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    Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre

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    Available since Saturday with 6 days left.

    Ligeti's 'nearly apocalyptic' blackly comic opera. Contains strong language.

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Opera on Afternoon on 3

All Handel's operas will be broadcast on Thursdays at 2pm on Afternoon on 3 throughout the year.

2009-2010 Season

See the complete Opera on 3 schedule of forthcoming broadcasts

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Radio 3 Opera Player: Listen with surtitles

From 6pm on Saturday 17th October you can use the Opera Player to listen to the entire Radio 3 broadcast of Verdi's Don Carlo from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden with the surtitles from this production.

The surtitles are available by kind permission of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Radio 3 Opera Player

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Saturday, 18:00 on Radio 3

Massenet's Werther

Richard Farnes conducts an Opera North production of Massenet's opera Werther.

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