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Music Matters: The Moderate Soprano, Mark Wigglesworth, Stravinsky

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31/10/2015

The Moderate Soprano, Mark Wigglesworth, Stravinsky

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, The Moderate Soprano, Mark Wigglesworth, Stravinsky

Tom Service meets Mark Wigglesworth, the new music director of English National Opera.

Tom Service is joined by Mark Wigglesworth, ENO's new music director. Plus a new book on Stravinsky and Felicity Palmer reviewing David Hare's new play The Moderate Soprano.

Tom Service talks to Mark Wigglesworth, the new Music Director of ENO, about starting his tenure amidst turbulent times for the company, and the mezzo Dame Felicity Palmer and critic Michael Billington review a new play by David Hare, 'The Moderate Soprano', which dramatises John Christie's ambitious plan to construct an Opera House on his Sussex estate in 1934.

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