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Gustavo Dudamel: 'Music has the power to change the world'

Zeinab Badawi travels to the Paris Opera to meet one of the most admired, charismatic and flamboyant figures in the world of classical music and opera: the Venezuelan-born conductor Gustavo Dudamel. 

Dudamel is bringing a gust of fresh air, through his youthful star power to the 350-year-old Paris National Opera as its music director

He believes music has the power to change lives. Badawi accompanies Dudamel on a visit to a suburb of Paris where he meets young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in his mission to diversify and expand audiences and to help make the world of opera fit for the future.