WOS Radio: Opera Holland Park’s New Season

In this “live and uncut” podcast Edward Seckerson talks to James Clutton and Michael Volpe about opera rarities, exciting young talent, exciting older talent, the prospect of Wagner (could there be a Dutchman in the offing), the X-factor, and much, much more.

In keeping with the name of OHP’s community project ‘Inspire’, the mix of operas reaching into 2012 and beyond is as eclectic as ever with old favourites rubbing shoulders with some of opera’s best kept secrets. This season aficionados will be jumping up and down at the enticing prospect of Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini with Cheryl Barker and Julian Gavin. All this and the Volpe Diaries, too…..

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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