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Metropolitan Opera for February 16, 2008
11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut
The Opera will begin at 11:00 am Mountain Time.
Text in Italian by Luigi Illica and others, based on the novel by Abbé Prévost; Conductor: James Levine
The live opera radio broadcasts are augmented with informative and live intermission features including essays and discussions on the day's opera, artist interviews and roundtables, and the Opera Quiz. More than 3,000 listeners submit quiz questions each season to be used on the Quiz and the listeners whose questions are used during the broadcasts will receive a special gift package. You may submit your questions here.
The broadcasts are heard on an independent network of more than 360 stations in the United States and on stations in 42 countries on five continents. The 2005-06 Metropolitan Opera broadcast season is sponsored by Toll Brothers, America's luxury home builder, with generous long-term support from The Annenberg Foundation and the Vincent A. Stabile Foundation.
The Opera Information Center developed by the Metropolitan Opera Guild offers a wealth of information about each opera being broadcast this season, as well as an archive of those heard over the last five seasons. The "Broadcasts" section includes background information for each opera and composer, the story, audio clips, photographs from the Met productions and curriculum materials for classroom and music teachers to encourage students to learn more about opera. In addition, the site contains information on the intermissions and transcripts of many of the intermission features, Network news, and links to other opera-related websites.
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