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World Service,08 Dec 1991,28 mins

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Part four. Opera. And trouble. In 1780, now aged twenty-four, Mozart writes his first mature opera, Idomeneo, in Munich. Back in Vienna, the archbishop of Salzburg arrives on state business and Mozart is expected to provide entertainment but resents being at the whim of his mean and tyrannical archbishop... Written and presented by Dr Stanley Sadie.

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