Join Liz Nolan as she visits the chronicles of this passionate and spectacular art.Each week an opera, a story, a glimpse into the lives of the characters, both real and imaginary, who have shaped the form as we know it today.
“Such stuff as dreams are made on…” Like Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Mozart’s last opera Die Zauberflöte/ The Magic Flute examines the complexity of human relationships within the framework of an enchanted realm.
Both magical and profound, its beauty is showcased in a recording featuring Lucia Popp, Nicolai Gedda and Gundula Janowitz, under the baton of Otto Klemperer.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 28 July, 7pm-8pm