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How do opera singers remember the words?

Baritone Peter Snipp talks to Sir Bryn Terfel, Susan Bullock, Judith Howarth, Christopher Purves, Sir Willard White, acting coach Jonathan Lewis and memory expert Professor Martin Conway about the rigours faced by opera singers of having to memorize enormous amounts of words, often in a foreign language of which they have little or no knowledge.

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20 minutes

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