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THE METROPOLITAN Subject to change 2018-19 TOLL BROTHERS- INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK SEASON as of 5/21/2018

Date Opera RRR On-Air Time

2018 December 1 MEFISTOFELE (Boito) 12:00 Noon First SatMat Joseph Colaneri; Angela Meade (Margherita), Jennifer Check (Elena), Michael Fabiano (Faust), Christian Van Horn (Mefistofele) December 8 IL TRITTICO (Puccini) Bertrand de Billy; Amber Wagner (Giorgetta), Stephanie Blythe (Frugola), Marcelo Álvarez (Luigi), George Gagnidze (Michele), 12:00 Noon Maurizio Muraro (Talpa); Kristine Opolais (Suor Angelica), Maureen McKay (Sister Genovieffa), Stephanie Blythe (La Principessa); Kristina Mkhitaryan (Lauretta), Stephanie Blythe (Zita), Atalla Ayan (Rinuccio), Plácido Domingo (Gianni Schicchi), Maurizio Muraro (Simone) December 15 LA TRAVIATA (Verdi) – New Production 12:00 Noon HD** Yannick Nézet-Séguin; (Violetta Valéry), Juan Diego Flórez (Alfredo Germont), Quinn Kelsey (Giorgio Germont) December 22 LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Puccini) Performance from October 27, 2018 12:00 Noon Marco Armiliato; Eva-Maria Westbroek (Minnie), Jonas Kaufmann (Dick Johnson), Carlo Bosi (Nick), Željko Lučić (Jack Rance), Michael Todd Simpson (Sonora), Matthew Rose (Ashby), Oren Gradus (Jake Wallace) December 29 (Mozart) Harry Bicket; Erin Morley (Pamina), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Ben Bliss (Tamino), Brenton Ryan (Monostatos), Nathan Gunn (Papageno), 12:00 Noon Alfred Walker (Speaker), Morris Robinson (Sarastro) 2019 January 5 (Verdi) Gustavo Dudamel; Sonya Yoncheva (Desdemona), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Emilia), Stuart Skelton (Otello), Alexey Dolgov (Cassio), Željko Lučić (Iago), 12:00 Noon James Morris (Lodovico) January 12 ADRIANA LECOUVREUR (Cilea) – New Production Gianandrea Noseda; (Adriana Lecouvreur), Anita Rachvelishvili (Principessa de Bouillon), Piotr Beczała (Maurizio), Carlo Bosi (The Abbé), Ambrogio Maestri 12:00 Noon HD** (Michonnet), Maurizio Muraro (Prince de Bouillon) January 19 PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (Debussy) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; (Mélisande), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Geneviève), Paul Appleby (Pelléas), Kyle Ketelsen (Golaud), 12:00 Noon Ferruccio Furlanetto (Arkel) January 26 MARNIE (Muhly) – New Production/Met Premiere Performance from November 10, 2018 12:00 Noon Robert Spano; Isabel Leonard (Marnie), Janis Kelly (Mrs. Rutland), Denyce Graves (Marnie's mother), Iestyn Davies (Terry Rutland), Christopher Maltman (Mark Rutland) February 2 (Bizet) 12:00 Noon HD** Louis Langrée; (Micaëla), Clémentine Margaine (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Alexander Vinogradov (Escamillo) February 9 (Tchaikovsky) / BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (Bartók) Henrik Nánási; Sonya Yoncheva (Iolanta), Matthew Polenzani (Count Gottfried Vaudémont), Alexey Markov (Robert, Duke of Burgundy), 12:00 Noon Elchin Azizov (Ibn-Hakia), Vitalij Kowaljow (René, King of Provence); Angela Denoke (Judith), Gerald Finley (Bluebeard) February 16 (Mozart) Cornelius Meister; Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Donna Anna), Federica Lombardi (Donna Elvira), Garifullina (Zerlina), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Don Ottavio), Luca Pisaroni (Don 12:00 Noon Giovanni), Ildar Abdrazakov (Leporello), Brandon Cedel (Masetto), Štefan Kocán (The Commendatore) February 23 (Verdi) ; Nadine Sierra (Gilda), Ramona Zaharia (Maddalena), Vittorio Grigolo (Duke of Mantua), Roberto Frontali (Rigoletto), 12:00 Noon Štefan Kocán (Sparafucile) March 2 LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Donizetti) 12:00 Noon HD** Enrique Mazzola; Pretty Yende (Marie), Stephanie Blythe (Marquise of Berkenfield), Javier Camarena (Tonio), Maurizio Muraro (Sulpice) March 9 (Wagner) Philippe Jordan; Wendy Bryn Harmer (Freia), Jamie Barton (Fricka), Karen Cargill (Erda), Norbert Ernst (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), 12:00 Noon Greer Grimsley (Wotan), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Günther Groissböck (Fasolt), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Fafner) March 16 (Verdi) Richard Farnes; Golda Schultz (Nannetta), Ailyn Pérez (Alice Ford), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Meg Page), 12:00 Noon Francesco Demuro (Fenton), Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Juan Jesús Rodríguez (Ford) March 23 SAMSON ET DALILA (Saint-Saëns) – New Production Mark Elder; Anita Rachvelishvili (Dalila), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Samson), Laurent Naouri (High Priest), Tomasz Konieczny (Abimélech), 12:00 Noon Günther Groissböck (The Old Hebrew) March 30 DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner) Philippe Jordan; Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Jamie Barton (Fricka), Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), 11:30 A.M. HD Greer Grimsley (Wotan), Günther Groissböck (Hunding) April 6 (Puccini) 12:00 Noon Carlo Rizzi; Jennifer Rowley (Tosca), Joseph Calleja (Cavaradossi), Wolfgang Koch (Scarpia), Philip Cokorinos (Sacristan) April 13 SIEGFRIED (Wagner) Philippe Jordan; Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde), Erin Morley (Woodbird), Karen Cargill (Erda), Stefan Vinke (Siegfried), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), 11:30 A.M. Michael Volle (Wanderer), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Fafner) April 20 (Mozart) Lothar Koenigs; Ying Fang (Servilia), Elza van den Heever (Vitellia), Joyce DiDonato (Sesto), Paula Murrihy (Annio), Matthew Polenzani (Tito), 12:00 Noon Christian Van Horn (Publio) April 27 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Wagner) Philippe Jordan; Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde), Edith Haller (Gutrune), Sarah Connolly (Waltraute), Andreas Schager (Siegfried), 11:00 A.M. Evgeny Nikitin (Gunther), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Eric Owens (Hagen) May 4 LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES (Bizet) Performance from Fall 2018 12:00 Noon Emmanuel Villaume; Pretty Yende (Leïla), Javier Camarena (Nadir), Mariusz Kwiecien (Zurga), Nicolas Testé (Nourabad) May 11 DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES (Poulenc) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Isabel Leonard (Blanche de la Force), Adrianne Pieczonka (Mme Lidoine), Erin Morley (Constance), Karen Cargill (Mère Marie), 12:00 Noon HD Karita Mattila (First Prioress), David Portillo (Chevalier de la Force), Dwayne Croft (Marquis de la Force) ALL TIMES EASTERN ** HD transmission begins at 12:55 PM; Radio Broadcast begins at 1:00 PM