WOS Radio: Opera North’s Ruddigore
Gilbert & Sullivan’s audacious parody of Victorian melodrama
Ruddigore is as spirited a piece of topsy-turvy confection as the
celebrated Savoyards ever produced.
It arrives at Opera North in a
brand new production directed by Jo Davies and conducted by John
Wilson whose loving restorations of MGM musicals proved such a
sensation at last years BBC Proms season.
Edward Seckerson went behind
the scenes to meet them both and his exclusive podcast whets the
appetite for an evening of cunning disguises, dastardly deeds, and an
abundance of cracking good tunes.
Writer and broadcaster Edward Seckerson is chief classical music and opera critic for the Independent. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage & Screen,
in which he interviewed many of the most prominent writers and stars of
musical theatre. He appears regularly on BBC Radio 3 and 4. On
television, he has commentated a number of times at the Cardiff Singer
of the World competition. He has published books on Mahler and the
conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, and has been on Gramophone Magazine’s review panel for many years. Seckerson presented the 2007 series of the Radio 4 music quiz Counterpoint.
He has interviewed everyone from Leonard Bernstein to Liza Minelli;
from Paul McCartney to Pavarotti: from Julie Andrews to Jessye Norman.
For more info visit www.edwardseckerson.biz
