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Radio 3,14 Sep 2013,45 mins

Verdi and Wagner 200

Music Matters

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Tom Service chairs a discussion from the Clore Studio Upstairs at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with a panel of guests including the actor, writer, director and broadcaster Stephen Fry, the bass Robert Lloyd, the directors Graham Vick and Kasper Holten and the conductor Simone Young about Verdi and Wagner and how they each revolutionised opera in the 19th century. Producer Brian Jackson.

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