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Lammermoor
LIVE Donizetti's opera based ona text by Walter Scott , Lucia (Lucy Ashton) is in love with her family's sworn enemy. Her brother forces her into a more suitable marriage. On her wedding night Lucia, driven to desperation, kills her new husband and loses her reason in the most famous mad scene in all opera. Sung in Italian.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor Carlo Rizzi
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7.15 New York Stories
Throughout the century, the bright lights of New York have attracted some of the world's finest writers, and our own time is no exception. In an interval series of specially commisioned works for Radio 3, novelists, essayists and playwrights who have moved to New York present portraits of the city through fiction and non-fiction.
3: French-born novelist Catherine
Textier reads a new short story about her adopted city.
7.40 Act 2
8.20 The Met Opera Quiz
Martin Bernheimer puts listeners' questions to Phillip Gainsley , Alfred Hubay and Alan Wagner.
SEND QUESTIONS TO: Met Opera Quiz, FDR Station. PO Box 805. New York, NY 10150. USA
8.45 Act 3
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