From A New Cd, 'Maestro

From a new CD, "Maestro of the Met," celebrating James Levine's 25 years at the Metropolitan Opera, we'll hear music from Giacomo Puccini's opera "Manon Lescaut" (mah-noh(n) les-KOH): Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli (chay-CHEEL-yah BAHR-toh-lee) sings the madrigal "Sulla vetta tu del monte" (SOO-lah VET-tah TOO del MOHN-tay—"On the mountaintop you roam"). Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. (DG 449 229-2)