Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today’s guest is award-winning poet and librettist David Harsent.
Originally broadcast on 20th February 2014
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The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 6
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today’s show is all about charity and kindness. We’ll be hearing some of the most clement and kind moments in opera with guests Robert Ames and Hugh Brunt from The London Contemporary Orchestra who discuss their upcoming concert with Jonny Greenwood.
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Originally broadcast on 13th February 2014
The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 5
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Richard examines the continued influence of Greek and Roman mythologies on contemporary opera and talks to James Conway, the artistic director of English Touring Opera, about his forthcoming production of Tippett’s King Priam.
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Originally broadcast on 6th February 2014
The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 4 (Mara Carlyle)
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Richard talks to critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter Mara Carlyle who has spent her career being influenced by classical songs and opera.
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Originally broadcast on 30th January 2014
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.
Originally broadcast on 23d January 2014
The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 2
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Richard examines the male composer’s obsession with strong women. From Cleopatra to Joan of Arc, opera composers as diverse as Handel, Samuel Barber and James Macmillan have been portraying queens and female conquerors through aria and recit for hundreds of years. Tune in to hear the bravest, most terrifying and most resourceful women in history literally sing for their lives.
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Originally broadcast on 16th January 2014
The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 1
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. The cure and the resurrection. Richard takes a look at those curative moments in opera when heroes and heroines are healed and the audience is spared the grief of death or tragedy. We’ll be looking at composers as diverse as Verdi, Gluck, Mahler, Beethoven, Wagner and Peter Maxwell Davies.
Originally broadcast on 9th January 2014.
The Opera Hour – series 3/episode 12
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: It’s Christmas! What do Diana Ross, Menotti, Marianne Faithfull, Tchaikovsky and The Sixteen all have in common? Well, they’re all on The Opera Hour Christmas Special of course! And since it’s Christmas, Richard’s asking Johnny Seven, aka John The Producer, what his favourite noisy Christmas carols are too!
Originally broadcast on 20th December 2013
The Opera Hour – series 3/episode 11
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy. On today’s show, Richard examines the dramatic oratorio and talks to the opera director Patrick Kinmonth about his new production of Haydn’s Creation with Vocal Futures, taking place in a concrete bunker underneath Baker Street.
Originally broadcast on 12th December 2013
The Opera Hour – series 3/episode 10 – Hansel and Gretel
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy. Today: Folklore and Fairy Tales with guests Richard Pyros and Sylvie Gallant, from Opera in Space’s new production of Hansel and Gretel.
Originally broadcast on 5th December 2013