The Met Opera Radio Schedule

KHFM Presents
The Met’s Saturday Matinee Broadcasts
Saturdays at 11am

The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts return to KHFM on Saturday, December 10 with the world premiere of “The Hours” from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts and a lineup of superstars Renee Fleming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato. “The Hours,” adapted from Michael Cunningham’s praised novel, is one of several Met firsts, along with Cherubini’s “Medea” (January 7) and “Champion” by Terence Blanchard (April 29).

Join us on Saturdays through June 10 to hear new productions and premieres, all-star casts, and a Listeners’ Choice broadcast. Hosted by Debra Lew Harder.

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2023

March 4, 2023
Listeners’ Choice: Donizetti’s La Favorita

Performance from March 11, 1978
Jesús López-Cobos, conductor

Shirley Verrett (Leonora)
Luciano Pavarotti (Fernando)
Sherrill Milnes (Alfonso)
Bonaldo Giaiotti (Baldassare)

March 11, 2023
Verdi’s La Traviata

Nicola Luisotti, conductor

Angel Blue (Violetta Valéry)
Dmytro Popov (Alfredo Germont)
Artur Ruciński (Giorgio Germont)

March 18, 2023
Wagner’s Lohengrin
New Production

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Piotr Beczała (Lohengrin)
Tamara Wilson (Elsa)
Christine Goerke (Ortrud)
Evgeny Nikitin (Telramund)
Günther Groissböck (Heinrich)
Brian Mulligan (Herald)

March 25, 2023
Bellini’s Norma

Maurizio Benini, conductor

Sonya Yoncheva (Norma)
Ekaterina Gubanova (Adalgisa)
Michael Spyres (Pollione)
Christian Van Horn (Oroveso)

April 1, 2023
Verdi’s Falstaff

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Michael Volle (Falstaff)
Ailyn Pérez (Alice Ford)
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly)
Christopher Maltman (Ford)
Hera Hyesang Park (Nannetta)
Bogdan Volkov (Fenton)
Jennifer Johnson Cano (Meg Page)

April 8, 2023
Puccini’s Tosca

Domingo Hindoyan, conductor

Angela Gheorghiu (Tosca)
Matthew Polenzani (Cavaradossi)
Željko Lučić (Scarpia)
Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan)

April 15, 2023
Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier

Simone Young, conductor

Isabel Leonard (Octavian)
Lise Davidsen (Marschallin)
Günther Groissböck (Baron Ochs)
Erin Morley (Sophie)
Markus Brück (Faninal)
Katharine Goeldner (Annina)
Thomas Ebenstein (Valzacchi)
René Barbera (A Singer)

April 22, 2023
Mozart’s Idomeneo

Performance from Fall 2022
Manfred Honeck, conductor

Michael Spyres (Idomeneo)
Ying Fang (Ilia)
Federica Lombardi (Elettra)
Kate Lindsey (Idamante)
Paolo Fanale (Arbace)
Issachah Savage (High Priest)

April 29, 2023
Britten’s Peter Grimes

Performance from November 9, 2022
Nicholas Carter, conductor

Allan Clayton (Peter Grimes)
Nicole Car (Ellen Orford)
Adam Plachetka (Balstrode)

May 6, 2023
Puccini’s La Bohème

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Eleonora Buratto (Mimì)
Stephen Costello (Rodolfo)
Kristina Mkhitaryan (Musetta)
Davide Luciano (Marcello)
Christian Van Horn (Colline)
Alexey Lavrov (Schaunard)
Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro)

May 13, 2023
Verdi’s Aida

Paolo Carignani, conductor

Leah Crocetto (Aida)
Jorge de León (Radamès)
Olesya Petrova (Amneris)
George Gagnidze (Amonasro)
Christian Van Horn (Ramfis)
Krzysztof Bączyk (The King)

May 20, 2023
Mozart’s Don Giovanni
New Production

Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor

Peter Mattei (Don Giovanni)
Federica Lombardi (Donna Anna)
Adam Plachetka (Leporello)
Ana María Martínez (Donna Elvira)
Ben Bliss (Don Ottavio)
Ying Fang (Zerlina)
Alfred Walker (Masetto)
Alexander Tsymbalyuk (The Commendatore)

May 27, 2023
Terence Blanchard’s Champion
New Production/Met Premiere

Performance from April 29, 2023
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Ryan Speedo Green (Young Emile Griffith)
Eric Owens (Emile Griffith)
Latonia Moore (Emelda Griffith)
Stephanie Blythe (Kathy Hagen)
Paul Groves (Howie Albert)
Eric Greene (Benny “Kid” Paret)

June 3, 2023
Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
New Production

Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor

Lawrence Brownlee (Tamino)
Erin Morley (Pamina)
Thomas Oliemans (Papageno)
Stephen Milling (Sarastro)
Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night)
Brenton Ryan (Monostatos)
Harold Wilson (Sprecher)

June 10, 2023
Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer

Thomas Guggeis, conductor

Tomasz Konieczny (Holländer)
Elza van den Heever (Senta)
Dmitry Belosselskiy (Daland)
Eric Cutler (Erik)
Richard Trey Smagur (Steuermann)