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BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It replaced the BBC Third Programme in 1967 and broadcasts classical music and opera, with jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also featuring. [1] The station has described itself as "the world's most significant commissioner of new music". [2] [3]
Opera title Librettist and/or source(s) Radio station 24 March 1925 [1] Geoffrey Toye: The Red Pen: A. P. Herbert: British Broadcasting Company: 24 December 1929 [2] Gustav Kneip: Christkinds Erdenreise (The Christ-child's journey on Earth) Franz Peter Kürten WERAG: May 1931 [3] Walter Goehr: Malpopita: Berlin July 1931 [4] Mark Lubbock: The ...
The opera received its premiere as a BBC Radio 3 broadcast on 16 July 1977, from a studio recording made on 17 February 1977 in Brent Town Hall. Its first stage production was in 1992 at the Ballerup Theatre in Copenhagen, by Opera-Fabrikken. The first UK production was at the Norwich Triennial Festival in October 1997. [1]
As well as its performances on BBC Radio 2, it also performs on BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Proms and was a core part of the BBC's Electric Proms, now discontinued. As well as light classical music, it also plays pop music, jazz, opera, operetta and much of the popular repertoire previously the mainstay of the disbanded BBC Radio Orchestra.
Martin McEvoy (born 21 April 1951) is an English opera singer, producer, presenter and broadcaster. He has specialised in playing light baritone roles in opera and operetta especially those in the Gilbert & Sullivan repertoire. He broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio. McEvoy is the founder and artistic director of Crystal Clear Opera, London City ...
Elaine Padmore had been a BBC opera producer and had supervised transmissions of the productions for BBC Radio 3 and, during her tenure as artistic director, a wide spectrum of music and singers with many remarkable productions made appearances at Wexford.
BBC Radio 3: Opera On 3. "Ferneyhough's Shadowtime, 12 November 2005". Fitch, Lois, and John Halls. 2010. "Failed Time, Successful Time, Shadowtime: An Interview with Brian Ferneyhough". In Contemporary Music: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Irène Deliège and Max Paddison. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-0497-6.
Louise Fryer and Rattus Rattus (the black rat puppet "host" of the TV series) presented the concert for BBC Radio 3.The featured performers were the six-member starring cast of Horrible Histories (Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond), supported by the Aurora Orchestra with Nicholas Collon conducting.