors daughter-is the signal for the mass slaughter by Sicilian patriots of their French occupiers.
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BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by MARIO ROSSI Repetiteur VIOLA TUNNARD Producer JULIAN BUDDEN
Acts 1. 2 and 3 (Act 3, Sc 2: Ballet des Quatre Saisons: conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE)
4.25* Interval Reading
4.30* Les Vepres Siciliennes Acts 4 and 5

Contributors

Conducted By:
Mario Rossi
Repetiteur:
Vioi.A Tunnard
Producer:
Julian Budden

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