The celebrated singer Roria Tosca plans an evening of love with the painter Mario Cavaradossi, while the Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia, spins a web of evil intrigue. Carol Vaness, Richard Leech and James Morris head the cast in tonight's performance of Puccini's three-act opera of jealousy, sado-masochism, torture, religion and murder set in Rome in 1800.

Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, conductor Daniel Oren

Act 1

7.20 Wonderful Town
Miles Warde talks to Joseph Melillo of the Brooklyn Academy of Music about the New York music scene.

7.50 Act 2

8.30 The Met Opera Quiz
Martin Bernheimer puts listeners' questions to George Jellinek, William Livingstone and Sarah Bryan Miller.

9.00 Act 3