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Music Matters: Rigoletto at ENO, Thea Musgrave

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Music: Classical

15/02/2014

Rigoletto at ENO, Thea Musgrave

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Rigoletto at ENO, Thea Musgrave

With Tom Service. Includes a review of Verdi's Rigoletto at ENO and composer Thea Musgrave

Presented by Tom Service. With a review of Christopher Alden's production of Rigoletto at English National Opera, plus an interview with Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave.

Tom Service and guests review Christopher Alden's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto at English National Opera. How will it compare with Jonathan Miller's classic production which has held the stage at ENO for so many years?

And as a major celebration of the work of Thea Musgrave gets under way at the Barbican in London, Tom meets the Scottish-American composer, now in her eighties, and finds out what drives her.

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