Afternoon on 3 - Thursday Opera Matinee - Thursday Opera Matinee - Chabrier's L'Etoile

Chabrier's comic opera L'Étoile is a gem - a very silly story set to some glorious music. The performance was recorded last year at the Grand Theatre in Geneva and is full of gallic wit and charm. Our 'orchestra of the week', the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, then returns with colourful orchestrations of some of Debussy's piano preludes - and a performance of that most notorious of Ravel's scores, Boléro. Presented by Katie Derham. Chabrier: L'Étoile King Ouf 1st.......... Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, tenor Siroco.................................René Schirrer, bass Hérisson de Porc-Epic......Pierre Doyen, baritone Tapioca............................. Fabrice Farina, tenor Lazuli.....Marie-Claude Chappuis, mezzo-soprano Princess Laoula................ Sophie Graf, soprano Aloès........Blandine Staskiewicz, mezzo-soprano Chief of police..............................Jérôme Savary Chorus of the Grand Théâtre, Geneva Suisse Romande Orchestra Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor 4.10pm Debussy orch. Matthews: Five Preludes for Piano Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov, conductor 4.35pm Ravel: Boléro Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov, conductor.