In the studios at Maida Vale, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers are warming up for a world premiere recording. It’s an opera that once graced the stages of Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the Berlin State Opera. But the piece has gone without a professional performance for over a century. Now it is completely unknown. The orchestral score was never published—some of the parts are the same hand-written manuscripts that were used by Covent Garden in 1902.
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