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Episode 2 - Rage, Jealousy and Madness

Opera singer and mind coach Nadine Benjamin explores how opera composers use music to create a heightened emotional response in their audiences.

Opera singer and mind coach Nadine Benjamin explores how opera composers use music to create a heightened emotional response in their audiences. What exactly is it that make opera so thrilling and compelling?

In the second episode of the series, Nadine draws on her own experience as an operatic soprano and mind coach to uncover the methods that composers, from Francesca Caccini to John Adams, have used to encourage audiences to feel a characters' sense of anger, rage and jealousy.

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Sun 13 Nov 2022 23:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberflote: Der Holle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen

    Singer: Diana Damrau. Conductor: J茅r茅mie Rhorer. Orchestra: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie.
    • Diana Damrau: Arie di Bravura.
    • Erato.
    • 2.

  • Arrigo Boito

    Mefistofele: Son lo Spirito che nega

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Conductor: Paul Daniel. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Bad Boys.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Serse: Crude furie degl'orridi abissi

    Singer: Franco Fagioli. Ensemble: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Handel: Serse.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 92.

  • John Adams

    Nixon in China, Act II Scene 2: I Am the Wife of Mao Tse-Tung

    Singer: Tracy Dahl. Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: Colorado Symphony.
    • John Adams: Nixon in China.
    • Naxos.
    • 28.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Peter Grimes, Act III Scene 2: Grimes! Grimes!

    Singer: Stuart Skelton. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner. Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Chorus. Choir: Choir of Collegium Musicum.
    • Britten: Peter Grimes.
    • Chandos.
    • 39.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Otello: Dio! mi potevi scagliar tutti i mali

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.
    • Verdi: Otello.
    • Sony.
    • 29.

  • Francis Poulenc

    La Voix Humaine, FP 171: Alors, voil脿, j'allais dire machinalement

    Singer: Felicity Lott. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Armin Jordan.
    • Francis Poulenc: La Voix Humaine.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 21.

  • Francesca Caccini

    La liberazione di Ruggiero: Qual temerario core alla vista di quest'ondeggianti

    Singer: Michaela Riener. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel. Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble.
    • La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'Isola di Alcina.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 14.

  • Richard Strauss

    Elektra: Schweig, und tanze (Final scene)

    Singer: Birgit Nilsson. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Richard Strauss: Elektra.
    • Decca.
    • 29.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Lucia di Lammermoor: Oh, giusto cielo!...Il dolce suono

    Singer: Joan Sutherland. Singer: Richard Bonynge. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
    • Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor.
    • Decca.
    • 25.

Broadcast

  • Sun 13 Nov 2022 23:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3