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Front Row: Soprano Chen Reiss, Theatre Online, National Poetry Competition

31/03/2020

Soprano Chen Reiss, Theatre Online, National Poetry Competition

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Soprano Chen Reiss, Theatre Online, National Poetry Competition

Soprano Chen Reiss on her recording of Beethoven's Arias

Soprano Chen Reiss discusses her new recording of rarely performed Arias by Beethoven. Plus the winner of the National Poetry Competition, Susannah Hart.

To mark Beethoven's 250th anniversary, soprano Chen Reiss has released an album of rarely performed Beethoven arias called Immortal Beloved. She joins us live from her home in Vienna, and also performs a favourite aria by Handel. 

With arts organisations scrambling to reproduce their output online, we discuss the dilemmas of streaming works intended to be experienced communally. Academic Kirsty Sedgman, who specialises in audience research, and theatre critic Alice Saville, Editor of Exeunt Magazine, consider the consequences for artists and their audiences.

Susannah Hart has won the National Poetry Competition for her poem Reading the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy, which draws from her experiences as a school governor - the poem is her reaction to how we support and look after children at risk. 

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Timothy Prosser
Engineer: John Boland

Image: Chen Reiss
Photo Credit: Paul Marc Mitchell

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