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Last broadcast on Thu, 4 Dec 2008, 01:45 on BBC Four (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
In the early 18th century, Antonio Vivaldi composed music for La Pieta in Venice, a home for children who had been abandoned at birth. The institution had its own all-female orchestra and choir who provided entertainment in the church for visiting tourists. This film tells the story of that extraordinary partnership through the eyes of a modern group of female singers and musicians as they travel to Venice to recreate Vivaldi's music in the Pieta as it sounded 300 years ago.
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