First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod explores opera buffa, a comic opera style, which often featured lecherous masters and saucy maids in ludicrous plots. Including Latilla, Pergolesi, Galuppi, Mozart. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod explores Rossini's operas, as well as two leading composers in the generation before him - Ferdinando Paer and Simon Mayr - little-known now, but famous in their day. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod explores the first opera, the first operatic masterpiece and one of the first productions to be staged in a public house. With Monteverdi, Peri, Cavalli and Cesti. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod explores Italian opera in the 1720s, focusing on the work of three giants whom history has treated differently - Alessandro Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Handel. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod explores Italian opera, focusing on the tradition of opera seria - a more formal mode of opera. With music by Pergolesi, Galuppi, Gluck, Jomelli, Mozart and Haydn. Show more
