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Artist of the Week: Margaret Price

on BBC Radio 3

Welsh soprano Margaret Price has triumphed in operatic roles created by Mozart and Verdi and is also well known as a lieder recitalist. She talks to Joan Bakewell about her early life and career, why she refused to enter competitions and has never had a singing teacher, and how her father wrote to major record companies to introduce his daughter. Including works by Mozart, Verdi and Schubert.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Joan Bakewell
Interviewee:
Margaret Price
Producer:
Gwawr Owen

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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