The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 6

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.

On today’s show he is joined by Mezzo-soprano Lauren Easton and opera director Frederic Wake-Walker to discuss Glyndebourne’s latest opera, “The Yellow Sofa,”  in which a Portuguese Sofa comes to life in a tumultuous household full of adultery and the threat of revenge.

Originally broadcast on 8th November 2012