THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Subject to change Last update: 2016-17 TOLL BROTHERS-METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK SEASON 3/22/2016
Date Opera On-Air
2016 December 3 MANON LESCAUT (Puccini) First SatMat Marco Armiliato; Anna Netrebko (Manon Lescaut), Marcelo Álvarez (des Grieux), Christopher Maltman (Lescaut), 12:30 Brindley Sherratt (Geronte de Ravoir) December 10 L'AMOUR DE LOIN (Saariaho) — New Production/Met Premiere 1:00 HD** Susanna Mälkki; Susanna Phillips (Clémence), Tamara Mumford (The Pilgrim), Eric Owens (Jaufré Rudel) December 17 SALOME (R. Strauss) Johannes Debus; Catherine Naglestad (Salome), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Herodias), Gerhard Siegel (Herod), Kang Wang (Narraboth), 1:00 Željko Lučić (Jochanaan) December 24 HANSEL AND GRETEL (Humperdinck) — in English Performance from January 1, 2008 1:00 Vladimir Jurowski; Christine Schäfer (Gretel), Alice Coote (Hansel), Rosalind Plowright (Gertrude), Philip Langridge (The Witch), Alan Held (Peter) December 31 L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI (Rossini) Performance from Fall 2016 1:00 James Levine; Elizabeth DeShong (Isabella), René Barbera (Lindoro), Nicola Alaimo (Taddeo), Ildar Abdrazakov (Mustafà) 2017 January 7 NABUCCO (Verdi) James Levine; Liudmyla Monastyrska (Abigaille), Jamie Barton (Fenena), Russell Thomas (Ismaele), Plácido Domingo (Nabucco), 1:00 HD** Dmitry Belosselskiy (Zaccaria) January 14 LA BOHEME (Puccini) Carlo Rizzi; Ailyn Pérez (Mimì), Susanna Phillips (Musetta), Michael Fabiano (Rodolfo), Alessio Arduini (Marcello), 1:00 Alexey Lavrov (Schaunard), Christian Van Horn (Colline), John Del Carlo (Benoit/Alcindoro) January 21 ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod) — New Production 1:00 HD** Gianandrea Noseda; Diana Damrau (Juliette), Vittorio Grigolo (Roméo), Elliot Madore (Mercutio), Mikhail Petrenko (Frère Laurent) January 28 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Rossini) Maurizio Benini; Pretty Yende (Rosina), Dmitry Korchak (Count Almaviva), Peter Mattei (Figaro), Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo), 1:00 Mikhail Petrenko (Don Basilio) February 4 RIGOLETTO (Verdi) Pier Giorgio Morandi; Olga Peretyatko (Gilda), Oksana Volkova (Maddalena), Stephen Costello (Duke of Mantua), Željko Lučić (Rigoletto), 1:00 Andrea Mastroni (Sparafucile) February 11 CARMEN (Bizet) 1:00 Dan Ettinger; Maria Agresta (Micaëla), Clémentine Margaine (Carmen), Marcelo Álvarez (Don José), Kyle Ketelsen (Escamillo) February 18 I PURITANI (Bellini) Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau (Elvira Walton), Javier Camarena (Lord Arturo Talbot), Alexey Markov (Riccardo Forth), 1:00 Luca Pisaroni (Giorgio Walton) February 25 RUSALKA (Dvořák) — New Production Mark Elder; Kristine Opolais (Rusalka), Katarina Dalayman (The Foreign Princess), Jamie Barton (Ježibaba), 1:00 HD** Brandon Jovanovich (The Prince), Eric Owens (The Water Sprite) March 4 WERTHER (Massenet) Edward Gardner; Anna Christy (Sophie), Isabel Leonard (Charlotte), Vittorio Grigolo (Werther), David Bižić (Albert), 1:00 Maurizio Muraro (Le Bailli) March 11 LA TRAVIATA (Verdi) 1:00 HD** Nicola Luisotti; Sonya Yoncheva (Violetta Valéry), Michael Fabiano (Alfredo Germont), Thomas Hampson (Giorgio Germont) March 18 GUILLAUME TELL (Rossini) — New Production Performance from Fall 2016 1:00 Fabio Luisi; Marina Rebeka (Mathilde), Janai Brugger (Jemmy), Marianna Pizzolato (Hedwige), Bryan Hymel (Arnold), Gerald Finley (Guillaume Tell), Marco Spotti (Walter Furst), Kwangchul Youn (Melcthal), John Relyea (Gesler) March 25 IDOMENEO (Mozart) James Levine; Elza van den Heever (Elettra), Nadine Sierra (Ilia), Alice Coote (Idamante), Matthew Polenzani (Idomeneo), 1:00 HD** Alan Opie (Arbace) April 1 FIDELIO (Beethoven) Sebastian Weigle; Adrianne Pieczonka (Leonore), Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Marzelline), Klaus Florian Vogt (Florestan), 1:00 David Portillo (Jaquino), Greer Grimsley (Don Pizarro), Falk Struckmann (Rocco), Günther Groissböck (Don Fernando) April 8 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Wagner) — New Production Performance from October 8, 2016 1:00 Simon Rattle; Nina Stemme (Isolde), Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), Stuart Skelton (Tristan), Evgeny Nikitin (Kurwenal), René Pape (King Marke) April 15 AIDA (Verdi) Daniele Rustioni; Krassimira Stoyanova (Aida), Violeta Urmana (Amneris), Riccardo Massi (Radamès), George Gagnidze (Amonasro), 12:30 James Morris (Ramfis), Soloman Howard (The King) April 22 EUGENE ONEGIN (Tchaikovsky) Robin Ticciati; Anna Netrebko (Tatiana), Elena Maximova (Olga), Alexey Dolgov (Lenski), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Onegin), 1:00 HD** Štefan Kocán (Gremin) April 29 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (Wagner) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Amber Wagner (Senta), Dolora Zajick (Mary), Jay Hunter Morris (Erik), Ben Bliss (The Steersman), 1:00 Michael Volle (The Dutchman), Franz-Josef Selig (Daland) May 6 CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Alfano) 12:30 Marco Armiliato; Patricia Racette (Roxane), Roberto Alagna (Cyrano), Atalla Ayan (Christian), Roberto Frontali (de Guiche) May 13 DER ROSENKAVALIER (R. Strauss) — New Production James Levine; Renée Fleming (Marschallin), Elīna Garanča (Octavian), Erin Morley (Sophie), Matthew Polenzani (A Singer), 12:30 HD** Marcus Brück (Faninal), Günther Groissböck (Baron Ochs) ALL TIMES EASTERN ** HD transmission begins at 12:55 PM; Radio Broadcast begins at 1:00 PM