Metropolitan Opera Saturday Radio Broadcast Schedule
Radio broadcast begins at 1:00 PM on WJOP-LP 96.3 FM Newburyport except for operas on March 21st and April 18th, at which the broadcast will begin at 12:30 PM. Interested in Opera? Love the MET? Check out their website for more information.
December 7, 2019 | 1 PM
Glass’ Akhnaten
Karen Kamensek; Dísella Lárusdóttir (Queen Tye), J'Nai Bridges (Nefertiti), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Akhnaten), Aaron Blake (High Priest of Amon), Will Liverman (Horemhab), Richard Bernstein (Aye), Zachary James (Amenhotep III)
December 14, 2019 | 1 PM
Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades
Vasily Petrenko; Lise Davidsen (Lisa), Elena Maximova (Pauline), Larissa Diadkova (The Countess), Yusif Eyvazov (Hermann), Igor Golovatenko (Yeletsky), Alexey Markov (Tomsky)
December 21, 2019 | 1 PM
Verdi’s Macbeth
Performance from Fall 2019. Marco Armiliato; Anna Netrebko (Lady Macbeth), Matthew Polenzani (Macduff), Željko Lučić (Macbeth), Ildar Abdrazakov (Banquo)
December 28, 2019 | 1 PM
Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Lothar Koenigs; Ying Fang (Pamina), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), David Portillo (Tamino), Rodell Rosel (Monostatos), Joshua Hopkins (Papageno), Patrick Carfizzi (Speaker), Soloman Howard (Sarastro)
January 4, 2020 | 12 PM
Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier
Sir Simon Rattle; Camilla Nylund (Marschallin), Magdalena Kožená (Octavian), Golda Schultz (Sophie), Katharine Goeldner (Annina), Matthew Polenzani (A Singer), Thomas Ebenstein (Valzacchi), Markus Eiche (Faninal), Günther Groissböck (Baron Ochs)
January 11, 2020 | 1 PM | HD**
Berg’s Wozzeck
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Elza van den Heever (Marie), Tamara Mumford (Margret), Christopher Ventris (The Drum-Major), Gerhard Siegel (The Captain), Andrew Staples (Andres), Peter Mattei (Wozzeck), Christian Van Horn (Doctor)
January 18, 2020 | 1 PM
Verdi’s La Traviata
Karel Mark Chichon; Aleksandra Kurzak (Violetta Valéry), Dmytro Popov (Alfredo Germont), Quinn Kelsey (Giorgio Germont)
January 25, 2020 | 1 PM
Puccini’s La Bohème
Performance from Fall 2019. Marco Armiliato; Ailyn Pérez (Mimì), Olga Kulchynska (Musetta), Matthew Polenzani (Rodolfo), David Bizic (Marcello), Andrei Zhilikovsky (Schaunard), Jongmin Park (Colline), Arthur Woodley (Benoit/Alcindoro)
February 1, 2020 | 1 PM | HD**
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
David Robertson; Angel Blue (Bess), Golda Schultz (Clara), Latonia Moore (Serena), Denyce Graves (Maria), Frederick Ballentine (Sportin' Life), Eric Owens (Porgy), Alfred Walker (Crown), Donovan Singletary (Jake)
February 8, 2020 | 1 PM
Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust
Edward Gardner; Elīna Garanča (Marguerite), Michael Spyres (Faust), Ildar Abdrazakov (Méphistophélès)
February 15, 2020 | 1 PM
Massenet’s Manon
Performance from October 26, 2019. Maurizio Benini; Lisette Oropesa (Manon), Michael Fabiano (Chevalier des Grieux), Carlo Bosi (Guillot de Morfontaine), Artur Ruciński (Lescaut), Brett Polegato (de Brétigny), Kwangchul Youn (Comte des Grieux)
February 22, 2020 | 1 PM
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Cornelius Meister; Anita Hartig (Countess), Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Susanna), Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino), MaryAnn McCormick (Marcellina), Mariusz Kwiecień (Count), Adam Plachetka (Figaro), Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo)
February 29, 2020 | 1 PM | HD**
Handel’s Agrippina
Harry Bicket; Brenda Rae (Poppea), Joyce DiDonato (Agrippina), Kate Lindsey (Nerone), Iestyn Davies (Ottone), Duncan Rock (Pallante), Matthew Rose (Claudio)
March 7, 2020 | 1 PM
Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Harry Bicket; Nicole Car (Fiordiligi), Serena Malfi (Dorabella), Heidi Stober (Despina), Ben Bliss (Ferrando), Luca Pisaroni (Guglielmo), Gerald Finley (Don Alfonso)
March 14, 2020 | 1 PM | HD**
Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer
Valery Gergiev; Anja Kampe (Senta), Mihoko Fujimura (Mary), Sergey Skorokhodov (Erik), David Portillo (Steuermann), Sir Bryn Terfel (Holländer), Franz-Josef Selig (Daland)
March 21, 2020 | 12:30 PM
Rossini’s La Cenerentola
James Gaffigan; Tara Erraught (Angelina), Javier Camarena (Don Ramiro), Davide Luciano (Dandini), Maurizio Muraro (Don Magnifico), Christian Van Horn (Alidoro)
March 28, 2020 | 1 PM
Massenet’s Werther
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Erin Morley (Sophie), Joyce DiDonato (Charlotte), Piotr Beczała (Werther), Etienne Dupuis (Albert), Alan Opie (Le Bailli)
April 4, 2020 | 1 PM
Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice
Performance from Fall 2019. Mark Wigglesworth; Hei-Kyung Hong (Euridice), Hera Hyesang Park (Amore), Jamie Barton (Orfeo)
April 11, 2020 | 1 PM | HD**
Puccini’s Tosca
Bertrand de Billy; Anna Netrebko (Tosca), Brian Jagde (Cavaradossi), Michael Volle (Scarpia), Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan)
April 18, 2020 | 12:30 PM
Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra
Carlo Rizzi; Ailyn Pérez (Amelia Grimaldi), Joseph Calleja (Gabriele Adorno), Carlos Álvarez (Simon Boccanegra), Elchin Azizov (Paolo), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Jacopo Fiesco)
April 25, 2020 | 1:00 PM
Puccini’s Turandot
Carlo Rizzi; Nina Stemme (Turandot), Hibla Gerzmava (Liù), Marco Berti (Calàf), James Morris (Timur)
May 2, 2020 | 1 PM
Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová
Lothar Koenigs; Susanna Phillips (Káťa), Daniela Mack (Varvara), Dolora Zajick (Kabanicha), Pavel Černoch (Boris), Štefan Margita (Tichon), Paul Appleby (Váňya Kudrjáš), Sir John Tomlinson (Dikoj)
May 9, 2020 | 1 PM | HD**
Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda
Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau (Maria Stuarda), Jamie Barton (Elisabetta), Stephen Costello (Leicester), Andrzej Filończyk (Cecil), Michele Pertusi (Talbot)