THE Subject to change 2017-2018 Met Live Saturday Radio Broadcasts on WHRB as of 3/31/2017

On- Off- Date Opera Air Air 2017 December 2 VERDI REQUIEM (Verdi) 1:00 2:40 First SatMat ; Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ferruccio Furlanetto December 9 (Mozart) – Abridged English-language version ; Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Pamina), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Charles Castronovo (Tamino), 12:30 2:30 Nathan Gunn (Papageno), Alfred Walker (Speaker), Tobias Kehrer (Sarastro) December 16 (Bellini) – New Production 1:00 4:16 Joseph Colaneri; (Norma), Jamie Barton (Adalgisa), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Matthew Rose (Oroveso) December 23 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart) Harry Bicket; Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Countess), Christiane Karg (Susanna), Serena Malfi (Cherubino), Luca Pisaroni (Count), Adam 1:00 4:35 Plachetka (Figaro) December 30 THE MERRY WIDOW (Lehár) Ward Stare; Susan Graham (Hanna Glawari), Andriana Chuchman (Valencienne), Paul Groves (Danilo), 1:00 4:00 Taylor Stayton (Camille de Rosillon), Thomas Allen (Baron Mirko Zeta) 2018 January 6 HANSEL AND GRETEL (Humperdinck) – English-language version Donald Runnicles; Lisette Oropesa (Gretel), Tara Erraught (Hansel), Dolora Zajick (Gertrude), Gerhard Siegel (The Witch), Quinn Kelsey 1:00 3:27 (Peter) January 13 (Mascagni) / (Leoncavallo) ; Ekaterina Semenchuk (Santuzza), Roberto Alagna (Turiddu), Željko Lučić (Alfio) / Aleksandra Kurzak (Nedda), Roberto Alagna 12:30 3:50 (Canio), George Gagnidze (Tonio), Alessio Arduini (Silvio) January 20 THAÏS (Massenet) Performance from Fall 2017 1:00 4:15 Emmanuel Villaume; Ailyn Pérez (Thaïs), Jean-François Borras (Nicias), Gerald Finley (Athanaël), David Pittsinger (Palémon) January 27 (Puccini) – New Production HD** James Levine; Sonya Yoncheva (Tosca), Vittorio Grigolo (Cavaradossi), Bryn Terfel (Scarpia), Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan) 1:00 4:18

February 3 IL TROVATORE (Verdi) James Levine; Maria Agresta (Leonora), Anita Rachvelishvili (Azucena), Yonghoon Lee (Manrico), Quinn Kelsey (di Luna), Štefan Kocán 1:00 4:03 (Ferrando) February 10 L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Donizetti) Domingo Hindoyan; Pretty Yende (Adina), Matthew Polenzani (Nemorino), Davide Luciano (Belcore), HD** 12:00 2:59 Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Dulcamara) February 17 (Wagner) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Evelyn Herlitzius (Kundry), Klaus Florian Vogt (Parsifal), Peter Mattei (Amfortas), Evgeny Nikitin (Klingsor), René Pape 11:30 5:15 (Gurnemanz) February 24 LA BOHÈME (Puccini) Marco Armiliato; Sonya Yoncheva (Mimì), Susanna Phillips (Musetta), Michael Fabiano (Rodolfo), Lucas Meachem (Marcello), Alexey Lavrov 12:30 3:46 HD** (Schaunard), Matthew Rose (Colline), Paul Plishka (Benoit/Alcindoro) March 3 MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini) 1:00 4:26 Marco Armiliato; Ermonela Jaho (Cio-Cio-San), Maria Zifchak (Suzuki), Roberto Aronica (Pinkerton), Roberto Frontali (Sharpless) March 10 SEMIRAMIDE (Rossini) Maurizio Benini; Angela Meade (Semiramide), Elizabeth DeShong (Arsace), Javier Camarena (Idreno), Ildar Abdrazakov (Assur), Ryan 1:00 4:50 HD** Speedo Green (Oroe) March 17 ELEKTRA (R. Strauss) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Christine Goerke (Elektra), Elza van den Heever (Chrysothemis), Michaela Schuster (Klytämnestra), Jay Hunter Morris 1:00 3:00 (Aegisth), Mikhail Petrenko (Orest) March 24 TURANDOT (Puccini) 1:00 4:16 Marco Armiliato; Martina Serafin (Turandot), Guanqun Yu (Liù), Marcelo Álvarez (Calàf), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Timur) March 31 COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Mozart) – New Production David Robertson; Amanda Majeski (Fiordiligi), Serena Malfi (Dorabella), Kelli O'Hara (Despina), Ben Bliss (Ferrando), 1:00 4:56 HD** Adam Plachetka (Guglielmo), Christopher Maltman (Don Alfonso) April 7 (Donizetti) 12:30 4:10 Roberto Abbado; Olga Peretyatko (Lucia), Vittorio Grigolo (Edgardo), Massimo Cavalletti (Enrico), Vitalij Kowaljow (Raimondo) April 14 (Verdi) HD** James Levine; Sonya Yoncheva (Luisa), Olesya Petrova (Federica), Piotr Beczala (Rodolfo), Plácido Domingo (Miller), 12:30 4:28 Alexander Vinogradov (Walter), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Wurm) April 21 THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Adès) – New Production/Met Premiere Performance from November 18, 2017

Thomas Adès; Audrey Luna (Leticia Maynar), Amanda Echalaz (Lucia de Nobile), Sally Matthews (Silvia de Ávila), 1:00 3:42 Sophie Bevan (Beatriz), Alice Coote (Leonora Palma), Christine Rice (Blanca Delgado), Iestyn Davies (Francisco de Ávila), Joseph Kaiser (Edmundo de Nobile), Frédéric Antoun (Raúl Yebenes), David Portillo (Eduardo), David Adam Moore (Colonel Álvaro Gómez), Rod Gilfry (Alberto Roc), Kevin Burdette (Señor Russell), Christian Van Horn (Julio), John Tomlinson (Dr Carlos Conde)

April 28 CENDRILLON (Massenet) – New Production/Met Premiere Bertrand de Billy; Kathleen Kim (La Fée), Joyce DiDonato (Cendrillon), Alice Coote (Le Prince Charmant), 1:00 4:12 HD** Stephanie Blythe (Madame de la Haltière), Laurent Naouri (Pandolfe) May 5 ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod) Plácido Domingo; Ailyn Pérez (Juliette), Karine Deshayes (Stéphano), Bryan Hymel (Roméo), Joshua Hopkins (Mercutio), Kwangchul Youn 1:00 4:15 (Frère Laurent) ALL TIMES EASTERN ** HD transmission begins at 12:55 PM; Radio Broadcast begins at 1:00 PM