THE METROPOLITAN OPERA 2017-18 TOLL BROTHERS-METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK SEASON Date Opera On-Air Last Broadcast 2017 December 2 VERDI REQUIEM (Verdi) 12:00 2/20/1982 First SatMat James Levine; Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ferruccio Furlanetto December 9 THE MAGIC FLUTE (Mozart) – Abridged English-language version Evan Rogister; Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Pamina), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Charles Castronovo (Tamino), 12:00 2/28/2015 Nathan Gunn (Papageno), Alfred Walker (Speaker), Tobias Kehrer (Sarastro) December 16 NORMA (Bellini) – New Production 12:00 1/14/2012 Joseph Colaneri; Angela Meade (Norma), Jamie Barton (Adalgisa), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Matthew Rose (Oroveso) December 23 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart) 12:00 3/26/2016 Harry Bicket; Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Countess), Christiane Karg (Susanna), Serena Malfi (Cherubino), Luca Pisaroni (Count), Adam Plachetka (Figaro) December 30 THE MERRY WIDOW (Lehár) Ward Stare; Susan Graham (Hanna Glawari), Andriana Chuchman (Valencienne), Paul Groves (Danilo), 12:00 1/17/2015 Taylor Stayton (Camille de Rosillon), Thomas Allen (Baron Mirko Zeta) 2018 January 6 HANSEL AND GRETEL (Humperdinck) – English-language version 12:00 12/24/2016 Donald Runnicles; Lisette Oropesa (Gretel), Tara Erraught (Hansel), Dolora Zajick (Gertrude), Gerhard Siegel (The Witch), Quinn Kelsey (Peter) January 13 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni) / PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo) Nicola Luisotti; Ekaterina Semenchuk (Santuzza), Roberto Alagna (Turiddu), Željko Lučić (Alfio) / Aleksandra Kurzak (Nedda), Roberto Alagna (Canio), 12:00 2/6/2016 George Gagnidze (Tonio), Alessio Arduini (Silvio) January 20 THAÏS (Massenet) Performance from Fall 2017 12:00 12/20/2008 Emmanuel Villaume; Ailyn Pérez (Thaïs), Jean-François Borras (Nicias), Gerald Finley (Athanaël), David Pittsinger (Palémon) January 27 TOSCA (Puccini) – New Production 12:00 12/28/2013 HD** James Levine; Sonya Yoncheva (Tosca), Vittorio Grigolo (Cavaradossi), Bryn Terfel (Scarpia), Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan) February 3 IL TROVATORE (Verdi) James Levine; Maria Agresta (Leonora), Anita Rachvelishvili (Azucena), Yonghoon Lee (Manrico), Quinn Kelsey (di Luna), Štefan Kocán (Ferrando) 12:00 2/13/2016 February 10 L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Donizetti) Domingo Hindoyan; Pretty Yende (Adina), Matthew Polenzani (Nemorino), Davide Luciano (Belcore), 12:00 3/19/2016 HD** Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Dulcamara) February 17 PARSIFAL (Wagner) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Evelyn Herlitzius (Kundry), Klaus Florian Vogt (Parsifal), Peter Mattei (Amfortas), Evgeny Nikitin (Klingsor), René Pape 11:00 3/2/2013 (Gurnemanz) February 24 LA BOHÈME (Puccini) Marco Armiliato; Sonya Yoncheva (Mimì), Susanna Phillips (Musetta), Michael Fabiano (Rodolfo), Lucas Meachem (Marcello), Alexey Lavrov (Schaunard), 12:00 1/14/2017 HD** Matthew Rose (Colline), Paul Plishka (Benoit/Alcindoro) March 3 MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini) 12:00 4/2/2016 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 Speedo Green 12:00 1/16/1993 HD** (Oroe) March 17 ELEKTRA (R. Strauss) Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Christine Goerke (Elektra), Elza van den Heever (Chrysothemis), Michaela Schuster (Klytämnestra), Jay Hunter Morris (Aegisth), 12:00 4/30/2016 Mikhail Petrenko (Orest) March 24 TURANDOT (Puccini) 12:00 1/30/2016 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), 12:00 4/26/2014 HD** Adam Plachetka (Guglielmo), Christopher Maltman (Don Alfonso) April 7 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti) 12:00 3/28/2015 Roberto Abbado; Olga Peretyatko-Mariotti (Lucia), Vittorio Grigolo (Edgardo), Massimo Cavalletti (Enrico), Vitalij Kowaljow (Raimondo) April 14 LUISA MILLER (Verdi) HD** James Levine; Sonya Yoncheva (Luisa), Olesya Petrova (Federica), Piotr Beczala (Rodolfo), Plácido Domingo (Miller), 12:00 3/25/2006 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), 12:00 Network Premiere 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), 12:00 Network Premiere HD** Stephanie Blythe (Madame de la Haltière), Laurent Naouri (Pandolfe) May 5 ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod) 12:00 1/21/2017 Plácido Domingo; Ailyn Pérez (Juliette), Karine Deshayes (Stéphano), Bryan Hymel (Roméo), Joshua Hopkins (Mercutio), Kwangchul Youn (Frère Laurent).