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Front Row: Carlos Acosta, Opera at the V&A, Michael Winterbottom

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27/09/2017

Carlos Acosta, Opera at the V&A, Michael Winterbottom

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Carlos Acosta, Opera at the V&A, Michael Winterbottom

Carlos Acosta, 400 years of opera at the V&A and On the Road with Michael Winterbottom.

Carlos Acosta brings his Cuban dance company to the UK, Mary Bevan and Peggy Reynolds review the V&A's opera exhibition and Michael Winterbottom discusses his film On the Road.

Since he retired last year, the international ballet Star Carlos Acosta has set up a dance company in his native Cuba, Acosta Danza. The company will debut in the UK at Sadler's Wells in London late this September. Carlos spoke to John Wilson in between rehearsals. 

John reviews the V&A's exhibition about 400 years of opera with top soprano Mary Bevan and critic Peggy Reynolds. 

John Wilson speaks to Michael Winterbottom about his new film On the Road, and the decision to include actors in what would otherwise be a classic rock documentary about the band Wolf Alice. Does the mixing of fact and fiction work?

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