meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Intelligence Squared

The Sunday Debate: Verdi vs Wagner

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

News Commentary, Arts, News, Society & Culture

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Verdi created some of the most beloved operas of all time. Wagner’s music is in an altogether more intellectual sphere. Back in 2013, Stephen Fry hosted a debate featuring cultural critic and author Norman Lebrecht, novelist and critic Philip Hensher and conductor Paul Wynne Griffiths, plus opera singers Dušica Bijeli and John Tomlinson, to decide which of the two highly influential composers take top billing. — We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be.  Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to podcasts@intelligencesquared.com or Tweet us @intelligence2.  And if you’d like to support our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations, as well as ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content, early access and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared.. Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

The climate crisis is something many of us feel pretty anxious about and it's already hitting some of the world's poorest hardest

0:06.2

But practical action is a global development charity with 60 years of experience in tackling how to alleviate poverty for those on the front line of

0:13.6

Turbine change people like Pauline from Kenya

0:16.4

Drought has killed nearly all the animals that she and her husband have spent a lifetime looking after and the climate crisis

0:22.0

It doesn't just impact nature. It's decimated her income her savings and it's changing a wider community's way of life

0:28.5

But practical action believes that where there's action there's hope practical action have introduced solar-powered

0:34.7

Irrigation under training people such as Pauline to grow vegetables with support

0:39.1

She now grows a number of different crops and sells them for enough profit to keep her children fed and in school with your help

0:46.1

practical action can do even more

0:48.1

regenerating depleted land into productive farms

0:50.5

repurposing waste into energy and helping to overcome injustice for women and vulnerable groups

0:55.4

Please take action today and turn your hope for a better future into reality

0:59.5

Your donation can help build a world where the lives and livelihoods of the world's poorest people are no longer at the mercy of climate change or

1:07.3

Environmental degradation while there's still time visit practical action dot org to get involved

1:12.7

You're listening to intelligence squared and this week on the Sunday debate

1:16.1

We're heading to the Royal Opera House in London for a classic this week from 2013. Here's the host Stephen Fry with more

1:23.2

Thank you audience and

1:26.9

Thank you everyone out there who's watching the live stream and welcome to the Paul Hamlin Hall here in the Royal Opera House at Coven Garden

1:35.1

I'm so proud and happy to introduce you to the

1:38.9

Verdi Vessus Wagner the 200th birthday debate

1:44.0

Here it's an event. I've been looking forward to for a long time and it's just part of the Deloitte Ignite

1:50.2

Verdi Wagner 200th birthday festival

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Intelligence Squared, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Intelligence Squared and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.