THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Subject to change as of 2/11/2020 2020-21 TOLL BROTHERS-METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK SEASON
On- Date Opera Air 2020 October 10 AIDA (Verdi) – New Production Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Anna Netrebko (Aida), Anita Rachvelishvili (Amneris), Piotr Beczała (Radamès), Ludovic Tézier (Amonasro), 12:55 HD ONLY Dmitry Belosselskiy (Ramfis), Krzysztof Bączyk (King) November 7 IL TROVATORE (Verdi) Michele Mariotti; Sonya Yoncheva (Leonora), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Azucena), Roberto Aronica (Manrico), Quinn Kelsey (Count di Luna), 12:55 HD ONLY Kwangchul Youn (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 FIDELIO (Beethoven) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Lise Davidsen (Leonore), Golda Schultz (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 Thomas Hampson (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; Pretty Yende (Rosina), Alexandria Shiner (Berta), Lawrence Brownlee (Count Almaviva), Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Figaro), 1:00 Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo), Ildar Abdrazakov (Don Basilio) January 9 LA BOHÈME (Puccini) Domingo Hindoyan; Eleonora Buratto (Mimì), Heidi Stober (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 Gustavo Dudamel; Christiane Karg (Pamina), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Tamino), Thomas Oliemans (Papageno), 1:00 * HD Christian Van Horn (Sprecher), Stephen Milling (Sarastro) January 23 LA TRAVIATA (Verdi) 1:00 Speranza Scappucci; Anita Hartig (Violetta Valéry), TBA (Alfredo Germont), Igor Golovatenko (Giorgio Germont) January 30 ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Nadine Sierra (Juliette), Julie Boulianne (Stéphano), Stephen Costello (Roméo), David Portillo (Tybalt), 1:00 * HD Joshua Hopkins (Mercutio), Laurent Naouri (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 THE MERRY WIDOW (Lehár) Special Encore Performance from January 17, 2015 1:00 * HD Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming (Hanna Glawari), Kelli O’Hara (Valencienne), Nathan Gunn (Danilo), Alek Shrader (Camille de Rosillon), Thomas Allen (Baron Mirko Zeta) March 6 CARMEN (Bizet) 12:00 Marco Armiliato; Susanna Phillips (Micaëla), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Carmen), Russell Thomas (Don José), Alexander Vinogradov (Escamillo) March 13 GIULIO CESARE (Handel) Harry Bicket; Kristina Mkhitaryan (Cleopatra), Kate Lindsey (Sesto), Karen Cargill (Cornelia), Iestyn Davies (Giulio Cesare), 11:30 Anthony Roth Costanzo (Tolomeo), Duncan Rock (Achilla) March 20 LULU (Berg) Sebastian Weigle; Brenda Rae (Lulu), Susan Graham (Countess Geschwitz), Matthias Klink (Alwa), Robert Watson (Painter/African Prince), 12:30 Gerhard Siegel (Prince/Manservant/Marquis), Johan Reuter (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), David Soar (Animal Trainer/Acrobat), James Morris (Schigolch) March 27 DON GIOVANNI (Mozart) – New Production Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Ailyn Pérez (Donna Anna), Isabel Leonard (Donna Elvira), Hera Hyesang Park (Zerlina), Ben Bliss (Don Ottavio), 1:00 * HD Peter Mattei (Don Giovanni), Gerald Finley (Leporello), Alfred Walker (Masetto), Ryan Speedo Green (Commendatore) April 3 RUSALKA (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; Erin Morley (Olympia), Olga Kulchynska (Antonia/Stella), Veronica Simeoni (Giulietta), Tara Erraught (Nicklausse/Muse), Olesya Petrova (Antonia's Mother), Matthew Polenzani (Hoffmann), Luca Pisaroni (Four Villains) April 17 DEAD MAN WALKING (Heggie) – New Production/Met Premiere Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Latonia Moore (Sister Rose), Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen Prejean), Susan Graham (Mrs. Patrick De Rocher), 1:00 * HD Etienne Dupuis (Joseph De Rocher) April 24 DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN (R. Strauss) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Elza van den Heever (Empress), Nina Stemme (Dyer's Wife), Evelyn Herlitzius (Nurse), Klaus Florian Vogt (Emperor), 12:00 HD Michael Volle (Barak), Ryan Speedo Green (Messenger) May 1 ROBERTO DEVEREUX (Donizetti) Performance from Fall 2020 1:00 Maurizio Benini; Angela Meade (Elizabeth I), Jamie Barton (Sara), Stephen Costello (Roberto Devereux), Davide Luciano (Duke of Nottingham) May 8 NABUCCO (Verdi) Marco Armiliato; Anna Netrebko (Abigaille), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Fenena), Najmiddin Mavlyanov (Ismaele), George Gagnidze (Nabucco), 1:00 * HD Dmitry Belosselskiy (Zaccaria) May 15 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Wagner) Performance from Fall 2020 1:00 Hartmut Haenchen; Christine Goerke (Isolde), Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), Stuart Skelton (Tristan), Greer Grimsley (Kurwenal), Günther Groissböck (King Marke) May 22 IL PIRATA (Bellini) 1:00 * HD Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau (Imogene), Javier Camarena (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 BILLY BUDD (Britten) Simone Young; Matthew Polenzani (Captain Vere), Joshua Hopkins (Billy Budd), Matthew Rose (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