Uve from the Met: Simon Boccanegra Verdi interweaves passion and politics in his dramatic account of intrigue and the struggle between the patricians and the plebeians in the 14th-century city-state of Genoa. This is one of the most sensuously lyrical of Verdi's operas, with atmospheric musical seascapes, nocturnal romances and eloquent ensembles, and it contains one of Verdi's most rounded portraits in the figure of Boccanegra, the self-made man of war who rises to become doge of Genoa but sacrifices himself for his daughter Amelia's happiness with the man she loves - his young political opponent Gabriele Adorno.
Chorus and Orchestra of the New
York Metropolitan Opera, conductor James Levine
Act
7.00 New York Stories
The ongoing series of interval talks for Radio 3 in which novelists, essayists and playwrights who have moved to New York present portraits of the city through fiction and non-fiction. When the Kentucky-born science fiction writer Jack Womack first arrived in New York, it was as excitingly alien as another planet; but now, he argues, it is fast becoming as provincial as Peoria.
7.30 Act 2
8.25 The Met Opera Quiz
Martin Bernheimer puts listeners' questions to John Ardoin , Speight Jenkins and Michelle Krisel.
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8.55 Act 3
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