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Episode 3 - Joy, Jubilation and Courage

Soprano Nadine Benjamin explores how opera composers use music to create a heightened emotional response in their audiences. Why can opera be so thrilling and compelling?

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 final episode of the series, Nadine draws on her own experience as an operatic soprano and mind coach to uncover the methods that composers, from Handel to Gershwin have used to encourage audiences to feel uplifted and a characters' sense of courage and jubilation.

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Sun 20 Nov 2022 23:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il Barbiere Di Siviglia: Largo Al Factotum

    Singer: Simon Keenlyside. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ulf Schirmer.
    • Tales of Opera.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Ethel Smyth

    The Boatswain's Mate: What if I were Young again

    Singer: Nadine Benjamin. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez. Ensemble: Lontano Ensemble.
    • Ethel Smyth: The Boatswain's Mate.
    • Retrospect Opera.
    • 15?.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    La Boheme: Che Gelida Manina

    Singer: Roberto Alagna. Singer: Leontina Vaduva. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Puccini: La Boh猫me.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    La Boheme: O soave fanciulla

    Singer: Roberto Alagna. Singer: Leontina Vaduva. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Puccini: La Boh猫me.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le nozze di Figaro: Sull'aria ... Che soave zeffiretto

    Singer: Christiane Karg. Singer: Sonya Yoncheva. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 57.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    L'incoronazione di Poppea: Pur ti miro

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Singer: Dana Hanchard.
    • L'incoronazione di Poppea.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 11.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata: Libiamo ne' lieti calici

    Singer: Lisette Oropesa. Singer: Ren茅 Barbera. Conductor: Daniel Oren. Orchestra: Dresdner Philharmoniker.
    • Verdi: La Traviata.
    • Pentatone.
    • 3.

  • Charles Gounod

    Romeo et Juliette: Ah, Je Veux Vivre

    Singer: Diana Damrau. Conductor: Dan Ettinger. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra.
    • COLORaturaS 鈥� Opera Arias.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ariodante: Dopo notte, atra e funesta

    Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Conductor: Marc Minkowski. Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre.
    • Handel: Ariodante.
    • DG Archiv.
    • 71.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhauser: Dich, teure Halle, gr眉脽 ich wieder

    Singer: Lise Davidsen. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Lise Davidsen sings Wagner and Strauss.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L'elisir d'amore: Una furtiva lagrima

    Singer: Lawrence Brownlee. Orchestra: Kansas City Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Constantine Orbelian.
    • Donizetti & Bellini: Allegro io son.
    • Delos.
    • 9.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess: Summertime

    Author: DuBose Heyward. Lyricist: Ira Gershwin. Singer: Angel Blue. Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Highlights).
    • Pentatone.
    • 2.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Turandot: Nessun dorma

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Broadcast

  • Sun 20 Nov 2022 23:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3