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

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Opera Broadcasts

Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera

December 8, 2012 / 12:00 noon CT
Luisi; Mattila, Kim, Blythe, Álvarez, Hvorostovsky

Verdi's Aida

December 15, 2012 / 12:00 noon CT
Luisi; Monastyrska, Borodina, Alagna, Gagnidze, Kocán, Sebestyén

Rossini's Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

December 22, 2012 / 12:00 noon CT
Abel; Leonard, Shrader, Pogossov, Del Carlo, Bisch

Adés' The Tempest (Performance from Fall 2012)

December 29, 2012 / 12:00 noon CT
Adés; Luna, Leonard, Davies, Shrader, Oke Burden, Spence, Keenlyside

Berlioz's Les Troyens

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.

Verdi's Il Trovatore

January 12, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Callegari; Racette, Blythe, Berti, Markov, Stamboglis

Donizetti's Maria Stuarda

January 19, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Benini; van den Heever, DiDonato, Meli, Hopkins, Rose

Puccini's La Rondine

January 26, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Marin; Opolais, Christy, Filianoti, Brenciu, D. Croft

Rossini's Le Comte Ory

February 2, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Benini; Machaidze, Deshayes, Resmark, Flórez, Gunn, Ulivieri

Donizetti's L'elisir D'amore

February 9, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Benini; Netrebko, Polenzani, Kwiecien, Schrott

Verdi's Rigoletto

February 16, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Mariotti; Damrau, Volkova, Beczala, Lucic, Kocán

Bizet's Carmen

February 23, 2013 / 11:30 a.m. CT
Mariotti; Sherbachenko, Rachvelishvili, Richards, Rhodes

Wagner's Parsifal

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.

Verdi's Don Carlo

March 9, 2013 / 12 noon CT
Maazel; Radvanovsky, Smirnova, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Furlanetto, Halfvarson

Zandonai's Francesca Da Rimini

March 16, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. CT
Armiliato; Westbroek, Giordani, Brubaker, Delavan

Archival Broadcast TBA

March 23, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT

Verdi's La Traviata

March 30, 2013 / 11:30 a.m. CT
Renzetti; Damrau, Flórez, Kwiecien, Corbelli

Wagner's Das Rheingold

April 6, 2013 / 12:00 noon CT
Luisi; Harmer, Blythe, Arwady, Margita, Siegel, Delavan, Owens, Selig, König

Wagner's Die Walküre

April 13, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. CT
Luisi; Voigt, Serafin, Blythe, O’Neill, Delavan, König

Wagner's Siegfried

April 20, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. CT
Luisi; Voigt, Arwady, Morris, Siegel, Delavan, Owens

Handel's Giulio Cesare

April 27, 2013 / 12 noon CT
Bicket; Dessay, Coote, Bardon, Daniels, Dumaux, Loconsolo

Poulenc's Dialogues Des Carmélites

May 4, 2013 / 12 noon CT
Langrée; Leonard, Racette, Morley, Bishop, Palmer, Appleby

Wagner's Götterdämmerung

May 11, 2013 / 10:00 a.m. CT
Luisi; Voigt, Harmer, Cargill, Cleveman, Paterson, Fink, König

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Program Schedule

DATE	TIME	SERVICE	STATION
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