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THE METROPOLITAN Subject to change as of 2/11/2020 2020-21 TOLL BROTHERS- INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK SEASON

On- Date Opera Air 2020 October 10 (Verdi) – New Production Yannick Nézet-Séguin; (Aida), (Amneris), Piotr Beczała (Radamès), Ludovic Tézier (Amonasro), 12:55 HD ONLY (Ramfis), Krzysztof Bączyk (King) November 7 (Verdi) ; (Leonora), (Azucena), Roberto Aronica (Manrico), (Count di Luna), 12:55 HD ONLY (Ferrando) December 5 THE FIERY ANGEL (Prokofiev) – New Production/Met Premiere Michail Jurowski; Svetlana Sozdateleva (Renata), Jill Grove (Hostess of the Inn), Elena Manistina (Sorceress), 1:00 First SatMat Dmitry Golovnin (Agrippa von Nettesheim), Evgeny Nikitin (Ruprecht), Ante Jerkunica (Inquisitor) December 12 (Beethoven) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; (Leonore), (Marzelline), Brandon Jovanovich (Florestan), Alek Shrader (Jaquino), 1:00 * HD Tomasz Konieczny (Don Pizarro), Franz-Josef Selig (Rocco), Christian Van Horn (Don Fernando) December 19 HANSEL AND GRETEL (Humperdinck) – English-language version by David Pountney Edward Gardner; Hera Hyesang Park (Gretel), Elizabeth DeShong (Hansel), Michaela Martens (Gertrude), John Daszak (Witch), 1:00 (Peter) December 26 AIDA (Verdi) – New Production Performance from October 10, 2020 1:00 Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Anna Netrebko (Aida), Anita Rachvelishvili (Amneris), Piotr Beczała (Radamès), Ludovic Tézier (Amonasro), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Ramfis), Krzysztof Bączyk (King) 2021 January 2 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Rossini) Giacomo Sagripanti; (Rosina), Alexandria Shiner (Berta), (Count Almaviva), Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Figaro), 1:00 Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo), (Don Basilio) January 9 LA BOHÈME (Puccini) Domingo Hindoyan; Eleonora Buratto (Mimì), (Musetta), Dmytro Popov (Rodolfo), Quinn Kelsey (Marcello), Davide Luciano (Schaunard), 1:00 Jongmin Park (Colline), Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro) January 16 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart) – New Production ; (Pamina), (Queen of the Night), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Tamino), Thomas Oliemans (Papageno), 1:00 * HD Christian Van Horn (Sprecher), (Sarastro) January 23 (Verdi) 1:00 ; (Violetta Valéry), TBA (Alfredo Germont), Igor Golovatenko (Giorgio Germont) January 30 ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; (Juliette), Julie Boulianne (Stéphano), (Roméo), David Portillo (Tybalt), 1:00 * HD Joshua Hopkins (Mercutio), (Capulet), Ildar Abdrazakov (Frère Laurent) February 6 Listeners' Choice: Great Met Broadcasts Opera TBA 1:00

February 13 Listeners' Choice: Great Met Broadcasts Opera TBA 1:00

February 20 Listeners' Choice: Great Met Broadcasts Opera TBA 1:00

February 27 (Lehár) Special Encore Performance from January 17, 2015 1:00 * HD Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming (Hanna Glawari), Kelli O’Hara (Valencienne), (Danilo), Alek Shrader (Camille de Rosillon), (Baron Mirko Zeta) March 6 (Bizet) 12:00 ; (Micaëla), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Carmen), Russell Thomas (Don José), Alexander Vinogradov (Escamillo) March 13 (Handel) ; Kristina Mkhitaryan (Cleopatra), (Sesto), (Cornelia), Iestyn Davies (Giulio Cesare), 11:30 (Tolomeo), Duncan Rock (Achilla) March 20 (Berg) ; (Lulu), (Countess Geschwitz), Matthias Klink (Alwa), Robert Watson (Painter/African Prince), 12:30 (Prince/Manservant/Marquis), Johan Reuter (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), David Soar (Animal Trainer/Acrobat), James Morris (Schigolch) March 27 (Mozart) – New Production Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Ailyn Pérez (Donna Anna), (Donna Elvira), Hera Hyesang Park (Zerlina), Ben Bliss (Don Ottavio), 1:00 * HD (Don Giovanni), (Leporello), Alfred Walker (Masetto), (Commendatore) April 3 (Dvořák) Jakub Hrůša; Sonya Yoncheva (Rusalka), Ekaterina Gubanova (Foreign Princess), Okka von der Damerau (Ježibaba), Piotr Beczała (Prince), 12:30 Eric Owens (Vodník) April 10 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN (Offenbach) Performance from Fall 2020 1:00 Daniele Rustioni; (Olympia), Olga Kulchynska (Antonia/Stella), Veronica Simeoni (Giulietta), (Nicklausse/Muse), Olesya Petrova (Antonia's Mother), (Hoffmann), (Four Villains) April 17 (Heggie) – New Production/Met Premiere Yannick Nézet-Séguin; (Sister Rose), Joyce DiDonato (Sister ), Susan Graham (Mrs. Patrick De Rocher), 1:00 * HD Etienne Dupuis (Joseph De Rocher) April 24 (R. Strauss) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Elza van den Heever (Empress), (Dyer's Wife), (Nurse), Klaus Florian Vogt (Emperor), 12:00 HD (Barak), Ryan Speedo Green (Messenger) May 1 (Donizetti) Performance from Fall 2020 1:00 ; (Elizabeth I), (Sara), Stephen Costello (Roberto Devereux), Davide Luciano (Duke of Nottingham) May 8 (Verdi) Marco Armiliato; Anna Netrebko (Abigaille), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Fenena), Najmiddin Mavlyanov (Ismaele), (Nabucco), 1:00 * HD Dmitry Belosselskiy (Zaccaria) May 15 (Wagner) Performance from Fall 2020 1:00 Hartmut Haenchen; (Isolde), Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), (Tristan), (Kurwenal), Günther Groissböck (King Marke) May 22 (Bellini) 1:00 * HD Maurizio Benini; (Imogene), (Gualtiero), Christopher Maltman (Ernesto), Nicolas Testé (Goffredo) May 29 IL TROVATORE (Verdi) Michele Mariotti; Sonya Yoncheva (Leonora), Anita Rachvelishvili (Azucena), Russell Thomas (Manrico), Ludovic Tézier (Count di Luna), 1:00 Ryan Speedo Green (Ferrando) June 5 (Britten) ; Matthew Polenzani (Captain Vere), Joshua Hopkins (Billy Budd), (Claggart), Michael Todd Simpson (Mr. Redburn), 1:00 Brandon Cedel (Lt. Ratcliffe), David Soar (Mr. Flint), James Morris (Dansker) ALL TIMES EASTERN * HD transmission begins at 12:55 PM; Radio Broadcast begins at 1:00 PM