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Afternoon Concert: Music for the Theatre: Episode 10

Episode 10

Music for the Theatre

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Music for the Theatre, Episode 10

Penny Gore presents Massenet's opera Herodiade, performed at the Flanders Opera in Ghent.

Penny Gore presents a series featuring theatre music. With a performance of Massenet's opera Herodiade, given at the Flanders Opera in Ghent.

Continuing this week's theme of religious theatre music, Penny Gore presents Massenet's opera Herodiade, based on a novella by Flaubert and telling the story of Salome and John the Baptist. A recording of the recent staging at the Flanders Opera House in Ghent.

Massenet: Herodiade

Salome ..... Carmen Giannattasio (soprano),
Herodias ..... Julia Gertseva (mezzo-soprano),
John the Baptist ..... Zoran Todorovich (tenor),
Herod ..... Philippe Rouillon (baritone),
Phanuel ..... Petri Lindroos (bass),
Vitellius ..... Igor Bakan (baritone),
A High Priest ..... Thierry Vallier (baritone),
A Young Babylonian ..... Julianne Gearhart (soprano),

Flanders Opera Chorus and Symphony Orchestra,
Dmitri Jurowski (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Music for the Theatre

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