The Traviata chat will begin at 12:45 beginning in preparation for the 1:00 start time of tonight’s performance.

Listeners should note that this afternoon’s broadcast will include the following intermission features: during the first interval, Loren Toolajian will interview Angela Gheorghiu, James Valenti and Thomas Hampson.

During the second intermission, quiz contestants will include Fred Plotkin, Robert Marx and Cage Ames. The moderator will be Keith Miller, in whose honor the panel will perform a trio version of a song from The Creation: “With spandex clad the bass appears.”

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The real-time chat, as always, is at La Casa della Cieca.