Since January, the programme Opera in the 20th Century
has been broadcast every Tuesday at 14:00 CET on the Concertzender. The
programme is providing a chronological overview of the development of
opera in the broadest sense of the term, including operette and, for
example, zarzuela from Spain.
The series is complied by programme maker Luc Nijs, who previously worked on our programmes Contemporary Music and The Previous Century. In Opera in the 20th Century
you can listen to both the classics from European opera as well as
works from the local traditions of the Far East and the Middle East.
You can also expect to hear older and less well-known recordings.
“We started in 1900 and will end in 2019. The historical
developments reveals the important themes in the music as a series of
layers. A chronological approach allows us to show how trends have
changed over the years and the way in which the music reflects the
social events of the period in which it was produced.”, explains Luc
Nijs.
We have now arrived in the second half of the 1920s, with its emphasis on modernism and experimentation.
Opera in de 20th Century
Every Tuesday at 14:00 CET on the Concertzender. Click here for an overview of all the programmes.
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