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Image credit: Helge Hansen / Sony Music Entertainment Tom Service talks to pianist Leif Ove Andsnes about a new four-year-long performing and recording project with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the 'Mozart Momentum 1785/1786', which explores two of the most crucial years in the composer's life. We visit the Royal Opera House to witness their latest project, 'Current, Rising' - a hyper reality opera, inspired by Shakespeare’s 'The Tempest’, which combines virtual reality with a multi-sensory set. We hear from director Netia Jones and composer Samantha Fernando. The scholar Geoff Baker speaks to Tom about his new book, 'Rethinking Social Action Through Music' - a case study of music schools in Medellín, Colombia's second city, whose recent history has been marked by a courageous fight against its endemic violence and social deprivation. And as Glyndebourne opens its doors for a new Covid-adapted production of Janacek's Káťa Kabanová, Tom snoops on rehearsals and hears from opera director, Damiano Michieletto, and soprano Kateřina Kněžíková, who takes the title role. Glyndebourne's Artistic Director, Stephen Langridge, also explains the challenges the company faces as it embraces new ways of producing opera. Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo
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