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Proms Composer of the Week: Verdi

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

In each programme this week,
Humphrey Burton takes a different opera by Verdi and looks at it from the point of view of a different practitioner from the opera world.
Today he talks to the distinguished Verdian tenor Dennis O'Neill about the personal drama in Verdi's late grand opera Aida and introduces excerpts from it starring
Maria Callas , Carlo Bergonzi , Leontyne Price and Jon Vickers.
Repeated next Friday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Tenor:
Dennis O'Neill
Unknown:
Maria Callas
Unknown:
Carlo Bergonzi
Unknown:
Jon Vickers.
Source: Radio Times

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