Once again each Saturday, WPLN brings you The Metropolitan Opera, now in its 79th season of radio broadcasts. The 22-broadcast season will air over the Toll Brothers–Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network through May 8 and will include 22 broadcasts. Host Margaret Juntwait returns for her sixth season, joined by commentator Ira Siff.
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Click each individual opera title to find a synopsis, biographies for singers, conductors and composers, production photos, sound clips, background information, related intermission features and teacher study guides for each opera.
Listen Saturdays at 12:00 Noon on 90.3 WPLN, unless otherwise noted in the schedule below:
Coming up on the Metropolitan Opera 2009-2010 Season
Il Trittico
December 12, 2009 – Early start at 11:30 am
Stefano Ranzani; Patricia Racette, Heidi Grant Murphy, Stephanie Blythe, Salvatore Licitra, Saimir Pirgu, Željko Lucic, Alessandro Corbelli
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
December 19, 2009
James Levine; Kathleen Kim, Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja, Alan Held
Elektra
December 26, 2009
Fabio Luisi; Susan Bullock, Deborah Voigt, Felicity Palmer, Wolfgang Schmidt, Evgeny Nikitin
Hansel and Gretel
January 2, 2010
Fabio Luisi; Miah Persson, Angelika Kirchschlager, Rosalind Plowright, Philip Langridge, Dwayne Croft
Der Rosenkavalier
January 9, 2010
Edo de Waart; Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Christine Schäfer, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen, Kristinn Sigmundsson
Carmen
January 16, 2010
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Barbara Frittoli, El?na Garan?a, Roberto Alagna, Mariusz Kwiecien
Vanessa – Archive Broadcast from February 1, 1958
January 23, 2010
Dimitri Mitropoulos; Eleanor Steber, Nicolai Gedda, Rosalind Elias, Regina Resnik, Giorgio Tozzi, George Cehanovsky
Stiffelio
January 30, 2010
Plácido Domingo; Sondra Radvanovsky, José Cura, Andrzej Dobber, Phillip Ens
Simon Boccanegra
February 6, 2010
James Levine; Arianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, Plácido Domingo, James Morris
La Fille du Régiment
February 13, 2010
Marco Armiliato; Diana Damrau, Ann Murray, Kiri Te Kanawa, Juan Diego Flórez, Maurizio Muraro
Ariadne auf Naxos
February 20, 2010
Kirill Petrenko; Nina Stemme, Aleksandra Kurzak, Sarah Connolly, Lance Ryan, Jochen Schmeckenbecher
La Bohème
February 27, 2010
Marco Armiliato; Anna Netrebko, Nicole Cabell, Piotr Beczala, Gerald Finley, Massimo Cavalletti, Oren Gradus, Paul Plishka
Attila
March 6, 2010
Riccardo Muti; Violeta Urmana, Ramón Vargas, Carlos Alvarez, Ildar Abdrazakov
The Nose
March 13, 2010
Valery Gergiev; Andrei Popov, Gordon Gietz, Paulo Szot
From the House of the Dead - Performance from Fall 2009
March 20, 2010
Esa-Pekka Salonen; Stefan Margita, Kurt Streit, Peter Hoare, Peter Mattei, Willard White
Hamlet
March 27, 2010
Louis Langrée; Natalie Dessay, Jennifer Larmore, Toby Spence, Simon Keenlyside, James Morris
Aida
April 3, 2010
Paolo Carignani; Hui He, Dolora Zajick, Salvatore Licitra, Carlo Guelfi, Carlo Colombara, Stefan Kocán
Die Zauberflöte
April 10, 2010
Adam Fischer; Julia Kleiter, Albina Shagimuratova, Matthew Polenzani, Nathan Gunn, David Pittsinger, Hans-Peter König
La Traviata
April 17, 2010
Leonard Slatkin; Angela Gheorghiu, James Valenti, Thomas Hampson
Tosca
April 24, 2010
James Levine; Karita Mattila, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, John Del Carlo
Armida
May 1, 2010
Riccardo Frizza; Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruce Ford, José Manuel Zapata, Barry Banks, Kobie van Rensburg
Lulu
May 8, 2010
James Levine; Marlis Petersen, Anne Sofie von Otter, Gary Lehman, Michael Schade, David Pittsinger, James Morris
