English conductor, pianist and music director Sir Antonio Pappano will feature across the BBC’s upcoming pan-platform season of opera programming.
The season, which coincides with the V&A’s exhibition Opera: Passion, Power and Politics this autumn, runs from 30 September 2017 to 25 February 2018 across BBC TV and radio.
Pappano will feature in a BBC Two documentary series, presented by broadcaster Lucy Worsley, exploring many of the same operas and cities as the V&A’s exhibition.
He will also head up a special BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Week looking at a different opera by Puccini each day, with presenter Donald Macleod.
Over the season, BBC Radio 3 will present recordings of seven operas, which feature in the V&A’s exhibition, and will broadcast episodes of its flagship programmes – In Tune and Music Matters – live from the museum.
Further details of the BBC’s opera season will be announced soon.
Jonty Claypole, director of BBC Arts, said: ‘For over 400 years, opera has proven one of the most exciting, radical and irresistible of all art forms.
‘Working with the V&A, Royal Opera House and others, we want to bring alive the remarkable inside story of how it became a global passion, while showcasing some of the finest operatic work across the UK today and re-surfacing treasures from the BBC archive. Working together, we will engage ever larger audiences and inspire a whole new generation of opera lovers.’
The season, which coincides with the V&A’s exhibition Opera: Passion, Power and Politics this autumn, runs from 30 September 2017 to 25 February 2018 across BBC TV and radio.
Pappano will feature in a BBC Two documentary series, presented by broadcaster Lucy Worsley, exploring many of the same operas and cities as the V&A’s exhibition.
He will also head up a special BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Week looking at a different opera by Puccini each day, with presenter Donald Macleod.
Over the season, BBC Radio 3 will present recordings of seven operas, which feature in the V&A’s exhibition, and will broadcast episodes of its flagship programmes – In Tune and Music Matters – live from the museum.
Further details of the BBC’s opera season will be announced soon.
Jonty Claypole, director of BBC Arts, said: ‘For over 400 years, opera has proven one of the most exciting, radical and irresistible of all art forms.
‘Working with the V&A, Royal Opera House and others, we want to bring alive the remarkable inside story of how it became a global passion, while showcasing some of the finest operatic work across the UK today and re-surfacing treasures from the BBC archive. Working together, we will engage ever larger audiences and inspire a whole new generation of opera lovers.’
