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.
In his early masterpiece I Masnadieri (The Bandits) Verdi delivers a tale of rollicking romance and derring-do.
A bad boy who wants to be good, a good girl who wants the bad boy, and a wicked cousin who wants the loot. What’s not to love? Plus, a welter of stirring song.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 14 April, 7pm-8pm