Music Feature

The Real History of Opera: Guillaume Tell

Tuesday 28 November 2006 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Repeated: Saturday 2 December 2006 15:30-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Huw Edwards uncovers the history and social context behind operas.

Rossini's last opera is about the political ideal of a conservative population rising up against tyrannical overlords and in 1829, the year before the July revolution, it had a special resonance for the Parisian people for whom it was written.

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