Sue Arnold's audiobook choice

Opera Explained: La Traviata and the SmartPass Guide to King LearOpera Explained: An Introduction to Verdi – La Traviata, by Thomson Smillie, read by David Timson (68mins, Naxos, £5.95)Enlightenment for the price of a pizza, Italy's other great gift to mankind. This basic but brilliant little series of individual operatic guides has to be the best audio bargain ever devised. I've chosen Traviata to start with not because it is the most frequently performed but because it was the first opera I...

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