sundry items

BBC 3's Night Waves devotes the better part of an hour to Mark Rylance, and has the radio version of Collaborators, John Hodge's play about Bulgakov and Stalin seen lately @ NTLive, up for the next couple of days.

NPR has last night's Carmina Burana from Carnegie Hall, the season opener with the Chicago Symphony, conducted by Muti, praised by Superconductor.

The Met livestreams Otello (Botha, Fleming, Struckmann, c. Bychkov) this coming Tuesday at 7:25 ET. (That's one of the free ones, the schedule for which is here.)

Lastly, PBS is forced to issue [sigh] a concise and to the point response to Governor Romney's "off-the-cuff" yet typically opportunistic threat to defund Public Television in last night's dazzling display of rhetorical brilliance debate. Governor, that bandwagon by now is made of Bondo and will no longer pass Massachusetts State Inspection. You might as well donate it to charity.