Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts 2021–22

Photo of Don Giovanni by Marty Sohl and Metropolitan Opera

From the Metropolitan Opera:

Online, over the airwaves, or via satellite, listeners can hear thrilling live performances by today’s most celebrated artists, as well as legendary singers originally captured live in broadcasts spanning nine decades of Met history.

 

Nina-Stemme in title role of Elektra (April 16)
Photo by Marty Sohl and Met Opera

Broadcast schedule

All times are eastern.

December 4 (1:00 p.m.)
Eurydice (Aucoin) (HD/new production/Met premiere)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Erin Morley (Eurydice), Joshua Hopkins (Orpheus), Jakub Józef Orliński (Orpheus’s Double), Nathan Berg (Father), Barry Banks (Hades)

December 11(1:00 p.m.)
Tosca (Puccini)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Sondra Radvanovsky (Tosca), Brian Jagde (Cavaradossi), Evgeny Nikitin (Scarpia), Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan)

December 18 (1:00 p.m.)
The Magic Flute (Mozart) (abridged English-language version)
Jane Glover; Matthew Polenzani (Tamino), Hera Hyesang Park (Pamina), Rolando Villazón (Papageno), Morris Robinson (Sarastro), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Rodell Rosel (Monostatos), Patrick Carfizzi (Speaker)

December 25 (1:00 p.m.)
Aida at the Met (Verdi) (archival broadcast)
Highlights from great Met Aida broadcasts in celebration of the 90th anniversary of Met broadcasts and the 150th anniversary of Aida

January 1 (1:00 p.m.)
Cinderella (Massenet) (HD/abridged English-language version)
Emmanuel Villaume; Isabel Leonard (Cinderella), Emily D’Angelo (Prince Charming), Stephanie Blythe (Madame de la Haltière), Laurent Naouri (Pandolfe), Jessica Pratt (Fairy Godmother)

January 8 (1:00 p.m.)
Fire Shut up in my Bones (Terence Blanchard) (new production/Met premiere)
Performance from October 23, 2021
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Will Liverman (Charles), Angel Blue (Destiny/Loneliness/Greta), Latonia Moore (Billie)

January 15 (1:00 p.m.)
Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Ryan McKinny (Figaro), Lucy Crowe (Susanna), Golda Schultz (Countess Almaviva), Christian Gerhaher (Count Almaviva), Anna Stéphany (Cherubino), Elizabeth Bishop (Marcellina), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Basilio), Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo)

January 22 (1:00 p.m.)
La Bohème (Puccini)
Carlo Rizzi; Maria Agresta (Mimì), Charles Castronovo (Rodolfo), Gabriella Reyes (Musetta), Lucas Meachem (Marcello), Peter Kellner (Colline), Alexander Birch Elliott (Schaunard), Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro)

January 29 (1:00 p.m.)
Rigoletto (Verdi) (HD/new production)
Daniele Rustioni; Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto), Rosa Feola (Gilda), Piotr Beczała (Duke of Mantua), Andrea Mastroni (Sparafucile), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Maddalena)

February 5 (1:00 p.m.)
The Met’s First Decade on the Air (archival broadcast)
Highlights from historic Met broadcasts

February 12 (1:00 p.m.)
Requiem (Verdi)
Performance from September 11, 2021
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Ailyn Pérez, Elīna Garanča, Matthew Polenzani, Eric Owens

February 19 (1:00 p.m.)
Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky)
Performance from October 9, 2021
Sebastian Weigle; René Pape (Boris), David Butt Philip (Grigory), Ain Anger (Pimen), Maxim Paster (Shuisky), Alexey Markov (Shchelkalov), Stanislav Trofimov (Varlaam)

February 26 (1:00 p.m.)
Celebrating Black History Month (archival broadcast)
Broadcast highlights from some of the Met’s most revered African American stars

March 5 (1:00 p.m.)
Listeners’ Choice: Great Met Broadcasts
Opera TBA

March 12 (1:00 p.m.)
Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss) (HD)
Marek Janowski; Lise Davidsen (Ariadne), Brandon Jovanovich (Bacchus), Brenda Rae (Zerbinetta), Sean Michael Plumb (Harlequin), Isabel Leonard (Composer), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Music Master), Sir Thomas Allen (The Major-Domo)

March 19 (12:00 p.m.)
Rodelinda (Handel)
Harry Bicket; Elza van den Heever (Rodelinda), Iestyn Davies (Bertarido), Paul Appleby (Grimoaldo), Jamie Barton (Eduige), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Unulfo), Adam Plachetka (Garibaldo)

March 26 (12:00 p.m.)
Don Carlos (Verdi) (HD/new prod./Met premiere)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Matthew Polenzani (Don Carlos), Sonya Yoncheva (Élisabeth de Valois), Günther Groissböck (Philippe II), Elīna Garanča (La Princesse Eboli), Etienne Dupuis (Rodrigue), John Relyea (Le grand Inquisiteur)

April 2 (1:00 p.m.)
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
James Gaffigan; Igor Golovatenko (Onegin), Ailyn Pérez (Tatiana), Piotr Beczała (Lenski), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Olga), Ain Anger (Prince Gremin)

April 9 (1:00 p.m.)
Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Christian Van Horn (Figaro), Aida Garifullina (Susanna), Federica Lombardi (Countess Almaviva), Gerald Finley (Count Almaviva), Sasha Cooke (Cherubino), Elizabeth Bishop (Marcellina), Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Basilio), Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo)

April 16 (1:00 p.m.)
Elektra (R. Strauss)
Donald Runnicles; Nina Stemme (Elektra), Lise Davidsen (Chrysothemis), Michaela Schuster (Klytämnestra), Greer Grimsley (Orest), Stefan Vinke (Aegisth)

April 23 (1:00 p.m.)
Porgy and Bess (George and Ira Gershwin)
Performance from Fall 2021
David Robertson; Eric Owens (Porgy), Angel Blue (Bess), Alfred Walker (Crown), Frederick Ballentine (Sportin’ Life), Latonia Moore (Serena), Janai Brugger (Clara), Denyce Graves (Maria), Ryan Speedo Green (Jake)

April 30 (1:00 p.m.)
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
Alexander Soddy; Eleonora Buratto (Cio-Cio-San), Brian Jagde (Pinkerton), Elizabeth DeShong (Suzuki), David Bizic (Sharpless)

May 7 (1:00 p.m.)
Turandot (Puccini) (HD)
Marco Armiliato; Anna Netrebko (Turandot), Yonghoon Lee (Calàf), Michelle Bradley (Liù), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Timur)

May 14 (12:00 p.m.)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner)
Performance from fall 2021
Antonio Pappano; Michael Volle (Hans Sachs), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther Von Stolzing), Lise Davidsen (Eva), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Beckmesser), Georg Zeppenfeld (Pogner), Paul Appleby (David), Claudia Mahnke (Magdalene), Martin Gantner (Kothner), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Nightwatchman)

May 21 (1:00 pm.)
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) (HD/new prod.)
Riccardo Frizza; Nadine Sierra (Lucia), Javier Camarena (Edgardo), Artur Ruciński (Enrico), Matthew Rose (Raimondo)

May 28 (1:00 p.m.)
Akhnaten (Philip Glass)
Karen Kamensek; Anthony Roth Costanzo (Akhnaten), Rihab Chaieb (Nefertiti), Zachary James (Amenhotep III), Disella Lárusdóttir (Queen Tye), Aaron Blake (High Priest of Amon), Richard Bernstein (Aye), Will Liverman (Horemhab)

June 4 (1:00 p.m.)
Hamlet (Brett Dean; libretto by Matthew Jocelyn) (new prod./Met premiere)
Nicholas Carter; Allan Clayton (Hamlet), Brenda Rae (Ophelia), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Sarah Connolly (Gertrude), William Burden (Polonius), Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio), John Tomlinson (Ghost), David Butt Philip (Laertes), Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Rosencrantz), Christopher Lowrey (Guildenstern)

June 11 (1:00 p.m.)
The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky)
Susanna Mälkki; Ben Bliss (Tom Rakewell), Golda Schultz (Anne Trulove), Christian Van Horn (Nick Shadow), Alice Coote (Baba the Turk), James Creswell (Trulove)