Opera on 3

Supporting Content

• How to compose an epic score

  Répétiteur Susanna Stranders explores the music of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre.

  Duration: 3:56

• Why The Royal Opera love performing Die Walküre

  The conductor, director and singers on the challenges and rewards of performing the opera

  Duration: 5:02

• "Put down everything and immerse yourself!"

  Watch Sir Antonio Pappano introduce Wagner's Ring specially for Radio 3 listeners.

  Duration: 3:03

• Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, interviewed for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour after the Florida school shooting in 2018

  Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, interviewed after the Florida school shooting.

  Duration: 6:34
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• Gounod's Faust from the Opéra Bastille, Paris

• Alfredo Catalani's Edmea

• Janacek's Jenůfa

• Janacek's Jenůfa
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