Adelina Patti at Craig-y-Nos
The most celebrated and most expensive prima-donna of her time, who demanded and got £1,000 a concert in the 1880s, lived for over 40 years at Craig-y-Nos Castle in the Upper Swansea Valley in Wales. She became and remained a legend in the district. Here she built her private opera house and made those early gramophone records, today's faint echoes of a voice that once captured the whole world of Victorian music. with and a section of the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra leader COLIN STAVELEY conducted by David Lloyd-Jones
Director ARTHUR WILLIAMS Written and produced by GETHYN STOODLEY THOMAS BBC Cymru/Wales