Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
The first of this season's broadcasts from the New
York Metropolitan Opera is Shostakovich's "tragedy-satire" of "love, and how love could have been if the world wasn't full of hideous things".
Graham Vick directs this new production of the opera Stalin suppressed because of its earthy attitude to sex and violence.
Sung in Russian.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor James Conlon
Acts 1 and 2 8.15 The Met Opera Quiz Edward Downes puts listeners' questions to opera buffs John Ardoin , Cori Ellison and Terrence
McNally in the first Met
Opera Quiz of the season.
8.45 Acts 3 and 4 Sponsored by the Texaco
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network and the EBU.
As part of the Operama season, tomorrow's Sunday Play at 7.30pm is The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a dramatisation of the novel on which the opera is based.