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Opera in Action

on BBC Radio 3

Graeme Kay presents the first of six programmes about nationality. He looks at how countries have been treated in opera and compares the ways in which composers, native or otherwise, have portrayed a country's history and people.
1: Scotland. Music includes excerpts from Donizetti's Lucia d
Lammermoor, Bizet's La Jolie Rile de Perth, MacCunn's Jeanie Deans , Verdi's Macbeth and Weir's The
Vanishing Bridegroom. Producer Kerry Chapman

Contributors

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Graeme Kay
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Jeanie Deans
Producer:
Kerry Chapman

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