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Opera 101

NPR
Published January 6, 1995 at 11:00 PM CST

Daniel talks to Fred Plotkin, the author of "Opera 101" about father-daughter relationships in the operas of Verdi. Plotkin says that recent scholarship has revealed that Verdi had an illigetimate daughter, and that is probably the reason that he explored father/daughter conflicts so much in his work.

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