Photo of Don Giovanni by Marty Sohl and Metropolitan Opera
From the Metropolitan Opera:
Online, over the airwaves, or via satellite, listeners can hear thrilling live performances by today’s most celebrated artists, as well as legendary singers originally captured live in broadcasts spanning nine decades of Met history.
Renée Fleming stars in The Hours at the Met (Dec. 10). Photo courtesy of Met Opera.
All times are eastern.
December 10th
The Hours (Kevin Puts) (New Production/Met Premiere)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Renée Fleming (Clarissa Vaughan), Kelli O’Hara (Laura Brown), Joyce DiDonato (Virginia Woolf), Kathleen Kim (Barbara / Mrs. Latch), Sylvia D’Eramo (Kitty / Vanessa), Denyce Graves (Sally), John Holiday (Man Under the Arch / Hotel Clerk), William Burden (Louis), Sean Panikkar (Leonard Woolf), Kyle Ketelsen (Richard), Brandon Cedel (Dan Brown)
December 17
Rigoletto (Verdi)
Speranza Scappucci; Lisette Oropesa (Gilda), Aigul Akhmetshina (Maddalena), Stephen Costello (Duke of Mantua), Luca Salsi (Rigoletto), Andrea Mastroni (Sparafucile)
December 24th
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Duncan Ward; Joélle Harvey (Pamina), Aleksandra Olczyk (Queen of the Night), Ben Bliss (Tamino), Joshua Hopkins (Papageno), Alan Held (Speaker), Soloman Howard (Sarastro), Rodell Rosel (Monostatos)
December 31
Met Debuts On The Air (Archival Broadcast)
Highlights of artists making their Metropolitan Opera debuts during live broadcasts.
January 7
Medea (Cherubini) (New Production/Met Premiere)
Carlo Rizzi; Sondra Radvanovsky (Medea), Janai Brugger (Glauce), Ekaterina Gubanova (Neris), Matthew Polenzani (Giasone), Michele Pertusi (Creonte)
January 14
Fedora (Giordano) (New Production)
Marco Armiliato; Sonya Yoncheva (Fedora), Rosa Feola (Olga), Piotr Beczała (Loris Ipanoff), Artur Ruciński (De Siriex)
January 21
L’elisir D’amore (Donizetti)
Michele Gamba; Golda Schultz (Adina), Javier Camarena (Nemorino), Davide Luciano (Belcore), Ambrogio Maestri (Dulcamara)
January 28
Dialogues des Carmelites (Poulenc)
Bertrand de Billy; Ailyn Pérez (Blanche de la Force), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Mme. Lidoine), Sabine Devieilhe (Constance), Jamie Barton (Mère Marie), Alice Coote (Mme. de Croissy), Piotr Buszewski (Chevalier de la Force), Laurent Naouri (Marquis de la Force)
February 4
Macbeth (Verdi)
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; Martina Arroyo (Lady Macbeth), Franco Tagliavinii (Macduff), Sherrill Milnes (Macbeth), Ruggero Raimondi (Banquo)
February 11
Celebrating Franco Zeffirelli
The Met commemorates the centenary of Franco Zeffirelli’s birth with a special presentation drawn from the company’s radio archives.
February 18
Don Carlo (Verdi)
Carlo Rizzi; Eleonora Buratto (Elisabeth de Valois), Anita Rachvelishvili (Princess Eboli), Russell Thomas (Don Carlo), Peter Mattei (Rodrigo, Count of Posa), Günther Groissböck (Filippo II), John Relyea (The Grand Inquisitor)
February 25
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Shostakovich)
Keri-Lynn Wilson; Eva-Maria Westbroek (Katerina Ismailova), Brandon Jovanovich (Sergei), Nikolai Schukoff (Zinovy Ismailov), John Relyea (Boris Ismailov), Maria Barakova (Sonyetka), Rodell Rosel (Shabby Peasant), Goran Jurić (Priest), Alexey Shishlyaev (Police Sergeant), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Old Convict)
March 4
Listeners’ Choice: Donizetti’s La Favorita
Performance from March 11, 1978
López-Cobos; Shirley Verrett (Leonora), Luciano Pavarotti (Fernando), Sherrill Milnes (Alfonso), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Baldassare)
March 11
Verdi’s La Traviata
Nicola Luisotti; Angel Blue (Violetta Valéry), Dmytro Popov (Alfredo Germont), Artur Ruciński (Giorgio Germont)
Interviews: Angel Blue, Artur Ruciński, Peter Gelb
Opera Quiz Guest: Christopher Maltman
March 18 (12PM)
Wagner’s Lohengrin – New Production
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Piotr Beczała (Lohengrin), Tamara Wilson (Elsa), Christine Goerke (Ortrud), Evgeny Nikitin (Telramund), Günther Groissböck (Heinrich), Brian Mulligan (Herald)
Interviews: Piotr Beczała, Tamara Wilson, Christine Goerke, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michael Volle
Opera Quiz Guest: Marie-Nicole Lemieux
March 25 (12PM)
Bellini’s Norma
Maurizio Benini; Helena Dix (Norma), Ekaterina Gubanova (Adalgisa), Michael Spyres (Pollione), Christian Van Horn (Oroveso)
April 1 (12:30PM)
Verdi’s Falstaff
Daniele Rustioni; Michael Volle (Falstaff), Ailyn Pérez (Alice Ford), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly), Christopher Maltman (Ford), Hera Hyesang Park (Nannetta), Bogdan Volkov (Fenton), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Meg Page)
April 8
Puccini’s Tosca
Domingo Hindoyan; Liudmyla Monastyrska (Tosca), Matthew Polenzani (Cavaradossi), Željko Lučić (Scarpia), Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan)
Interviews: Liudmyla Monastyrska, Matthew Polenzani, Željko Lučić
Opera Quiz Guest: Samantha Hankey
April 15 (12PM)
Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
Simone Young; Samantha Hankey (Octavian), Lise Davidsen (Marschallin), Günther Groissböck (Baron Ochs), Erin Morley (Sophie), Brian Mulligan (Faninal), Katharine Goeldner (Annina), Thomas Ebenstein (Valzacchi), René Barbera (A Singer)
Interviews: Lise Davidsen, Samantha Hankey, Erin Morley, Günther Groissböck, Simone Young
Opera Quiz Guest: Latonia Moore
April 22
Mozart’s Idomeneo
Performance from October 20, 2022
Manfred Honeck; Michael Spyres (Idomeneo), Ying Fang (Ilia), Federica Lombardi (Elettra), Kate Lindsey (Idamante), Paolo Fanale (Arbace), Issachah Savage (High Priest)
Interviews: Michael Spyres, Manfred Honeck
April 29
Britten’s Peter Grimes
Performance from November 9, 2022
Nicholas Carter; Allan Clayton (Peter Grimes), Nicole Car (Ellen Orford), Adam Plachetka (Balstrode)
Interviews: Allan Clayton, Nicole Car, Nicholas Carter
May 6
Puccini’s La Bohème
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Eleonora Buratto (Mimì), Stephen Costello (Rodolfo), Sylvia D’Eramo (Musetta), Davide Luciano (Marcello), Christian Van Horn (Colline), Alexey Lavrov (Schaunard), Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro)
Interviews: Eleonora Buratto, Stephen Costello, Sylvia D’Eramo, Alexey Lavrov, Christian Van Horn, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Peter Mattei
Opera Quiz Guest: Ben Bliss
May 13
Verdi’s Aida
Paolo Carignani; Leah Crocetto (Aida), Jorge de Léon (Radamès), Olesya Petrova (Amneris), George Gagnidze (Amonasro), Christian Van Horn (Ramfis), Krzysztof Bączyk (The King)
May 20
Mozart’s Don Giovanni – New Production
Nathalie Stutzmann; Peter Mattei (Don Giovanni), Federica Lombardi (Donna Anna), Adam Plachetka (Leporello), Ana María Martínez (Donna Elvira), Ben Bliss (Don Ottavio), Ying Fang (Zerlina), Alfred Walker (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (The Commendatore)
June 3
Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte – New Production
Nathalie Stutzmann; Lawrence Brownlee (Tamino), Erin Morley (Pamina), Thomas Oliemans (Papageno), Stephen Milling (Sarastro), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Brenton Ryan (Monostatos), Harold Wilson (Sprecher)
June 10
Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer
Thomas Guggeis; Tomasz Konieczny (Holländer), Elza van den Heever (Senta), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Daland), Eric Cutler (Erik), Richard Trey Smagur (Steuermann)
