Live from the Met: Khovanshchina
Musorgsky's epic historical opera, as arranged by Shostakovich. Moscow, 1689: splintered factions of every political and religious persuasion are at each other's throats in a power vacuum that prepared the way for the rise of Peter the Great. But. as always with Musorgsky, it is the long-oppressed, long-suffering Russian people who bear the brunt.
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, conductor Valery Gergiev Act
7.15 New York Stories
Continuing the interval series in which novelists, essayists and poets who have moved to New York present portraits of the city through fiction and non-fiction.
6: British writer James Lasdun recalls his days as a volunteer in an East Side shelter for the homeless.
7.40 Act 2
8.50 Improving on History
Adrian Mourby looks at the liberties that are taken when turning real events and lives into grand opera. Repeat
9.10 Act 3