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The grande dame of American opera died Monday night at the age of 78. We'll pay tribute to this legend of the voice with excerpts from a conversation Fred Child had with her in 2002, as well as some of her greatest performances. We'll have arias from Verdi's "La Traviata" and Rossini's "The Siege of Corinth" during our first hour. Then we'll conclude the show with more of that conversation, as well as two of her greatest arias from Handel's "Julius Caesar" and Jules Massenet's "Manon."

Frederic Chopin: Etude in B Minor, Op. 25, No. 10 Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Menuet and Trio from String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 The Ysaye String Quartet

Johann Sebastian Bach: No. 12 Fugue in F Minor from "The Well-Tempered Klavier" Pianist Till Fellner

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to "La Clemenza di Tito" The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with conductor Sir Neville Marriner

Peter Tchaikovsky: Waltz from "The Sleeping Beauty," Op. 66 The Kirov Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev

Georges Bizet: Premier Nocturne in F major Pianist Glenn Gould

Antonin Dvorak: Finale from String Quartet No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 34 The American String Quartet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Menuetto from Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 The Chamber Orchestra of Europe with conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt