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Survey - The Unbelievable Glory of the Human Voice
Television (Full Length) – 1972
Opera nearly always deals with primitive passions — revenge, jealousy, murder, rampaging sexuality, lust. In fact someone once said that if a martian were to land on earth, he’d get a better idea of human conduct through visiting the Italian opera than from almost anything else.– Presenter Julian Waring
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