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Lucy Worsley's Nights at the Opera

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
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For centuries in western culture, opera has been the greatest show on earth. Historian Lucy Worsley explores how history and opera go hand in hand. She visits the great European cities where some of the most famous operas were written, tells the stories of the colourful characters who composed them, and shows how they reflected the turbulent times they were composed in and the lives, hopes and fears of the people who lived in them. Whilst Lucy visits the cities and European opera houses, Antonio Pappano, music director of London's Royal Opera, helps us understand some of those operas' greatest musical moments.

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Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 14, 2017
Network: BBC Two

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2 hrs

2 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Lucy Worsley

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Lucy Worsley's Nights at the Opera

20171 Season60m episodes7.0

Documentary

TMDB7.0

Votes1

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Oct 14, 2017 · 1h 0m
Episode 1
In the first episode, Lucy investigates four cities and four operas embedded in the cauldron of European politics between the 17th and 19th centuries. She visits Venice, where Claudio Monteverdi invented modern opera with The Coronation of Poppea, the first work which featured real historical characters that the audience could identify with. It is also one of the steamiest and sexiest operas ever written.
E2 · Airs Oct 21, 2017 · 1h 0m
Episode 2
In this second programme, Lucy investigates four cities in France and Germany and four operas of a new kind that swept away conventions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They delved into the realities of people's lives and their deepest desires, especially those of women - for freedom, identity and sex. She visits Paris, where two operas captured the spirit of Bohemianism that swept the city - Bizet's Carmen, that showed the gritty realities of life for Paris's underclass and the upper classes' fear of them, and Puccini's classic opera La Boheme, about the lives and loves of a group of young people exploring the new personal and sexual freedoms available. Then to Bayreuth in Germany, where Wagner's monumental Ring Cycle set out create a 'total work of art' to that would tap into and transform German identity. Finally Lucy travels to Dresden, where Richard Strauss premiered Salome, a work that explored perverted female pleasure in a way that is still shocking even today.

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Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 14, 2017
Network: BBC Two

Time to finish

2 hrs

2 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Lucy Worsley

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