MET Opera on Saturday 3/18 starts at 12:00 NOON!! Wagner’s Lohengrin is a longer opera.
March 16, 2023METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE RADIO BROADCAST
Wagner’s Lohengrin
Saturday, March 18 at 12:00 p.m. ET
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022-23 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with Wagner’s sweeping legend Lohengrin. Tenor Piotr Beczala stars as the mysterious Knight of the Swan, who pledges to aid a falsely accused woman and heal her divided country. Soprano Tamara Wilson is his beloved Elsa. Soprano Christine Goerke is the evil sorceress Ortrud, with bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin as her ambitious husband Telramund, and bass Günther Groissböck as King Henry the Fowler. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Met orchestra and chorus in this soaring masterpiece, performed in a new production by François Girard. Wagner’s Lohengrin will be heard live over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, March 18 on WJOP 96.3 FM Newburyport. Listeners can visit www.Metopera.org for more information about the Met Broadcasts. WJOP 96.3 is also streaming live on www.ncmhub.org
