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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Giuseppe Verdi

Composer of the Week: Giuseppe Verdi: Episode 4: Don Carlos

Giuseppe Verdi

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Episode 4: Don Carlos

Don Carlos

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Giuseppe Verdi, Don Carlos

Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the operas of Verdi with Don Carlos.

Donald Macleod continues to explore Verdi's operas with the epic masterpiece Don Carlos, for which there are eight possible 'authentic' versions.

Donald Macleod continues his exploration of Verdi's operas with Don Carlos, an epic tale of thwarted love that poses epic problems for directors. The historical Don Carlos was a tortured, tragic and misshapen young man in 16th-century Spain. Verdi's grand operatic version of his life, based, not for the first time, on a play by Schiller, turned out to have one of the most tortuous and protracted histories in all opera. As a result there are no fewer than eight possible 'authentic' versions of the score, so for anyone putting on a production of Don Carlos, it's rather a case of Let's Make an Opera! 

Producer: Chris Barstow.

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Donald Macleod explores the operas of Verdi

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