The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 3

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Poets at the Opera.  Richard examines poetry written at or inspired by a trip to the opera and also asks if poetry, like opera, can communicate before it is understood. We’ll hear Mark Doty on Handel, Charles Simic on Verdi and more.

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Originally broadcast on 23d January 2014