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Radio 3,21 mins

Series2018

Stephen Fry and Wagner

BBC Proms

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Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre was first performed in June 1870, and is the second opera in his epic Ring Cycle. Here actor and all-round polymath Stephen Fry and musicologist John Deathridge explore and introduce the work's themes and music.

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