A Night at the Opera
Drama, daggers, murder, mayhem, love, lust, blood and betrayal - Friday Night is Music Night and presenter Ken Bruce invite you to A Night at the Opera.
Drama, daggers, murder, mayhem, love, lust, blood and betrayal - no it's not EastEnders - but this week's edition of Friday Night is Music Night, as Ken Bruce invites you to A Night at the Opera.
But be not a feared - though you may never have seen an opera before you'll soon be tapping your foot and hitting the high notes without leaving the comfort of your armchair. Tonight's programme includes the world's most loved opera tunes and arias - Che Gelida Manina from La Boheme, The Pearl Fishers' Duet, Ebben! Ne andrΓ² lontana from La Wally, and the Toreadors Song from Carmen.
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra is conducted by its Principal Guest Conductor Johannes Wildner with singing guests - Camilla Roberts (soprano); Toby Stafford-Allen (baritone) and making his Friday Night debut, the young South Korean tenor Jung Soo Yun.
We'll also be celebrating the three important classical music anniversaries which fall in 2013. The 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner (born 22nd May 1813); the 200th anniversary of the birth of Guiseppe Verdi (born 10th October 1813); and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pietro Mascagni (born 7th December 1863). So expect orchestral fireworks from Lohengrin and Die Meistersingers (Wagner) along with excerpts from Verdi's great opera - La Traviata and Mascagni's beautiful intermezzo to Cavalleria Rusticana.
Ken Bruce straps on his horned helmet, polishes up his breastplate and attempts to sort Woltan from Werther and untangle the complicated plots of the opera world. The concert was recorded at the Mermaid Theatre in London and first broadcast in January this year.
During the interval Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2's Dave Pearce looks at the eternal appeal of opera and its presence in pop and dance music.
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Where Pop meets Opera
Duration: 17:19
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
Prelude - Lohengrin
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Toby Stafford-Allen
The Toreador Song
Artist: The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
Aragonaise (Carmen)
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Camilla Roberts
Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana (La Wally)
Artist: The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
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Jung Soo Yun
Che Gelida Manina (La Boheme)
Artist: The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
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Jung Soo Yun
Pearl Fishers Duet (Au Fond Temple Saint )
Artist: The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner Artist: Toby Stafford-Allen
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
Overture - The Marriage Of Figaro
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
Overture: Ruslan And Ludmilla
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Camilla Roberts
Brindisi (La Traviata)
Artist: Jung Soo Yun
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Toby Stafford-Allen
Di Provenza Il Mar (La Traviata)
Artist: The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
Cavalleria Rusticana - Intermezzo
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Camilla Roberts
Vissi D'arte (From Tosca)
Artist: The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
Eugene Onegin Waltz
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Jung Soo Yun
Nessun Dorma (from "Turandot")
Artist: The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
Prelude - The Meistersingers
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra Cb. Johannes Wildner
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Broadcasts
- Fri 25 Jan 2013 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
- Fri 12 Apr 2013 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2