About the Program
The Metropolitan Opera is in its 80th consecutive season of live radio broadcasts, augmented with informative and live intermission features including essays and discussions on the day's opera, artist interviews and roundtables, and quizzes.
To find out more, visit the Official program Web site
Opera Broadcasts
Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera
December 8, 2012 / 1:00 p.m. ET
Luisi; Mattila, Kim, Blythe, Álvarez, Hvorostovsky
Verdi's Aida
December 15, 2012 / 1:00 p.m. ET
Luisi; Monastyrska, Borodina, Alagna, Gagnidze, Kocán, Sebestyén
Rossini's Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
December 22, 2012 / 1:00 p.m. ETAbel; Leonard, Shrader, Pogossov, Del Carlo, Bisch
Adés' The Tempest (Performance from Fall 2012)
December 29, 2012 / 1:00 p.m. ETAdés; Luna, Leonard, Davies, Shrader, Oke Burden, Spence, Keenlyside
Berlioz's Les Troyens
January 5, 2013 / 12:00 noon ETLuisi; Voigt, Graham, Cargill, Giordani, Cutler, Croft, Youn
Verdi's Il Trovatore
January 12, 2013 / 1:00 p.m. ETCallegari; Racette, Blythe, Berti, Markov, Stamboglis
Donizetti's Maria Stuarda
January 19, 2013 / 1:00 p.m. ETBenini; van den Heever, DiDonato, Meli, Hopkins, Rose
Puccini's La Rondine
January 26, 2013 / 1:00 p.m. ETMarin; Opolais, Christy, Filianoti, Brenciu, D. Croft
Rossini's Le Comte Ory
February 2, 2013 / 1:00 p.m. ETBenini; Machaidze, Deshayes, Resmark, Flórez, Gunn, Ulivieri
Donizetti's L'elisir D'amore
February 9, 2013 / 1:00 p.m. ETBenini; Netrebko, Polenzani, Kwiecien, Schrott
Verdi's Rigoletto
February 16, 2013 / 1:00 p.m. ETMariotti; Damrau, Volkova, Beczala, Lucic, Kocán
Bizet's Carmen
February 23, 2013 / 12:30 p.m. ETMariotti; Sherbachenko, Rachvelishvili, Richards, Rhodes
Wagner's Parsifal
March 2, 2013 / 12:00 noon ETGatti; Dalayman, Kaufmann, Mattei, Nikitin, Pape
Verdi's Don Carlo
March 9, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. ETMaazel; Radvanovsky, Smirnova, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Furlanetto, Halfvarson
Zandonai's Francesca Da Rimini
March 16, 2013 / 12:00 noon ETArmiliato; Westbroek, Giordani, Brubaker, Delavan
Archival Broadcast TBA
March 23, 2013 / 1:00 p.m. ETVerdi's La Traviata
March 30, 2013 / 12:30 p.m. ETRenzetti; Damrau, Flórez, Kwiecien, Corbelli
Wagner's Das Rheingold
April 6, 2013 / 1:00 p.m. ETLuisi; Harmer, Blythe, Arwady, Margita, Siegel, Delavan, Owens, Selig, König
Wagner's Die Walküre
April 13, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. ETLuisi; Voigt, Serafin, Blythe, O’Neill, Delavan, König
Wagner's Siegfried
April 20, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. ETLuisi; Voigt, Arwady, Morris, Siegel, Delavan, Owens
Handel's Giulio Cesare
April 27, 2013 / 12:00 noon ETBicket; Dessay, Coote, Bardon, Daniels, Dumaux, Loconsolo
Poulenc's Dialogues Des Carmélites
May 4, 2013 / 11:30 a.m. ETLangrée; Leonard, Racette, Morley, Bishop, Palmer, Appleby
Wagner's Götterdämmerung
May 11, 2013 / 11:00 a.m. ETLuisi; Voigt, Harmer, Cargill, Cleveman, Paterson, Fink, König
