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Opera on 3 Charpentier's Medea

Donald Macleod presents Charpentier's Medea performed at English National Opera.
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Afternoon on 3 Thursday Opera Matinee, Rachmaninov - Aleko

Katie Derham presents a performance given in Turin of Rachmaninov's opera Aleko.
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Twenty Minutes From Neptune to Nixon

Adrian Mourby examines the history of the operatic plot.
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Twenty Minutes Suffolk Sounds

Simon Barnes on the sounds of the Suffolk coast, which inspired Britten's Peter Grimes.
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Twenty Minutes The Captain's Apprentice

The history of a traditional song that influenced Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes.

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