9 P.M. (13) TOSCA ''Great Performances at the Met'' begins its fourth season with Luc Bondy's controversial staging of this Puccini opera, starring Karita Mattila, left, in her debut as the prima donna of the title; Marcelo Alvarez as her hot-headed lover, the painter Cavaradossi; and George Gagnidze as Baron Scarpia, the twisted chief of police. Paul Plishka rounds out the cast as Sacristan; Joseph Colaneri conducts. When the opera had its premiere on Sept. 21, Anthony Tommasini, in The New York Times, noted that Mr. Bondy and the production team were jeered when they came out at curtain calls, while Ms. Mattila and Mr. Alvarez received enormous ovations. ''Still, the booing, if a little unfair, was understandable,'' he wrote of the production, which replaces Franco Zeffirelli's from 1985. ''Mr. Bondy's high-concept staging featured stark, spare, cold sets and dispensed entirely with many of the familiar theatrical touches that audiences count on: Tosca placed no candles by the body of the villain Scarpia after murdering him, and did not exactly leap to her death at the end. Mr. Bondy had scoured the work, it seemed, looking for every pretense to flesh out, literally, the eroticism of the lovers and the lecherous kinkiness of Scarpia.'' 10 A.M. (ABC) RACHAEL RAY Aretha Franklin whips up a holiday dish and performs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]