In Tune - 18/08/2010 Kurt Streit, Rosemary Joshua, Lee Breuer, Njabula Madlala

Petroc Trelawny talks to tenor Kurt Streit and soprano Rosemary Joshua who star as Idomeneo and Ilia in Mozart's opera seria Idomeneo at Usher Hall as part of the Edinburgh International Festival. Adapter and director Lee Breuer and musical director and composer Bob Telson talk to Petroc about the upcoming production of Gospel At Colonus. The radical reworking of Sophocles's tragedy Oedipus at Colonus featuring the Blind Boys of Alabama appears at the Edinburgh International Festival. Kathleen Ferrier Award Winning baritone Njabulo Madlala and pianist James Baillieu will be performing live in the studio ahead of an upcoming concert at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford featuring the works of Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Fauré, Wolf and South African folk songs. Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00 E-mail: [email protected].