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| Artist Focus | ...With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Tenor PLACIDO DOMINGO begins the programme with Rossini's Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville).... |
| Breakfast | ...The programme features two great singers: PLACIDO DOMINGO in Donizetti and Janet Baker in Brahms. Plus Nikolaus Harnoncourt directing Handel and Gunter Wand conducting Schubert's Rosamunde.... |
| Composer Of The Week | ...PLACIDO DOMINGO... |
| For One Night Only | ...July 1990. In July 1990, PLACIDO DOMINGO, Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras united on one stage on the eve of the World Cup Final, singing in front of a world-wide satellite audience of around 800 million.... |
| Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924) | ...PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor)... |
| Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) | ...PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor)... |
| Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) | ...PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor)... |
| Humphrey Burton's Conducted Tour | ...The third of four programmes in which Humphrey Burton looks at the different types of conductors who have emerged in the 20th century. `Poachers-Turned-Gamekeepers'. World-famous instrumentalists who have taken up conducting as a second career, including Willi Boskovsky, Yehudi Menuhin, Neville Marriner, Mstislav Rostropovich, Andre Previn, Lorin Maazel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Walter Weller, Christoph Eschenbach, PLACIDO DOMINGO, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Gerard Schwarz, Pinchas Zukerman and Daniel Barenboim.... |
| Opera In Action | ...In the first of a new series, Michael White assembles a `dream team' cast for Bizet's masterpiece, including Maria Callas, Teresa Berganza, Franco Corelli and PLACIDO DOMINGO.... |
| Performing Verdi | ...Opera critic Rodney Milnes talks to singers, conductors and producers about the pleasures and challenges of performing Verdi, who died 100 years ago last month. Soprano Dame Josephine Barstow discusses the demanding role of Amelia in Verdi's middle-period work `Un ballo in maschera'. Including excerpts from the 1989 Vienna State Opera recording made by Herbert von Karajan shortly before his death, with Josephine Barstow as Amelia and PLACIDO DOMINGO as the doomed count, Riccardo.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Felicity Kendal. Her choices include tabla pieces from India, vocal music from the Westminster Cathedral Choir, Maria Callas and PLACIDO DOMINGO, and a range of concertos from Vivaldi to Elgar.... |
| Sara Mohr-pietsch | ...PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor)... |
| Sound Stories | ...Giuseppe Verdi was famously persuaded out of virtual retirement by his younger collaborator, Arrigo Boito. After the hugely successful premiere of `Aida' in 1871, Verdi withdrew to his country estate, and it was to be 15 years before the unveiling of his final pair of operatic masterpieces. String Quartet (3rd mvt). Juilliard Quartet. Otello (Love duet). PLACIDO DOMINGO, tenor (Otello), Renata Scotto, soprano (Desdemona), National PO/James Levine. Stabat mater (Four Sacred Pieces). Hungarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Pier Giorgio Morandi. Falstaff (opening scene). Soloists, Hungarian State Opera Orchestra/Will Humburg.... |
| Verdi Day - Introduction | ...Former general director of ENO Dennis Marks presents a day of programmes and music to mark the centenary of Verdi's death. Oberto (exc). Carlo Bergonzi, tenor (Riccardo), Munich Radio Orchestra/Lamberto Gardelli. 9.15 Nabucco (exc). Yevgeni Nesterenko, bass (Zaccaria), Piero Cappuccilli, baritone (Nabucco), PLACIDO DOMINGO, tenor (Ismaele), Ghena Dimitrova, soprano (Abigaille), Lucia Valentini Terrani, mezzo (Fenena), Chorus and Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin/Giuseppe Sinopoli. 9.40 I due Foscari (exc). Piero Cappuccilli, baritone (Doge), Katia Ricciarelli, soprano (Lucrezia), Austrian RSO/Lamberto Gardelli.... |
| Verdi Day | ...12.40 La traviata (exc). Angela Gheorghiu, soprano (Violetta), Leo Nucci, baritone (Germont), Royal Opera House Orchestra/Georg Solti. 1.05 Un ballo in maschera (exc). Katia Ricciarelli, soprano (Amelia), PLACIDO DOMINGO, tenor (Riccardo), Renato Bruson, baritone (Renato), Ruggiero Raimondi, bass (Sam), Giovanni Foiani, bass (Tom), La Scala Chorus and Orchestra/Claudio Abbado. 1.30 Simon Boccanegra (exc). Tito Gobbi, baritone (Simon Boccanegra), Walter Monachesi, baritone (Paolo), Victoria de los Angeles, soprano (Amelia), Giuseppe Campora, tenor (Gabriele), Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Gabriele Santini. / Falstaff (final scene). Geraint Evans, baritone (Falstaff), Robert Merrill, baritone (Ford), Alfredo Kraus, tenor (Fenton), John Lanigan, tenor (Dr Cajus), Piero de Palma, tenor (Bardolfo), Giovanni Foiani, bass (Pistola), Ilva Ligabue, soprano (Alice), Mirella Freni, soprano (Nannetta), Giulietta Simionato, mezzo (Mistress Quickly), Rosalind Elias, mezzo (Meg), RCA Italiana Chorus and Orchestra/Georg Solti. / Live from Parma, a performance of Verdi's Four Sacred Pieces. Fuji Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC SO/Paulo Olmi. / Falstaff (final scene). Geraint Evans, baritone (Falstaff), Robert Merrill, baritone (Ford), Alfredo Kraus, tenor (Fenton), John Lanigan, tenor (Dr Cajus), Piero de Palma, tenor (Bardolfo), Giovanni Foiani, bass (Pistola), Ilva Ligabue, soprano (Alice), Mirella Freni, soprano (Nannetta), Giulietta Simionato, mezzo (Mistress Quickly), Rosalind Elias, mezzo (Meg), RCA Italiana Chorus and Orchestra/Georg Solti. / 11.30 Macbeth (exc). Sherill Milnes, baritone (Macbeth), Ruggiero Raimondi, bass (Banquo), Ambrosian Opera Chorus, New PO/Riccardo Muti. 11.45 Stiffelio (exc). Sylvia Sass, soprano (Lina), Jose Carreras, tenor (Stiffelio), Ezio di Cesare, tenor (Raffaele), Wladimiro Ganzarolli, baritone (Jorg), Austrian Radio Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Lamberto Gardelli.... |