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Live from the Met: The Marriage of Figaro Mozart 's fresh take on the farcical master/servant power struggle deepens into the darker world of sexual frustration and jealousy as the Count tries to seduce his wife's maid. During the interval Rodney Milnes continues his series Opera Snaps - a sideways glance at each of this season's Met operas.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Donald Runnicles Actl
7.20 Interval: New York Collections
Tim Marlow visits the Brooklyn Museum of Art's new exhibition American Identities, a survey of American paintings, sculpture and decorative arts over the past 300 years.
7.45 Act 2
8.30 The Met Quiz Opera Quiz
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Station, PO Box 805, New York, NY 10150
8.55 Opera Snaps With Rodney Milnes.
9.00 Acts 3 and 4 BROADCAST GUIDE: For a free copy of the Met Broadcast Guide, call the BBC Information line on [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Figaro Mozart
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes
Conductor:
Donald Runnicles
Unknown:
Tim Marlow
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes.
Countess:
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Susanna:
Korliss Uecker (soprano)
Cherubino:
Kristine Jepson (mezzo)
Count Almaviva:
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Figaro:
Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
Barbanna:
Danielle de Niese (soprano)
Marcellina:
Wendy White (mezzo)
Don Basilio:
Michel Senechal (tenor)
Dr Bartolo:
Paul Plishka (bass)

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