WOS Radio: Edward Seckerson Talks to Antonio Pappano
The Royal Opera’s music director Antonio Pappano, star of the BBC TV series Opera Italia, has been making waves all over Europe with his Italian musical family – the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – and their latest EMI offering, a sensational live recording of Rossini’s rarely performed operatic swansong William Tell, is certain to achieve landmark status.
So click here for a taster of all these recordings. William Tell will feature in its entirety on the second night of the BBC Proms season 2011 when the spectre of the Lone Ranger could be buried forever.