The Met Opera Radio Schedule

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The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts return to KHFM on Saturday, December 9 with the premiere of Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, the company’s first opera in Spanish in nearly a century, along with the premieres of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (January 20); Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (February 3); and John Adams’s El Niño (May 4). Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones (April 27) and Kevin Puts’s The Hours (May 18) return.

Join us on Saturdays through June 8 to hear new productions and premieres, all-star casts, and a Listeners’ Choice broadcast. Hosted by Debra Lew Harder.

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December 9
Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas

New Production/Met Premiere
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Ailyn Pérez (Florencia)
Gabriella Reyes (Rosalba)
Mario Chang (Arcadio)
Mattia Olivieri (Riolobo)
Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Paula)
Michael Chioldi (Álvaro)
Greer Grimsley (Captain)

December 16
Mozart’s The Magic Flute

Holiday Presentation – abridged English-language version
Patrick Furrer, conductor

Piotr Buszewski (Tamino)
Janai Brugger (Pamina)
Rolando Villazón (Papageno)
Brindley Sherratt (Sarastro)
Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night)
Brenton Ryan (Monostatos)
Patrick Carfizzi (Speaker)

December 23
Wagner’s Tannhäuser

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Andreas Schager (Tannhäuser)
Elza van den Heever (Elisabeth)
Ekaterina Gubanova (Venus)
Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram)
Georg Zeppenfeld (Landgraf Hermann)

December 30
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Honoring the centenaries of Cesare Siepi and Victoria de los Angeles with a performance from April 7, 1956
Max Rudolf, conductor

Cesare Siepi (Figaro)
Victoria de los Angeles (Countess Almaviva)
Nadine Conner (Susanna), Frank Guarrera (Count Almaviva)
Mildred Miller (Cherubino)

January 6
Verdi’s Nabucco

Daniele Callegari, conductor

George Gagnidze (Nabucco)
Liudmyla Monastyrska (Abigaille)
Dmitry Belosselskiy (Zaccaria)
SeokJong Baek (Ismaele)
Maria Barakova (Fenena)

January 13
Puccini’s La Bohème

Marco Armiliato, conductor

Elena Stikhina (Mimì)
Stephen Costello (Rodolfo)
Kristina Mkhitaryan (Musetta)
Adam Plachetka (Marcello)
Krzysztof Bączyk (Colline)
Rodion Pogossov (Schaunard)
Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro)

January 20
Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking

New Production/Met Premiere
Performance from October 21, 2023
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen Prejean)
Ryan McKinny (Joseph De Rocher)
Susan Graham (Mrs. Patrick De Rocher)
Latonia Moore (Sister Rose)

January 27
Bizet’s Carmen

New Production
Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen)
Piotr Beczała (Don José)
Angel Blue (Micaëla)
Kyle Ketelsen (Escamillo)

February 3
Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

New Production/Met Premiere
Performance from November 18, 2023
Kazem Abdullah, conductor

Will Liverman (Malcolm)
Victor Ryan Robertson (Elijah/Street)
Leah Hawkins (Louise/Betty)
Raehann Bryce-Davis (Ella)
Michael Sumuel (Reginald)

February 10
Valentines from the Met: Great Love Duets

Archival Broadcast
Romantic moments in memorable performances from the Met’s radio archives

February 17
Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera

Performance from fall 2023
Carlo Rizzi, conductor

Charles Castronovo (Gustavo III)
Angela Meade (Amelia)
Quinn Kelsey (Count Anckarström)
Liv Redpath (Oscar)
Olesya Petrova (Ulrica)

February 24
Mozart and Beethoven in Concert at the Met

Performances: Mozart’s Requiem from February 24, 2023 and the finale of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 from March 14, 2022
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Golda Schultz, Emily D’Angelo, Dmytro Popov, Vladyslav Buialskyi / Elza van den Heever, Jamie Barton, Piotr Beczala, Ryan Speedo Green

March 2
Listeners’ Choice: Great Met Broadcasts
Verdi’s Eranani
Performance from December 1, 1962

Thomas Schippers; Carlo Bergonzi (Ernani)
Leontyne Price (Elvira)
Cornell MacNeil (Don Carlo)
Giorgio Tozzi (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva)

March 9
Verdi’s La Forza del Destino

New Production
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Lise Davidsen (Leonora)
Brian Jagde (Don Alvaro)
Igor Golovatenko (Don Carlo di Vargas)
Soloman Howard (Marquis of Calatrava/Padre Guardiano)
Judit Kutasi (Preziosilla)
Patrick Carfizzi (Fra Melitone)