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    Peter Maxwell Davies: Taverner

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    Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC SSO and tenor Daniel Norman in Maxwell Davies's Taverner.

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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

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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

Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers

Martin Handley presents a rare performance of Tchaikovsky's only comic opera.

1 more programme coming up in the next 7 days.

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