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Music Matters

Barbara Hannigan, Alice Coote, King Roger, Charles Mackerras

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

In a live edition, Tom Service is joined by singers Alice Coote and Barbara Hannigan and discusses a new book exploring the work of conductor Charles Mackerras. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Service
Interviewed Guest:
Alice Coote
Interviewed Guest:
Barbara Hannigan
Interviewed Guest:
Susannah Waters
Interviewed Guest:
Nigel Simeone
Interviewed Guest:
Nicholas Kenyon
Interviewed Guest:
Gavin Plumley

Duration: 2 hours, 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Brett Dean's opera based on Shakespeare's best-known tragedy. Prince Hamlet is called upon to wreak revenge on his uncle Claudius by the ghost of Hamlet's father, the former king. Show more

Contributors

Claudius:
Rodney Gilfry
Polonius:
Kim Begley
Ghost of Old Hamlet/Gravedigger/Player 1:
John Tomlinson
Guildenstern:
Christopher Lowrey
Rosencrantz:
Rupert Enticknap
Marcellus/Player 4:
James Newby
Player 2:
John Findon
Musician:
James Crabb
Composer:
Brett Dean
Librettist:
Matthew Jocelyn
Director:
Neil Armfield
Set Designer:
Ralph Myers
Costume designer:
Alice Babidge
Lighting Director:
Jon Clark
Fight Director:
Nicholas Hall
Executive Producer:
George Bruell

Front Row

Wild, TS Eliot poetry prize, Oppenheimer at the RSC and Barbara Hannigan

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Kirsty Lang presents a review of Wild, the announcement of the TS Eliot poetry prize winner, Oppenheimer at the Royal Shakespeare Company and soprano Barbara Hannigan. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Jenny McCartney
Interviewed Guest:
Angus Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Morton-Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Barbara Hannigan
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Sampson
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

Duration: 1 hour, 32 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Sir George Benjamin conducts the world premiere of his new opera. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Show more

Contributors

Conductor:
George Benjamin
Gaveston/Stranger:
Gyula Orendt
Mortimer:
Peter Hoare
Boy, later young king:
Samuel Boden
Witness 1/singer 1/woman 1:
Jennifer France
Witness 2/singer 2/woman 2:
Krisztina Szabo
Witness 3/madman:
Andri Bjorn Robertsson
Executive Producer:
Tony Followell
Executive Producer:
Francois Roussillon
Producer:
Peter Jones
Production Manager:
Anja Zoll-Khan
Production Manager:
Kit Withnail
Librettist:
Martin Crimp
Stage Director:
Katie Mitchell

Pappano's Classical Voices

Episode 1: Soprano

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

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