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

Handel's Rodelinda

December 3, 2011 / 11:30 am CT
Bicket; Fleming, Blythe, Scholl, Davies, Kaiser, Shenyang

Gounod's Faust

December 10, 2011 / 12:00 noon CT
Nézet-Séguin; Poplavskaya, Losier, Kaufmann, Braun, Pape

Puccini's Madama Butterfly

December 17, 2011 / 12:00 pm CT
Domingo; Zhang, Zifchak, Smith, Salsi

Archival Broadcast: Strauss's Die Fledermaus, January 20, 1951

December 31, 2011 / 12:00 pm CT
Ormandy; Piazza, Munsel, Stevens,Kullman, Tucker, J. Brownlee, Gilford

Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel

January 7, 2012 / 12:00 pm CT
Ticciati; Kurzak, Coote, Martens, Brubaker, D. Croft

Archival Broadcast: Bellini's Norma, April 4, 1970

January 14, 2012 / 12:00 pm CT
Bonynge; Sutherland, Horne, Bergonzi, Siepi

The Enchanted Island

January 21, 2012 / 12:00 pm CT
Christie; de Niese, Oropesa, DiDonato, Daniels, Costanzo, Domingo, Pisaroni

Puccini's Tosca

January 28, 2012 / 12:00 pm CT
Franck; Racette, Antonenko, Gagnidze, Plishka

Donizetti's Anna Bolena

February 4, 2012 / 11:00 am CT
Armiliato; Netrebko, TBA, Mumford, Costello, Abdrazakov

Wagner's Götterdämmerung

February 11, 2012 / 11:00 am CT
Levine; Voigt, Harmer, Meier, Lehman, Paterson, Owens, König

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

February 18, 2012 / 12:00 pm CT
Benini; Damrau, C. Lee, Pogossov, Del Carlo, Furlanetto

Verdi's Ernani

February 25, 2012 / 12:00 pm CT
Armiliato; Meade, Giordoni, Hvorostovsky, Furlanetto

Verdi's Aida

March 3, 2012 / 12:00 pm CT
Armiliato; Urmana, Blythe, Álvarez, Ataneli, Morris, Bisch

Mozart's Don Giovanni

March 10, 2012 / 11:00 am CT
Davis; Rebeka, Dasch, Leonard, Polenzani, Finley, Relyea, Shenyang, Morris

Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina

March 17, 2012 / 11:00 am CT
Petrenko; Borodina, Didyk, Galouzine, Gagnidze, Kotscherga, Abdrazakov

Verdi's Macbeth

March 24, 2012 / 12:00 pm CT
Noseda; Michael, Pittas, Hampson, Groissböck

Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore

March 31, 2012 / 12:00 pm CT
Renzetti; Damrau, Flórez, Kwiecien, Corbelli

Massenet's Manon

April 7, 2012 / 11:00 am CT
Luisi; Netrebko, Beczala, Szot, Pittsinger

Verdi's La Traviata

April 14, 2012 / 12:00 pm CT
Luisi; Dessay, Polenzani, Hvorostovsky

Wagner's Siegfried

April 21, 2012 / 11:00 am CT
Levine; Voigt, Bardon, Lehman, Siegel, Terfel, Owens

Wagner's Die Walküre

April 28, 2012 / 11:00 am CT
Levine; Dalayman, Westbroek, Blythe, Kaufmann, Terfel, König

Janácek's The Makropulos Case

May 5, 2012 / 11:30 am CT
Bělohlávek; Mattila, Streit, Reuter, Fox

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Program Schedule

DATE	TIME	SERVICE	STATION
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