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The Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Broadcasts


Launched in 1931, the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical program in radio history. During this 81st season twenty-three broadcasts will be presented on Classical KUSC from the Toll Brothers–Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network through May 5, 2012. Margaret Juntwait is the series’s host for her eighth season, joined by commentator Ira Siff.

  Handel's Rodelinda

December 3, 2011 9:30 AM
Bicket; Fleming, Blythe, Scholl, Davies, Kaiser, Shenyang


Gounod's Faust

December 10, 2011 10:00 AM
Nézet-Séguin; Poplavskaya, Losier, Kaufmann, Braun, Pape


Puccini's Madama Butterfly

December 17, 2011 10:00 AM
Domingo; Zhang, Zifchak, Smith, Salsi


Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment   

December 24, 2011 9:00 AM
Abel; Machaidze, Murray, Te Kanawa, Brownlee, Muraro


Strauss's Die Fledermaus (Archival Broadcast from January 20, 1951)

December 31, 2011 10:00 AM
Ormandy; Piazza, Munsel, Stevens,Kullman, Tucker, J. Brownlee, Gilford


Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel   

January 7, 2012 10:00 AM
Ticciati; Kurzak, Coote, Martens, Brubaker, D. Croft


Bellini's Norma (Archival Broadcast from April 4, 1970)

January 14, 2012 10:00 AM
Bonynge; Sutherland, Horne, Bergonzi, Siepi


The Enchanted Island   

January 21, 2012 10:00 AM
Christie; de Niese, Oropesa, DiDonato, Daniels, Costanzo, Domingo, Pisaroni


Puccini's Tosca   

January 28, 2012 10:00 AM
Franck; Racette, Antonenko, James Morris, Plishka


Donizetti's Anna Bolena   

February 4, 2012 9:00 AM
Armiliato; Netrebko, Gubanova, Mumford, Costello, Abdrazakov


Wagner's Götterdämmerung

February 11, 2012 9:00 AM
Luisi; Voigt, Harmer, Meier, Jay Hunter Morris, Paterson, Owens, König


Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

February 18, 2012 10:00 AM
Benini; Damrau, C. Lee, Pogossov, Del Carlo, Furlanetto


Verdi's Ernani

February 25, 2012 10:00 AM
Armiliato; Meade, Giordoni, Hvorostovsky, Furlanetto


Verdi's Aida

March 3, 2012 10:00 AM
Armiliato; Urmana, Blythe, Álvarez, Ataneli, James Morris, Bisch


Mozart's Don Giovanni

March 10, 2012 9:00 AM
Davis; Rebeka, Dehn, Leonard, Polenzani, Finley, Relyea, Shenyang, James Morris


Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina

March 17, 2012 9:00 AM
Petrenko; Borodina, Didyk, Galouzine, Gagnidze, Kotscherga, Abdrazakov


Verdi's Macbeth

March 24, 2012 10:00 AM
Noseda; Michael, Pittas, Hampson, Groissböck


Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore

March 31, 2012 10:00 AM
Renzetti; Damrau, Flórez, Kwiecien, Corbelli


Massenet's Manon

April 7, 2012 9:00 AM
Luisi; Netrebko, Beczala, Szot, Pittsinger


Verdi's La Traviata

April 14, 2012 10:00 AM
Luisi; Dessay, Polenzani, Hvorostovsky


Wagner's Siegfried

April 21, 2012 8:00 AM
Luisi; Voigt, Bardon, Jay Hunter Morris, Siegel, Terfel, Owens


Wagner's Die Walküre

April 28, 2012 8:00 AM
Luisi; Voigt, Westbroek, Blythe, Skelton, Terfel, König


Janácek's The Makropulos Case

May 5, 2012 9:30 AM
BÄ›lohlávek; Mattila, Streit, Reuter, Fox
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