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    Thinking with Opera

    Thinking with Opera

    Thinking with Opera

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    Length:
    7 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Explore the thrilling world of opera and its component parts in our series of podcasts, produced as part of the DARE partnership between Opera North and the University of Leeds.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 7 of 7 episodes

    Title

    Thinking with Opera 08: Carmen, Carmencita!

    Who is Carmen? Is she really the exotic femme fatale of popular imagination, or is ther...

    69 minutes
    		Aug 03, 2023

    Thinking with Opera 07: Paul Mason and Frank Finlay on Parsifal

    “What is the tension between this ugly ideology, the beauty of the music, and the agony...

    46 minutes
    		Jun 23, 2022

    Thinking with Opera 06: Parsifal with Alex Ross and Dr. Áine Sheil

    In the second of three episodes focusing on Wagner's epic final opera, New Yorker criti...

    50 minutes
    		Jun 22, 2022

    Thinking with Opera 04: Simon Armitage and Gavin Bryars on Words and Music

    Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and composer Gavin Bryars in expansive conversation about ...

    70 minutes
    		Mar 10, 2021

    Thinking with Opera 03: Thomas Adès and Operas of Confinement

    How do music, plot, staging, action, dance and performance combine to produce meaning f...

    50 minutes
    		Jan 13, 2021

    Thinking with Opera 02: Carnivalesque

    From Monteverdi to Monty Python, cross-dressing, gross-out humour and a preoccupation w...

    63 minutes
    		Jul 29, 2020

    Thinking with Opera 01: Performing Violence

    “In cinema you are a spectator; in opera you are present. I’m fascinated by the notion ...

    61 minutes
    		Jul 16, 2020