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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
Texaco sponsors the Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, which is broadcast on Radio 3 through the EBU. BROADCAST GUIDE: For a free copy of the Met Broadcast Guide call the BBC Information Line on [number removed] Programme of the Week: page 137

Contributors

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Ruth Ann
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Lucy Ashton
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Miles Ward
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Martin Berheimerputs
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Stephen A Brown
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Father Owen Lee
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Terrence McNally.
Lucia:
Ruth Ann Swenson (soprano)
Edgardo:
Ramon Vargas (tenor)
Enrico:
Leo Nucci (baritone)
Lord Arturo Bucklaw:
Gregory Turay (tenor)
Raimondo Bidebent:
Michele Pertusi (baritone)
Alisa:
Diane Elias (mezzo)
Normanno:
Ronald Naldi (tenor)

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