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Pappano's Classical Voices

Episode 1: Soprano

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Antonio Pappano explores the great roles and the greatest singers of the last 100 years through the prism of the main classical voice types. He begins with the soprano. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Antonio Pappano
Executive Producer:
Mark Cooper
Series Producer:
David Jeffcock
Producer:
Dominic Best
Director:
Dominic Best
Participant:
Richard Bonynge
Participant:
Diana Damrau
Participant:
Barbara Hannigan
Participant:
Anna Netrebko
Participant:
Curtis Offiah
Participant:
Carolyn Sampson
Participant:
Anna Siminska
Participant:
John Tooley
Participant:
Willard White

Through ten carefully chosen cover versions, this film celebrates the role of the cover in the pop canon and investigates what it takes to reinvent someone else's song as a smash. Show more

Through ten carefully chosen cover versions, this film celebrates the role of the cover in the pop canon and investigates what it takes to reinvent someone else's song as a smash. Show more

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