Faust
Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna join an all-star cast in Gounod's reworking of the DrFaustus story. The philosopher's pact with the Devil wreaks havoc all round in a tale of seduction and murder.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Bertrand de Billy Prologue; Act 1
7.25 Twenty Minutes: Letters from the New World Outerness: a Story or Two
Irish writer Colum McCann , now a resident of New York, thinks about what it is that makes America different from Ireland.
7.45 Act 2
8.40 Twenty Minutes: The Cloisters Tim Marlow visits the part of the Metropolitan Museum of New York devotedto medieval acquisitions, including five cloisters and an apse transported stone by stone from Europe.
9.00 Opera Snaps Rodney Milnes takes a sideways glance at this evening's opera.
9.05 Act 3; Epilogue