THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Subject to change 2018-19 TOLL BROTHERS-METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK SEASON as of 3/18/2019 On- Off- Delay Delay Last Date Opera INT Air Air start end Broadcast 2018 December 1 MEFISTOFELE (Boito) 1:00 4:45 2 2/19/2000 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), MaryAnn McCormick (Frugola), Marcelo Álvarez (Luigi), George Gagnidze (Michele), 12:30 4:30 2 1:00 5:00 12/12/2009 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 1:00 4:32 2 3/11/2017 HD** Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Diana Damrau (Violetta Valéry), Juan Diego Flórez (Alfredo Germont), Quinn Kelsey (Giorgio Germont) December 22 LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Puccini) Performance from October 27, 2018 1:00 4:15 2 1/8/2011 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 THE MAGIC FLUTE (Mozart) Harry Bicket; Erin Morley (Pamina), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Ben Bliss (Tamino), Brenton Ryan (Monostatos), Nathan Gunn (Papageno), 1:00 3:00 0 12/9/2017 Alfred Walker (Speaker), Morris Robinson (Sarastro) 2019 January 5 OTELLO (Verdi) Gustavo Dudamel; Sonya Yoncheva (Desdemona), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Emilia), Stuart Skelton (Otello), Alexey Dolgov (Cassio), Željko Lučić (Iago), 1:00 4:07 1 4/23/2016 James Morris (Lodovico) January 12 ADRIANA LECOUVREUR (Cilea) – New Production Gianandrea Noseda; Anna Netrebko (Adriana Lecouvreur), Anita Rachvelishvili (Principessa de Bouillon), Piotr Beczała (Maurizio), Carlo Bosi (The 1:00 4:58 2 2/21/2009 HD** Abbé), Ambrogio Maestri (Michonnet), Maurizio Muraro (Prince de Bouillon) January 19 PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (Debussy) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Isabel Leonard (Mélisande), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Geneviève), Paul Appleby (Pelléas), Kyle Ketelsen (Golaud), 12:30 4:35 2 1:00 5:00 1/1/2011 Ferruccio Furlanetto (Arkel) January 26 MARNIE (Muhly) – New Production/Met Premiere Network Performance from November 10, 2018 1:00 4:00 1 Robert Spano; Isabel Leonard (Marnie), Janis Kelly (Mrs. Rutland), Denyce Graves (Marnie's mother), Iestyn Davies (Terry Rutland), Premiere Christopher Maltman (Mark Rutland) February 2 CARMEN (Bizet) 1:00 4:41 1 2/11/2017 HD** Louis Langrée; Aleksandra Kurzak (Micaëla), Clémentine Margaine (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Alexander Vinogradov (Escamillo) February 9 IOLANTA (Tchaikovsky) / BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (Bartók) Henrik Nánási; Sonya Yoncheva (Iolanta), Matthew Polenzani (Count Gottfried Vaudémont), Alexey Markov (Robert, Duke of Burgundy), 12:30 4:06 1 1:00 4:36 2/14/2015 Elchin Azizov (Ibn-Hakia), Vitalij Kowaljow (René, King of Provence); Angela Denoke (Judith), Gerald Finley (Bluebeard) February 16 DON GIOVANNI (Mozart) Cornelius Meister; Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Donna Anna), Federica Lombardi (Donna Elvira), Aida Garifullina (Zerlina), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Don 1:00 4:40 1 2/21/2015 Ottavio), Luca Pisaroni (Don Giovanni), Ildar Abdrazakov (Leporello), Brandon Cedel (Masetto), Štefan Kocán (The Commendatore) February 23 RIGOLETTO (Verdi) Nicola Luisotti; Nadine Sierra (Gilda), Ramona Zaharia (Maddalena), Vittorio Grigolo (Duke of Mantua), Roberto Frontali (Rigoletto), 1:00 4:25 2 2/4/2017 Štefan Kocán (Sparafucile) March 2 LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Donizetti) 1:00 3:55 1 12/24/2011 HD** Enrique Mazzola; Pretty Yende (Marie), Stephanie Blythe (Marquise of Berkenfield), Javier Camarena (Tonio), Maurizio Muraro (Sulpice) March 9 DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner) Philippe Jordan; Wendy Bryn Harmer (Freia), Jamie Barton (Fricka), Karen Cargill (Erda), Norbert Ernst (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), 1:00 3:45 0 4/6/2013 Greer Grimsley (Wotan), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Günther Groissböck (Fasolt), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Fafner) March 16 FALSTAFF (Verdi) Richard Farnes; Golda Schultz (Nannetta), Ailyn Pérez (Alice Ford), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Meg Page), 1:00 3:50 1 12/14/2013 Francesco Demuro (Fenton), Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Juan Jesús Rodríguez (Ford) March 23 SAMSON ET DALILA (Saint-Saëns) – New Production Sir Mark Elder; Anita Rachvelishvili (Dalila), Gregory Kunde (Samson), Laurent Naouri (High Priest), Tomasz Konieczny (Abimélech), 1:00 4:15 2 2/25/2006 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), 12:00 5:20 2 12:30 5:50 4/13/2013 HD Greer Grimsley (Wotan), Günther Groissböck (Hunding) April 6 TOSCA (Puccini) 1:00 4:05 2 1/27/2018 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), Michael 11:30 4:50 2 12:00 5:20 4/20/2013 Volle (Wanderer), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Fafner) April 20 LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Mozart) Lothar Koenigs; Ying Fang (Servilia), Elza van den Heever (Vitellia), Joyce DiDonato (Sesto), Emiily D'Angelo (Annio), Matthew Polenzani (Tito), 1:00 4:05 1 5/7/2005 Christian Van Horn (Publio) April 27 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Wagner) Philippe Jordan; Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde), Edith Haller (Gutrune), Michaela Schuster (Waltraute), Andreas Schager (Siegfried), 11:00 4:45 2 12:00 5:45 5/11/2013 Evgeny Nikitin (Gunther), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Eric Owens (Hagen) May 4 AIDA (Verdi) Performance from October 6, 2018 1:00 4:00 2 4/15/2017 Nicola Luisotti; Anna Netrebko (Aida), Anita Rachvelishvili (Amneris), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Radamès), Quinn Kelsey (Amonasro), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Ramfis), Ryan Speedo Green (The King) 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 3:29 1 1:00 4:29 5/4/2013 HD Karita Mattila (First Prioress), David Portillo (Chevalier de la Force), Jean-François Lapointe (Marquis de la Force) ALL TIMES EASTERN ** HD transmission begins at 12:55 PM; Radio Broadcast begins at 1:00 PM.