Composer of the Week - Monteverdi to Rossini - Italian Opera
As part of the BBC's focus on opera in 2010, Donald Macleod explores two centuries and more of Italian opera, from Monteverdi to Rossini
Composer of the Week - Monteverdi to Rossini - Italian Opera - Episode 1
Donald Macleod explores the first opera, the first operatic masterpiece and one of the first productions to be staged in a public house. With Monteverdi, Peri, Cavalli and Cesti.
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Composer of the Week - Monteverdi to Rossini - Italian Opera - Episode 2
Donald Macleod explores Italian opera in the 1720s, focusing on the work of three giants whom history has treated differently - Alessandro Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Handel.
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Composer of the Week - Monteverdi to Rossini - Italian Opera - Episode 3
Donald Macleod explores Italian opera, focusing on the tradition of opera seria - a more formal mode of opera. With music by Pergolesi, Galuppi, Gluck, Jomelli, Mozart and Haydn.
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Composer of the Week - Monteverdi to Rossini - Italian Opera - Episode 4
Donald Macleod explores opera buffa, a comic opera style, which often featured lecherous masters and saucy maids in ludicrous plots. Including Latilla, Pergolesi, Galuppi, Mozart.
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Composer of the Week - Monteverdi to Rossini - Italian Opera - Episode 5
Donald Macleod explores Rossini's operas, as well as two leading composers in the generation before him - Ferdinando Paer and Simon Mayr - little-known now, but famous in their day.
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