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Episode 1 - Pain, Suffering and Torment

Operatic soprano and mind coach Nadine Benjamin explores how opera composers use music to create a heightened emotional response in their audiences. What makes opera so compelling?

Opera singer and mind coach Nadine Benjamin explores how opera composers use music to create a heightened emotional response in their audiences. What exactly is it that make opera so thrilling and compelling?

In this opening episode, Nadine draws on her own experience as an operatic soprano and mind coach to uncover the methods that composers from Rameau and Lully to Puccini and Wagner have used to draw audiences to empathise with their characters' suffering.

59 minutes

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Sun 6 Nov 2022 23:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca (Vissi D'arte)

    Performer: Angela Gheorghiu. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas (Dido's Lament When I am Laid in Earth)

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Castor et Pollux (Que tout gΓ©misse)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: RaphaΓ«l Pichon.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Madama Butterfly (The Humming Chorus)

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Performer: Vienna State Opera Choir.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Isis (L'hiver qui nous tourmente)

    Performer: Christophe Rousset. Performer: Les Talens Lyriques.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Dialogues des carmelites (Act III Scene 4: Salve Regina)

    Conductor: Bertrand de Billy. Performer: Sally Matthews. Performer: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Performer: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

  • Umberto Giordano

    Andrea Chenier (La Mamma Morta)

    Conductor: Tullio Serafin. Performer: Maria Callas. Performer: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan.

  • Scott Joplin

    Treemonisha - I Want to See My Child

    Conductor: Gunther Schuller. Performer: Betty Allen. Performer: Willard White. Performer: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra.

  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    I Pagliacci (Vesti La Giubba)

    Conductor: Giuseppe Patanè. Performer: Luciano Pavarotti. Performer: National Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan und Isolde (Isolde's Liebestod)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Waltraud Meier. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.

Broadcast

  • Sun 6 Nov 2022 23:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3