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12/02/2015

Cagnoni - Don Bucefalo

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert

Verity Sharp presents Antonio Cagnoni's comic opera Don Bucefalo and music by Hoddinott.

Verity Sharp presents a performance of Antonio Cagnoni's comic opera Don Bucefalo from the Wexford Festival. Plus the BBC NOW in Hoddinott's Euphonium Concerto.

Verity Sharp presents today's opera matinee: Don Bucefalo, a comic opera by Antonio Cagnoni (1828 - 1896) in a performance from the Wexford Festival about a singing teacher who attempts to compose and stage an opera complete with artistic rivalry, marital jealousy and the return of a long-lost husband. Plus the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Hoddinott's Euphonium Concerto with the extraordinarily virtuosic David Childs as soloist.

Cagnoni: Don Bucefalo (melodramma giocoso in three acts)
Don Bucefalo ..... Filippo Fontana (tenor)
Rosa, Carlino's wife ..... Marie-Eve Munger (soprano)
Agata, a peasant woman ..... Jennifer Davis (mezzo-soprano)
Gianetta, a peasant woman ..... Kezia Bienek (soprano)
Don Marco Bomba, the elderly local squire ..... Davide Bartolucci (bass)
Count Belprato, Rosa's lover ..... Matthew Newlin (tenor)
Carlino, a soldier ..... Peter Davoren (tenor)
Wexford Festival Opera Chorus
Wexford Festival Opera Orchestra
Sergio Alapont (conductor)

c.3.55pm
Hoddinott Concerto for euphonium and orchestra
David Childs (euphonium)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Bramwell Tovey (conductor).

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