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Jamie MacDougall plays the iconic classical music that's the soundtrack to our lives.

Jamie MacDougall plays the iconic classical music that's the soundtrack to our lives and tells the stories behind the music-making.

Classics Unwrapped: A fairy tale opera

A fairy tale opera

BBC Radio Scotland - Classics Unwrapped, A fairy tale opera

Scottish Opera's exclusive live performance recording of Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel

Classics Unwrapped and Scottish Opera bring you an exclusive live concert recording of Hansel and Gretel.

Classics Unwrapped has exclusive access to Scottish Opera’s latest performance of Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera Hansel and Gretel.  Join Jamie, Soprano Nadine Benjamin and Scottish Opera’s Head of Music Derek Clark to hear more about the story and characters, before we hear highlights from this exclusive live performance recording from December 2020.

Hansel:				Kitty Whately 
Gretel:                                              Rhian Lois 
Mother and Witch:                        Nadine Benjamin 
Father:                                             Phillip Rhodes 
Sandman and Dew Fairy:              Charlie Drummond 
Scottish Opera Orchestra
Conductor:                                      David Parry
Orchestral Reduction:                   Derek Clark

Photo credit: James Glossop

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