Live from the Met: La Traviata
Verdi's tuneful tale of the beautiful courtesan, Violetta Valery. She has been suffering from consumption but meeting and falling in love with Alfredo Germont gives her a new lease of life. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived.
Alfredo's father is worried about the family honour and begs Violetta to make the ultimate sacrifice - to leave her lover for good. And Rodney Milnes continues his series Opera Snaps -a sideways glance at each of this season's works.
Verdi La Traviata
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York
Metropolitan Opera, conductor Jun Markl Act
7.05 Interval: Talking to Gotham
A series of intervals in which Miles Warde interviews leading figures from New York cultural life. Today's subject is journalist George Plimpton on editing the Paris Review, and on persuading
Leonard Bernstein to let him play triangle with the New York Philharmonic.
7.30 Act 2
8.35 Interval: Met Opera Quiz
Thor Eckert Jr puts listeners' questions to Stephen A Brown , Phillip Gainsley and Stuart Hamilton.
9.00 Act 3
