Live from the Met: The Merry Widow When Hanna Glawari arrives at the Pontevedrian prince's birthday party she causes quite a stir - her elderly husband has died and she is now a very rich woman. The Pontevedrian ambassador knows her fortune is vital to his tiny country and if she marries a Frenchman it will be a disaster.
The obvious solution is to find her a suitable husband. And Rodney Milnes continues his series Opera Snaps- a sideways glance at each of this season's works. Lehar The Merry Widow
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York
Metropolitan Opera, conductor AsherFisch Actl
7.10 Interval: Talking to Gotham
The first of a series in which Miles Warde interviews leading figures from New York's cultural life. Today's subject is Ric Burns , a film maker and historian whose most recent project is a ten-hour documentary called simply New York.
7.45 Acts 2 and 3