Archive for the ‘Met Opera’ Category
February 11th, 2023 – Historic Met Opera Broadcast
On Saturday, February 11, there will be a historic Metropolitan Opera broadcast not heard since it was aired live in 1970: Leonard Bernstein leading Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, part of a double bill with Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, in a celebrated production by Franco Zeffirelli. This special broadcast is timed to mark the centenary of Zeffirelli’s birth. Leonard Bernstein’s appearances at the […]
2022-2023 Metropolitan Opera Schedule
All performances at 1PM unless otherwise noted December 10 THE HOURS (Kevin Puts) – Libretto by Greg Pierce – New Production/World Premiere December 17 RIGOLETTO (Verdi) December 24 THE MAGIC FLUTE (Mozart) – Holiday Presentation – Abridged English-language version December 31 Met Debuts On The Air – Archival Broadcast January 7 MEDEA (Cherubini) – New […]
WBJC Operafest 2022 Schedule (9/17/22-12/03/22)
National Centre for the Performing Arts (China) – Part 1 SEPTEMBER 17 Les pêcheurs de perles / Bizet SEPTEMBER 24 Rusalka / Dvořák OCTOBER 1 The Merry Widow / Lehár OCTOBER 8 A Village Teacher / HAO Weiya Opera Festival Chicago OCTOBER 15 Il corsaro / Verdi OCTOBER 22 L’inganno felice / Rossini […]
WBJC Operafest 2022 Schedule 6/18/22-9/10/22
Don’t fret! The Met season might be done, but WBJC stays committed to bringing you great opera performances year-round, Saturdays at 1pm (unless otherwise noted). Santa Fe Opera JUNE 18 -The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs / Bates Opéra de Paris (France) JUNE 25 – The Marriage of Figaro / Mozart Salzburg Festival (Austria) JULY 2 […]
2021-2022 Metropolitan Opera Schedule
All broadcasts at 1 PM Eastern Time except as noted December 4, 2021 Aucoin’s Eurydice – Network Broadcast- Premiere Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Erin Morley (Eurydice), Joshua Hopkins (Orpheus), Jakub Józef Orliński (Orpheus’s Double), Nathan Berg (Father), Barry Banks (Hades) December 11 Puccini’s Tosca Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Sondra Radvanovsky (Tosca), Brian Jagde (Cavaradossi), Evgeny Nikitin (Scarpia), Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan) December 18 Mozart’s The […]
WBJC Operafest 9/11/21-11/27/21
September 11, 2021 OPERA: Tancredi (in Italian) COMPOSER: Gioachino Rossini LIBRETTO: Gaetano Rossi VENUE: National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM PRESENTING COMPANY: Opera Southwest CAST: Tancredi Heather Johnson Amenaide Lindsay Ohse Argirio Heath Huberg Orbazzano Matthew Curran Isaura Madelyn Wanner Roggiero Chelsea Duval-Major ENSEMBLE: Opera Southwest Orchestra CHORUS: Opera Southwest Chorus STAGE DIRECTOR: David Bartholemew […]
WBJC Operafest Schedule 6/12/21-9/4/21
All operas air at 1pm on Saturdays, unless otherwise noted on the listing. Haymarket Opera Company JUNE 12 Acis and Galatea & Apollo e Dafne / Handel (Double-Bill) Operas from the European Broadcasting Union: Royal Opera (UK) JUNE 19 Tosca / Puccini JUNE 26 Les vêpres siciliennes / Verdi JULY 3 Don Giovanni / Mozart […]
Metropolitan Opera 2020-2021 Broadcast Schedule
TOLL BROTHERS–METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK 2020-21 SATURDAY MATINEE BROADCAST SEASON All broadcasts at 1 PM Eastern Time December 5, 2020 @1 PM Prokofiev’s War and Peace Performance from March 2, 2002 Valery Gergiev; Anna Netrebko (Natasha Rostova), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya), Elena Obraztsova (Mme. Akhrosimova), Gegam Grigorian (Count Pierre Bezukhov), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Prince Andrei), Vassily Gerello […]
The Met Returns!
Dear Radio Network Partners, I am very pleased to present the line-up for the 2020-21 Saturday Matinee Radio broadcast season of special encore broadcasts – our 90th consecutive broadcast season on the radio. […] These encore broadcasts will feature new commentary and intermission content from host Mary Jo Heath and commentator Ira Siff, including new artist […]
WBJC OPERAFEST presents: Metropolitan Opera Radio Encore Series 2020
Metropolitan Opera Radio UPCOMING ENCORE BROADCASTS – 1PM SATURDAYS Timings are approximate. May 23, 2020 – Verdi: Rigoletto (performance from 12/7/13) Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sonya Yoncheva, Matthew Polenzani, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado app. 2 hrs. 30 min. May 30, 2020 – Verdi: Requiem (performance from 3/28/64) – in memory of Rosalind Elias Leontyne Price, Rosalind Elias, […]
