Live from the Met: Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss (son)'s perennially popular operetta is set in fun-loving, 19th-century
Vienna. Eisenstein is due to report to prison but stops off at a party at Prince Orlofsky's on the way. The prison governor, out to collect his charge, locks up the wrong man, but the mistake cannot be revealed as the man was in his slippers with Eisenstein's wife at home. Sung in German.
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Patrick Summers
Act
7.25 Naked Beauties
In the concluding part of his exploration of the cigar as a cultural icon,
Andrew Jefford considers the pleasures of smoking cigars. He talks to cigar lovers and old-time rollers in Havana and visits some of the latter-day smoking dens and clubs in Britain.
7.50 Act 2
8.50 The Met Opera Quiz
Thor Eckert Jr puts listeners' questions to Stephan A Brown , David Hamilton and Richard Woitach.
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