About the Program
The Metropolitan Opera is in its 80th consecutive season of live radio broadcasts, augmented with informative and live intermission features including essays and discussions on the day's opera, artist interviews and roundtables, and quizzes.
Start times vary, please check the weekly schedule for each week.
To find out more, visit the Official program Web site
Opera Broadcasts
December 8, 2012 / 12:00 noon CT
Luisi; Mattila, Kim, Blythe, Álvarez, Hvorostovsky
December 15, 2012 / 12:00 noon CT
Luisi; Monastyrska, Borodina, Alagna, Gagnidze, Kocán, Sebestyén
December 22, 2012 / 12:00 noon CT
Abel; Leonard, Shrader, Pogossov, Del Carlo, Bisch
December 29, 2012 / 12:00 noon CT
Adés; Luna, Leonard, Davies, Shrader, Oke Burden, Spence, Keenlyside
January 5, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. CT
Luisi; Voigt, Graham, Cargill, Giordani, Cutler, Croft, Youn
Our broadcast of today's live Metropolitan Opera matinee will briefly pre-empt the start of tonight's A Prairie Home Companion. For the complete broadcast, join MPR News on Sunday at 11 a.m.
January 12, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Callegari; Racette, Blythe, Berti, Markov, Stamboglis
January 19, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Benini; van den Heever, DiDonato, Meli, Hopkins, Rose
January 26, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Marin; Opolais, Christy, Filianoti, Brenciu, D. Croft
February 2, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Benini; Machaidze, Deshayes, Resmark, Flórez, Gunn, Ulivieri
February 9, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Benini; Netrebko, Polenzani, Kwiecien, Schrott
February 16, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Mariotti; Damrau, Volkova, Beczala, Lucic, Kocán
February 23, 2013 / 11:30 a.m. CT
Mariotti; Sherbachenko, Rachvelishvili, Richards, Rhodes
March 2, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. CT
Gatti; Dalayman, Kaufmann, Mattei, Nikitin, Pape
Our broadcast of today's live Metropolitan Opera matinee will briefly pre-empt the start of tonight's A Prairie Home Companion. For the complete broadcast, join MPR News on Sunday at 11 a.m.
March 9, 2013 / 12 noon CT
Maazel; Radvanovsky, Smirnova, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Furlanetto, Halfvarson
March 16, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. CT
Armiliato; Westbroek, Giordani, Brubaker, Delavan
Archival Broadcast TBA
March 23, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
March 30, 2013 / 11:30 a.m. CT
Renzetti; Damrau, Flórez, Kwiecien, Corbelli
April 6, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Luisi; Harmer, Blythe, Arwady, Margita, Siegel, Delavan, Owens, Selig, König
April 13, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. CT
Luisi; Voigt, Serafin, Blythe, O’Neill, Delavan, König
April 20, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. CT
Luisi; Voigt, Arwady, Morris, Siegel, Delavan, Owens
April 27, 2013 / 12 noon CT
Bicket; Dessay, Coote, Bardon, Daniels, Dumaux, Loconsolo
May 4, 2013 / 12 noon CT
Langrée; Leonard, Racette, Morley, Bishop, Palmer, Appleby
May 11, 2013 / 10:00 a.m. CT
Luisi; Voigt, Harmer, Cargill, Cleveman, Paterson, Fink, König
Program Schedule