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Composer György Ligeti, L'immensità starring Penelope Cruz, La Cage Aux Folles

György Ligeti - on his 100th anniversary, the Hungarian-Austrian composer's music and Prom. Plus reviews of film L'immensità, starring Penelope Cruz, and musical La Cage Aux Folles

György Ligeti: on the 100th anniversary of his birth, we celebrate the Hungarian-Austrian composer and the 2023 Proms performances of his work - music which was famously used by filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in The Shining and A Space Odyssey. Pianist Danny Driver, and music critic, author and librettist Jessica Duchen join Tom to discuss.

Plus we review La Cage Aux Folles - the musical story of a gay couple running a drag nightclub, and new Italian film L'immensita, starring Penelope Cruz - about a young girl in 70s Rome who yearns to be a boy, Our reviewers are theatre critic David Benedict, and writer, editor and podcaster Thea Lenarduzzi.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Emma Wallace

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42 minutes

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  • Thu 10 Aug 2023 19:15

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