Grand GuIgnol or High Drama? Gordon Stewart presents four programmes which take the lid off Italian verismo - its seething passions, heart-throbbing emotions and lurid violence, as expressed through some of the hottest sets of vocal cords in the business.
3: Fatal Passions. This programme looks at those characters with their fingers on the auto-destruct button, with excerpts from La Gioconda, Turandot, Madama Butterfly,
Mefistofele, L'Arlesiana and La
Fanciulla del West. The voices include
Gina Cigna , Scotto, Caballe, Simionato, Ponselle, Gigli, Siepi and Ruffo. Repeat