This is Opera

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   E1. Pagliacci

   Sep 20, 2015 · 50m

   "Theatre is life" is the verism motto behind this beautiful opera. Gener explores Pagliacci in which fiction and reality intermingle and where nothing is as it might appear.

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   E2. Eugene Onegin

   Sep 27, 2015 · 50m

   Tchaikovsky and Pushkin- the greatest examples of Russian Romanticism-speak to us about impossible romances, homosexuality, dandies, love letters and duels of honor. Gener goes to the Liceu Conservatory to collaborate with some aspiring musicians.

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   E3. Fidelio

   Oct 4, 2015 · 50m

   Gener discusses Beethoven and the composer's main drives in life- love, injustice, and freedom.

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   E4. Handel

   Oct 11, 2015 · 50m

   In London Gener reveals how Handel managed something which nobody had ever managed before: to make England love opera. This is an episode about a very competitive man who achieved everything he aimed for and converted opera into something which could be enjoyed by everyone in London.

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   E5. Così fan tutte

   Oct 18, 2015 · 50m

   Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the leading examples of musical classicism, and its main topic, narrated as a comedy, is infidelity.

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   E6. Salome

   Oct 25, 2015 · 50m

   Based on the timeless play by Oscar Wilde, Richard Strauss wrote a troubling, uneasy score which portrays very clearly man's basic instincts. It is a story about obsession, about curiosity and about our desire for the prohibited. And the score expresses these topics perfectly: music which arouses strong emotions. Gener walks the viewer through how Salome makes one face his own fears and conscience.

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