Live from the Met: Carmen
In Bizet's opera, based on the novel by Prosper
Merimee, a young soldier called Don Jose is manipulated by a beautiful and wilful gypsy girl who involves him in a life of crime and inflames his murderous jealousy. The opera is set in the streets and taverns of Seville and the hills of Andalusia, and its strongly coloured background of bullfighting, smuggling, knife-fighting and flamenco dancing still makes it one of the most popular operas ever written.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor David Robertson
Act
7.25 New York Stories
Throughout the century, the bright lights of New York have attracted some of the world's finest writers, and our own time is no exception. In a nine-part interval series of specially commisioned works for Radio 3, novelists, essayists and playwrights who have moved to New York present portraits of the city through fiction and non-fiction.
Part 2.
7.55 Act 2
8.30 The Met Opera Quiz
William Livingstone puts listeners' questions to Cori Ellison , George Jellinek and Brian Zeger.
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9.00 Acts 3 and 4 BROADCAST GUIDE: For a free copy of the Met Broadcast Guide, send an 14 x 25cm sae to [address removed]