Live from the Met:
Carmen Once condemned as immoral, Bizet's opera tells the story of the smouldering gypsy girl Carmen and the hapless Don Jose. The drama leads from Carmen's famous entrance outside the tobacco factoryto the final tragic events at the bullring in Seville. And Rodney Milnes continues his series Opera Snaps -a sideways glance at each of this season's works. Bizet Carmen
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York
Metropolitan Opera, conductor Bertrand de Billy Act
6.55 Interval: Talking to Gotham
Continuing the series of intervals in which Miles Warde interviews leading figures from New York's cultural life. Today's subject is president of Grove Atlantic,
Morgan Entrekin , who at 44 has already been a leading light in the world of publishing for more than 20 years.
7.20 Act 2
8.05 Interval: Met Opera Quiz
Thor Eckhert Jr puts listeners' questions to Father Owen Lee , Sarah Bryan Miller and Willie Antony Waters.
8.20 Opera Snaps With Rodney Milnes.
8.30 Acts 3 and 4