Big Plans

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, fills us in on the upcoming season. Ivanka Trump talks about what she’s learned from her father, the Donald. And Karen Armstrong makes a case for God and explains why religion has been so important to people, from the Paleolithic age to the present. Then, historian Antony Beevor discusses his new book, the first major account of D-Day in over 20 years.

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