Live from the Met: Lucia dl Lammermoor Donizetti's opera launches the 60th season of live broadcasts from the New
York Metropolitan Opera. Ruth Ann
Swenson steps into the shoes of a string of operatic greats - from Patti and Melba to Callas and Sutherland - as Lucy Ashton (Lucia), madly in love with herfamily's deadly enemy, Edgardo, Laird of Ravenswood.
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York
Metropolitan Opera/Edoardo MCiller Act
6.15 Wonderful Town
In the first often conversations with key figures of the New York music scene, Miles Ward goes to Carnegie Hall.
6.40 Act 2
7.20 The Met Opera Quiz
Martin Berheimerputs listeners' questions to Stephen A Brown , Father Owen Lee and Terrence McNally.
7.45 Act 3
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