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Opera Italia
Description: Series tracing the history of Italian opera presented by Antonio Pappano, conductor and music director at the Royal Opera House. Genre: TV series First episode air date: May 24, 2010 Network: BBC Four Program Creator: BBC Four Language: English
Plot: Sir Antonio Pappano, conductor and music director of the Royal Opera House, explores the last 100 years in view of the greatest singers and roles. Pappano discusses and demonstrates the prism of the main classical voice types, including soprano, tenor, mezzo-soprano, baritone and bass. The art of great...
Plot: Historian Lucy Worsley explores how history and opera go hand in hand. She visits the great European cities where some of the most famous operas were written, tells the stories of the colourful characters who composed them.
Plot: Sky Arts goes behind the scenes at the Glyndebourne Opera Cup, a competition designed to discover and spotlight the best young opera singers from around the world.
Plot: BBC works with London's Royal Opera House to bring the network's popular `Maestro' series to the opera in this part-part programme. `Maestro at the Opera' features four personalities who face one of the greatest challenges of their careers, grabbing batons to become apprentice conductors. The apprentice...
Plot: This three-part series serves as a critical essay by renowned American scholar James Shapiro as he re-examines the works of Shakespeare during the troubled first decade of the reign of King James, at a time when the playwright's works were dark and complex. Shapiro argues that the decade - sandwiched...
Plot: Ceramics are one of the oldest and most-fundamental art forms around. Ceramics are used for everything from eating and drinking to celebrating birth, marriage or even death. Many people believe that ceramics contain social DNA and reveal about the taste and habits of a nation. This three-part series...