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- Original title:What Makes Opera Grand?
- Category:TV Episode / Drama / History / Music
- Released:1952–1961
- Director:Seymour Robbie
- Actors:Carlo Bergonzi,Leonard Bernstein,Hans Conried
- Writer:Leonard Bernstein
- Duration:1h 16min
- Video type:TV Episode
- Rating 7.3
- Votes 654
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Short summary
Leonard Bernstein explains how the music of the plot increases the emotional impact of the words that are sung. He compares the spoken words in English to scenes in a play to the singing version as it appears in opera. Most of the examples are from the Puccini opera La Bohème.
| Episode credited cast: | |||
 | Carlo Bergonzi | - | Rodolfo in 'La Boheme' |
 | Leonard Bernstein | - | Himself - Conductor and Commentator |
 | Hans Conried | - | Iago in 'Othello' / Marcello in acted version of 'La Boheme' |
 | Alistair Cooke | - | Himself - Host |
| Evans Evans | - | Musetta in acted version of 'La Boheme' |
| Frank Guarrera | - | Iago in 'Otello' / Marcello in 'La Boheme' |
 | Kenneth Haigh | - | Rodolfo in acted version of 'La Boheme' |
| Laurel Hurley | - | Musetta in 'La Boheme' |
| Brenda Lewis | - | Herself (Operatic Examples) |
| William Lewis | - | Operatic Examples |
 | Jean Marsh | - | Mimi in 'La Boheme' |
| Metropolitan Opera Chorus | - | Chorus (as Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera) |
| Martha Mödl | - | Isolde in 'Tristan and Isolde' |
| Marcella Pobbe | - | Mimi in 'La Boheme' |
| Norman Scott | - | Himself (Operatic Examples) |