Twenty Minutes

Tart with a Heart

Saturday 11 February 2006 19:05-19:30 (Radio 3)

Poet and writer Ruth Padel explores how Verdi flouted 19th-century convention in his life and in the music of La Traviata, in which he made Violetta, this supposedly 'fallen woman', into a strong, loving and noble heroine who rises above the petty bourgeois society that crushes her.

Duration:

25 minutes

Twenty Minutes

Episode and Playlist Information

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