Metropolitan Opera Saturday Radio Broadcast Schedule (note…if schedule shows noon start and we are not on, check back at 1:00)

December 7, 2024 | 1:00PM

Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Elza van den Heever (Empress), Lise Lindstrom (Dyer’s Wife), Nina Stemme (Nurse), Michael Volle (Barak), Russell Thomas (Emperor), Ryan Speedo Green (Spirit Messenger)

December 14, 2024 | 1:00PM

Performance from October 19, 2024
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Emily D’Angelo (Jess), Ben Bliss (Eric), Ellie Dehn (Also Jess), Kyle Miller (Sensor)

December 21, 2024 | 1:00PM

J. David Jackson; Duke Kim (Tamino), Emily Pogorelc (Pamina), Sean Michael Plumb (Papageno), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Peixin Chen (Sarastro)

December 28, 2024 | 1:00PM

Performance from December 25, 1982
Thomas Fulton; Frederica von Stade (Hansel), Judith Blegen (Gretel), Rosalind Elias (Witch), Jean Kraft (Gertrud), Michael Devlin (Peter), Betsy Norden (Dew Fairy), Diane Kesling (Sandman)

January 4, 2025 | 1:00PM

Performance from October 5, 2024
Marco Armiliato; Benjamin Bernheim (Hoffmann), Christian Van Horn (Four Villains), Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Nicklausse/The Muse), Pretty Yende (Antonia/Stella), Erin Morley (Olympia), Clémentine Margaine (Giulietta), Aaron Blake (Four Servants)

January 11, 2025 | 1:00PM

Maurizio Benini; Luca Salsi (Rigoletto), Erin Morley (Gilda), Pene Pati (Duke of Mantua), Soloman Howard (Sparafucile), Rihab Chaieb (Maddalena)

January 18, 2025 | 1:00PM

Performance from November 23, 2024
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Lise Davidsen (Tosca), Freddie De Tommaso (Cavaradossi), Quinn Kelsey (Scarpia), Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan)

January 25, 2025 | 12:30PM

Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Angel Blue (Aida), Piotr Beczała (Radamès), Judit Kutasi (Amneris), Quinn Kelsey (Amonasro), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Ramfis), Morris Robinson (King)

February 1, 2025 | 1:00PM

Chosen by Angel Blue: Renée Fleming in a performance from November 7, 2007
Marco Armiliato; Renée Fleming (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo), Dwayne Croft (Germont)

February 8, 2025 | 1:00PM

Chosen by Ryan Speedo Green: George London in a performance from March 5, 1960
Thomas Schippers; George London (Dutchman), Leonie Rysanek (Senta), Karl Liebl (Erik), Giorgio Tozzi (Daland)

February 15, 2025 | 1:00PM

Chosen by Lise Davidsen: Jessye Norman in a performance from January 5, 1985
Andrew Davis; Jessye Norman (Ariadne), Gianna Rolandi (Zerbinetta), William Cochran (Bacchus), Maria Ewing (Composer), Dale Duesing (Harlekin)

February 22 2025 | 1:00PM

Chosen by Yannick Nézet-Séguin: Leonard Bernstein conducting a performance from March 21, 1964
Leonard Bernstein; Anselmo Colzani (Falstaff), Gabriella Tucci (Alice), Regina Resnik (Quickly), Mario Sereni (Ford), Judith Raskin (Nannetta), Luigi Alva (Fenton), Rosalind Elias (Meg)

March 1 2025 | 1:00PM

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Bizet's opera with a performance from January 16, 2010
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Elīna Garanča (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don Jose), Barbara Frittoli (Micaela), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Escamillo)

March 8 2025 | 1:00PM

Alexander Soddy; Kristina Mkhitaryan (Mimì), Joseph Calleja (Rodolfo), Brittany Renee (Musetta), Luca Micheletti (Marcello), Nicolas Testé (Colline), Gihoon Kim (Schaunard), Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro)

March 15 2025 | 1:00PM

Susanna Mälkki; Lise Davidsen (Leonore), David Butt Philip (Florestan), René Pape (Rocco), Tomasz Konieczny (Don Pizarro), Ying Fang (Marzelline), Magnus Dietrich (Jaquino), Stephen Milling (Don Fernando)

March 22 2025 | 1:00PM

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Ravel's opera with a performance from February 28, 1981
Manuel Rosenthal; Hilda Harris (Child), Ruth Welting (Fire), Gail Robinson (Princess) / Catherine Malfitano (Thérèse, Fortuneteller), David Holloway (Husband)

March 29 2025 | 1:00PM

Karen Kamensek; Brandon Jovanovich (Captain Ahab), Stephen Costello (Greenhorn), Peter Mattei (Starbuck), Ryan Speedo Green (Queequeg), Janai Brugger (Pip), Malcolm MacKenzie (Stubb), William Burden (Flask)

April 5 2025 | 1:00PM

Performance from fall 2024
Miguel Harth-Bedoya; Angel Blue (Margarita Xirgu), Daniela Mack (Federico García Lorca), Elena Villalón (Nuria), Alfredo Tejada (Ramón Ruiz Alonso)

April 12 2025 | 1:00PM

Evan Rogister; Ben Bliss (Tamino), Golda Schultz (Pamina), Thomas Oliemans (Papageno), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Stephen Milling (Sarastro), Thomas Ebenstein (Monostatos), Shenyang (Sprecher)

April 19 2025 | 1:00PM

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Beverly Sills’s Met debut with a performance from April 19, 1975
Thomas Schippers; Beverly Sills (Pamira), Shirley Verrett (Neocle), Harry Theyard (Cleomene), Justíno Díaz (Maometto)

April 26 2025 | 1:00PM

Joana Mallwitz; Michael Sumuel (Figaro), Olga Kulchynska (Susanna), Federica Lombardi (Countess), Joshua Hopkins (Count), Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino), Elizabeth Bishop (Marcellina), Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo)

May 3 2025 | 1:00PM

Performance from October 29, 2024
Daniele Callegari; Michael Fabiano (Manrico), Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Leonora), Jamie Barton (Azucena), Igor Golovatenko (Count di Luna), Ryan Speedo Green (Ferrando)

May 10 2025 | 1:00PM

Opera TBA, to be selected by listener voting

May 17 2025 | 1:00PM

Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Elza van den Heever (Salome), Peter Mattei (Jochanaan), Gerhard Siegel (Herod), Michelle DeYoung (Herodias), Piotr Buszewski (Narraboth)

May 24 2025 | 1:00PM

John Adams; Julia Bullock (Cleopatra), Gerald Finley (Antony), Paul Appleby (Caesar), Elizabeth DeShong (Octavia)

May 31 2025 | 1:00PM

Giacomo Sagripanti; Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Figaro), Aigul Akhmetshina (Rosina), Jack Swanson (Count Almaviva), Peter Kálmán (Dr. Bartolo), Alexander Vinogradov (Don Basilio)

June 7 2025 | 1:00PM

Keri-Lynn Wilson; Brian Jagde (Hermann), Sonya Yoncheva (Lisa), Violeta Urmana (Countess), Igor Golovatenko (Prince Yeletsky), Maria Barakova (Pauline), Alexey Markov (Tomsky)