Live from the Met

Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.

Listen to the greatest opera stars in the world, via live satellite transmission from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, and be part of an enduring radio tradition. The Metropolitan Opera's Saturday matinee broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical program in radio history. This year marks the 80th season, which will include twenty-two broadcasts.

Margaret Juntwait returns as the series’s host for her seventh season, joined by commentator Ira Siff. Visit www.operainfo.org for synopses, artist biographies, production photos, sound clips, background information, and teacher study guides for every opera in the broadcast season.

2010 - 2011 Broadcast Schedule

	Don Carlo December 18, 2010 Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Yonghoon Lee, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson
	The Bartered Bride Archive Broadcast from December 2, 1978 December 25, 2010 James Levine; Teresa Stratas, Nicolai Gedda, Jon Vickers, Martti Talvela
	Pelléas et Mélisande January 1, 2011 Simon Rattle; Magdalena Kožená, Felicity Palmer, Stéphane Degout, Gerald Finley, Willard White
	La Fanciulla del West January 8, 2011 Nicola Luisotti; Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Lucio Gallo
	La Traviata January 15, 2011 Gianandrea Noseda; Marina Poplavskaya, Matthew Polenzani, Andrzej Dobber
	Rigoletto January 22, 2011 Paolo Arrivabeni; Nino Machaidze, Kirstin Chávez, Joseph Calleja, Giovanni Meoni, Stefan Kocán
	Tosca January 29, 2011 Marco Armiliato; Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcelo Álvarez, Falk Struckmann, Paul Plishka
	Simon Boccanegra February 5, 2011 James Levine; Barbara Frittoli, Ramón Vargas, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ferruccio Furlanetto
	Nixon in China February 12, 2011 John Adams; Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena, Richard Paul Fink
	Don Pasquale February 19, 2011 James Levine; Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carlo
	Iphigénie en Tauride February 26, 2011 Patrick Summers; Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, Gordon Hawkins
	Armida March 5, 2011 Riccardo Frizza; Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, John Osborn, Barry Banks, Kobie van Rensburg
	Boris Godunov March 12, 2011 Valery Gergiev; Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Vladimir Ognovenko
	Lucia di Lammermoor March 19, 2011 Patrick Summers; Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn
	The Queen of Spades March 26, 2011 Andris Nelsons; Karita Mattila, Tamara Mumford, Dolora Zajick, Vladimir Galouzine, Alexey Markov, Peter Mattei
	Das Rheingold April 2, 2011 James Levine; Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Dwayne Croft, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter König
	Le Comte Ory April 9, 2011 Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi
	Wozzeck April 16, 2011 James Levine; Waltraud Meier, Stuart Skelton, Gerhard Siegel, Matthias Goerne, Walter Fink
	Capriccio April 23, 2011 Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, Peter Rose
	Il Trovatore April 30, 2011 James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Stefan Kocán
	Ariadne auf Naxos May 7, 2011 Fabio Luisi; Violeta Urmana, Kathleen Kim, Joyce DiDonato, Robert Dean Smith, Thomas Allen
	Die Walküre May 14, 2011 James Levine; Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König