Live from the Met:
The Marriage of Figaro Mozart's timeless comedy, in a new production by Jonathan Miller , launches this winter's season of Radio 3 relays from the New York Metropolitan Opera. In the household of the lecherous Count Almaviva, Figaro's sassy bride-to-be and fellow servant Susanna pioneers one of the best methods of dealing with sexual harassment from an employer.
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James Levine
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7.25 New series
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.
7.45 Act 2
8.40 The Met Opera Quiz
Martin Bernheimer puts listeners' questions to Fr Owen Lee , Bridget Paolucci and Christopher Purdy.
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9.05 Acts 3 and 4 Texaco sponsors the Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, which is broadcast on Radio 3 through the EBU.
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