Podcast: Turandot, ENO

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The first in a series of podcasts in which the writer, broadcaster and former presenter of BBC Radio 3's Stage and Screen Edward Seckerson interviews the leading lights of opera and classical music. Here, the team behind English National Opera's new production of Puccini's Turandot which premieres next month.

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A new production of the composer’s operatic swansong directed by young theatre director Rupert Goold, with German soprano Kirsten Blanck in her UK stage debut as the man-hating ‘ice princess’; Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones as the unknown prince whose death-defying passion solves the riddle of her tortured heart, and conducted by ENO’s Music Director, Edward Gardner.

Performances from 8 October-12 December. Book online here

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