RADIO SHOW OF THE WEEK ``CHEVRON-TEXACO METROPOLITAN OPERA''.Byline: - Fred Shuster What: Peter Allen hosts the 62nd season of the opera series broadcast live and in digital stereo from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House. The 2001-2002 season opens with ``Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg'' (Wagner). Where: KUSC-FM (91.5). When: 9 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Saturday. Intermission highlights: The Opera Quiz A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly. Quizzes are also brief assessments used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills. , a tradition since the first broadcast on Dec. 7, 1940, has its season premiere In television, a season première refers to the first episode of a new television season for a series that has been renewed. In North America, a given show's season première often airs in September or October, after several months of reruns. this week. Upcoming: ``La Traviata La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It takes as its basis the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848. ,'' Dec. 22; ``Tosca,'' Jan. 19; ``La Boheme,'' Feb. 16; ``War and Peace,'' March 2; ``Rigoletto,'' March 9. Background: Heard on five continents and in more than 30 countries, most recently Japan and Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. , China. Allen returns for his 27th season. James Levine James Lawrence Levine (b. 23 June 1943) is an American orchestral pianist and conductor and most well known as the music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He is also the current music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. is the Met's artistic director. On the Web: www.metopera.org. You'll like this if: ... you like ``LA Opera Notes'' at 7 p.m. Sundays on KMZT-FM (105.1). CAPTION(S): photo Photo: PETER ALLEN |
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