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Radio 3,31 Oct 2015,45 mins

The Moderate Soprano, Mark Wigglesworth, Stravinsky

Music Matters

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Tom Service talks to Mark Wigglesworth, the new Music Director of ENO, about starting his tenure amidst turbulent times for the company, and the mezzo Dame Felicity Palmer and critic Michael Billington review a new play by David Hare, 'The Moderate Soprano', which dramatises John Christie's ambitious plan to construct an Opera House on his Sussex estate in 1934.

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