Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism
of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable,
magic, lust, comedy. Today: the myth of Helen and Paris,
how her beauty and his lust caused The Trojan War and a
whole lot of singing. We’ll be hearing from Eccles, Gluck
and Tippet; and Richard talks to the soprano Kat Beaty, who
is appearing in a new production of Offenbach’s La Belle
Helene, or The Beautiful Helen, with The Julian Light Opera
Society in West London.
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Originally broadcast on 21st November 2013

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Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy. Today he examines what it’s like being underground, walled-up, buried, laid in earth . . . composers as diverse as Monteverdi, Beethoven, Verdi, Debussy, Birtwistle and The Knife have all sonorously examined the horror of the undergrowth, the underworld, premature burial or death by entombment.

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Originally broadcast on 7th November 2013

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Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy. Today, a Halloween special.
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Originally broadcast on 31st October 2013 (Resonance FM, London).

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Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy. Today: Richard looks at London as an operatic setting throughout the ages.

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Originally broadcast on 24th October 2013

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Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable,
magic, lust, comedy. Today: Richard visits the Australian Heldentenor Stuart Skelton at The Coliseum in Covent Garden to chat about his love of English National Opera, ahead of tonight’s Gala at Cadogan Hall, ‘Stuart Skelton & Friends’; and how to decompress after singing the violent and tragic role of Peter Grimes.

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Originally broadcast on 10th October 2013

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Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy. Today: Richard looks at how opera has both welcomed and vilified immigrants and those who came from outside. Composer Guy Harries talks about his new opera ‘Two Caravans,’ detailing the exploits of migrant workers picking strawberries in Kent.

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Originally broadcast on 3rd October 2013

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Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy. Today: the inspiration of disease.
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Originally broadcast on 26th September 2013

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Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today he takes a look at duets – and not just love duets, but duets of ambition, of lust, of hatred and of a somewhat stiller and sacred nature. With some fine and arousing examples from Monteverdi, Gluck, Handel, Cherubini, Tippett and Cage.

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Originally broadcast on 19th September 2013

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Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today, inspired by his friend Sam’s Puccini-laden iPod, he talks to his friends about their favourite pieces of opera. Although some are bashful it transpires that everyone has a track, from Mozart to Adams, that they hum along to at the bus stop, that buoys them up or helps them express their sadness.

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Originally broadcast on 25th July 2013

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Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy. Today: Richard talks to the creatives behind Secret Cinema about their new opera, The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing. He is also joined by the composer Llewelyn Ap Myrddin, to talk about his upcoming opera, The Crocodile.
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Originally broadcast on 18th July 2013

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