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Front Row: Rolando Villazón, Kaiser Chiefs, Grey Gardens

Rolando Villazón, Kaiser Chiefs, Grey Gardens

03/06/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Rolando Villazón, Kaiser Chiefs, Grey Gardens

Rolando Villazón on opera and pop and Kaiser Chiefs on their pick and mix new album.

Tenor Rolando Villazón talks about recovering from illness. Kaiser Chiefs discuss their pick and mix new album. Jane Treays on the 1975 classic 'non-fiction feature' Grey Gardens.

With Kirsty Lang

Tenor Rolando Villazón has just performed an acclaimed Werther at the Royal Opera House, is releasing a crossover album of Songs From The Movies and is about to appear in a second series of the TV show Popstar to Operastar. Villazon discusses juggling his populist ventures with the demands of his operatic career, and the risky surgery he underwent which could have led to him losing his voice forever.


Kaiser Chiefs' new album The Future is Medieval provides twenty tracks on a website and asks listeners to make their own selection of ten tracks. Ricky Wilson and Simon Rix discuss why they've adopted this approach.

The Tony awards will be held at the end of next week and once again this year British theatre which has transferred to Broadway has several nominations. Tom Morris, Artistic Director at the Bristol Old Vic, who is up for best director for his production of War Horse, and David Babani, Artistic Director of the Menier Chocolate Factory, who is proud of their non-subsidy status, discuss the pros and cons of public subsidy in the theatre. 

One of the big events of this year's Sheffield Documentary Festival is an outdoor screening of Grey Gardens, the 1975 'non-fiction feature' about the reclusive aunt and cousin of Jackie Onassis who lived in squalor in their dilapidated East Hampton home. Documentary film-maker Jane Treays reassesses the Maysles Brothers' film 35 years on.

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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