November 2010 podcast
Pre-concert talk introducing the rarely performed Rossini opera Aureliano in Palmira. With Roger Parker and Benjamin Walton.

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Why have some of Rossini's operas become central to the repertoire of opera houses, while others remain rarely performed? Opera Rara and the London Philharmonic Orchestra recently performed Aureliano in Palmira at the Royal Festival Hall. In this pre-concert talk, Roger Parker (King's College, London) and Benjamin Walton (University of Cambridge) introduce the opera and the musical and political circumstances that led to the work struggling to catch the imagination of European audiences in the 1800s.

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