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The Metropolitan Opera

on BBC Radio 3

The Grand Old Lady of American music has now been at its Lincoln
Center premises in New York for 16 years.
Fabulously equipped and richly endowed, the company has immense artistic ambitions. How far are these being fulfilled? Are the house's troublesome industrial problems a thing of the past? How well can
Mammon and art co-exist? Natalie Wheen presents this documentary account of the Metropolitan Opera Contributors JAMES LEVINI CATHERINE MALFITANO ,
CHARLES RIECKER , ANTHONY BLISS , JO VOLPE ,
FRANK TAPLIN , RICHARD CASSILLY , PLACIDO DOMINGO and JOAN
INGPEN
Producer DAVIDPERRY

Contributors

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Natalie Wheen
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James Levini
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Catherine Malfitano
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Charles Riecker
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Anthony Bliss
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Jo Volpe
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Frank Taplin
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Richard Cassilly

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