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Live Metropolitan Opera Saturday Radio Broadcasts
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December 4, 2021 – June 11, 2022
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December
December 4, 2021
EURYDICE (Matthew Aucoin)
Libretto by Sarah Ruhl
New Production/Met Premiere
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Erin Morley (Eurydice)
Joshua Hopkins (Orpheus)
Jakub Józef Orliński (Orpheus’s Double)
Nathan Berg (Father)
Barry Banks (Hades)
Approx. Length: 3 hours
December 11, 2021
TOSCA (Puccini)
Performance from Apr 11, 2020
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Sondra Radvanovsky (Tosca)
Brian Jagde (Cavaradossi)
Evgeny Nikitin (Scarpia)
Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan)
Approx. Length: 3 hours
December 18, 2021
THE MAGIC FLUTE (Mozart)
Abridged English-language version
Performance from Dec 26, 2020
Jane Glover, conductor
Matthew Polenzani (Tamino)
Hera Hyesang Park (Pamina)
Rolando Villazón (Papageno)
Morris Robinson (Sarastro)
Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night)
Rodell Rosel (Monostatos)
Patrick Carfizzi (Speaker)
Approx. Length: 2 hours
January 2022
January 1, 2022
CINDERELLA (Massenet)
Abridged English-language version by Kelley Rourke
Network Premiere
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
Isabel Leonard (Cinderella)
Emily D’Angelo (Prince Charming)
Stephanie Blythe (Madame de la Haltière)
Laurent Naouri (Pandolfe)
Jessica Pratt (Fairy Godmother)
Approx. Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
January 8, 2022
FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES (Terence Blanchard)
Libretto by Kasi Lemmons
New Production/Met Premiere
Performance from October 23, 2021
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Will Liverman (Charles)
Angel Blue (Destiny/Loneliness/Greta)
Latonia Moore (Billie)
Walter Russell III (Char’es-Baby)
Approx. Length: 3 hours
January 15, 2022
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart)
Performance from Mar 13, 2021
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Ryan McKinny (Figaro)
Lucy Crowe (Susanna)
Golda Schultz (Countess Almaviva)
Christian Gerhaher (Count Almaviva)
Anna Stéphany (Cherubino)
Elizabeth Bishop (Marcellina)
Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Basilio)
Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo)
Approx. Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
January 22, 2022
LA BOHÈME (Puccini)
Performance from Apr 10, 2021
Carlo Rizzi, conductor
Maria Agresta (Mimì)
Charles Castronovo (Rodolfo)
Gabriella Reyes (Musetta)
Lucas Meachem (Marcello)
Peter Kellner (Colline)
Alexander Birch Elliott (Schaunard)
Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro)
Approx. Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
March 12, 2022
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (R. Strauss)
Performance from May 7, 2011
Marek Janowski, conductor
Lise Davidsen (Ariadne)
Brandon Jovanovich (Bacchus)
Brenda Rae (Zerbinetta)
Sean Michael Plumb (Harlequin)
Isabel Leonard (Composer)
Johannes Martin Kränzle (Music Master)
Sir Thomas Allen (The Major-Domo)
Approx. Length: 3 hours, 4 minutes
March 26, 2022
DON CARLOS (Verdi)
New Production/Met Premiere
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Matthew Polenzani (Don Carlos)
Sonya Yoncheva (Élisabeth de Valois)
Eric Owens (Philippe II)
Elīna Garanča (La Princesse Eboli)
Etienne Dupuis (Rodrigue)
John Relyea (Le grand Inquisiteur)
Approx. Length: 5 hours, 14 minutes
April 9, 2022
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart)
Performance from January 15, 2022
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Christian Van Horn (Figaro)
Ying Fang (Susanna)
Federica Lombardi (Countess Almaviva)
Gerald Finley (Count Almaviva)
Sasha Cooke (Cherubino)
Elizabeth Bishop (Marcellina)
Giuseppe Filianoti (Don Basilio)
Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo)
Approx. Length: 3 hours, 36 minutes
April 23, 2022
The Gershwins’ PORGY AND BESS
Performance from Fall 2021
David Robertson, conductor
Eric Owens (Porgy)
Angel Blue (Bess)
Alfred Walker (Crown)
Frederick Ballentine (Sportin’ Life)
Latonia Moore (Serena)
Janai Brugger (Clara)
Denyce Graves (Maria)
Ryan Speedo Green (Jake)
Approx. Length: 3 hours, 36 minutes
May 14, 2022
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG (Wagner)
Performance from Fall 2021
Antonio Pappano, conductor
Michael Volle (Hans Sachs)
Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther Von Stolzing)
Lise Davidsen (Eva)
Johannes Martin Kränzle (Beckmesser)
Georg Zeppenfeld (Pogner)
Paul Appleby (David)
Claudia Mahnke (Magdalene)
Martin Gantner (Kothner)
Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Nightwatchman)
Approx. Length: 5 hours, 40 minutes
May 28, 2022
AKHNATEN (Philip Glass)
Performance from December 7, 2019
Karen Kamensek, conductor
Anthony Roth Costanzo (Akhnaten)
Rihab Chaieb (Nefertiti)
Zachary James (Amenhotep III)
Disella Lárusdóttir (Queen Tye)
Aaron Blake (High Priest of Amon)
Richard Bernstein (Aye)
Will Liverman (Horemhab)
Approx. Length: 3 hours, 35 minutes
June 4, 2022
HAMLET (Brett Dean)
Libretto by Matthew Jocelyn
New Production/Met Premiere
Nicholas Carter, conductor
Allan Clayton (Hamlet)
Brenda Rae (Ophelia)
Rod Gilfry (Claudius)
Sarah Connolly (Gertrude)
William Burden (Polonius)
Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio)
John Relyea (Ghost)
David Butt Philip (Laertes)
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Rosencrantz)
Christopher Lowrey (Guildenstern)
Approx. Length: 3 hours, 34 minutes