Uve from the Met: La Clemenza di Vto
From the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The
1997-8 season of relays from the Manhattan opera house begins with the opera Mozart wrote in the final months of his life to celebrate Leopold ll's coronation in Prague as King of Bohemia. For the occasion, Mazzola adapted a libretto by Metastasio designed to praise the king by drawing parallels with a great monarch of a much earlier age. Sung in Italian.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor James Levine
Act
7.35 The Met Opera Quiz
William Livingstone puts listeners' questions to Ken Benson , Steven Blier and Bridget Paolucci.
8.05 Act 2
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+ Brian Kay 's Pick of the Week: p46