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Metropolitan Opera
Saturdays at 1 p.m. on Classical NEPM

The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts are every Saturday at 1 p.m. (except as otherwise listed).

December 9: Daniel Catán, Florencia En El Amazonas
MET Premiere
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Ailyn Pérez (Florencia), Gabriella Reyes (Rosalba), Mario Chang (Arcadio), Mattia Olivieri (Riolobo), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Paula), Michael Chioldi (Álvaro), Greer Grimsley (Captain)

December 16: Mozart, The Magic Flute
Patrick Furrer; Piotr Buszewski (Tamino), Janai Brugger (Pamina), Rolando Villazón (Papageno), Brindley Sherratt (Sarastro), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Brenton Ryan (Monostatos), Patrick Carfizzi (Speaker)

December 23: Wagner, TANNHÄUSER
Donald Runnicles; Andreas Schager (Tannhäuser), Elza van den Heever (Elisabeth), Ekaterina Gubanova (Venus), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram),
Georg Zeppenfeld (Landgraf Hermann)

December 30: Mozart, Le Nozze Di Figaro
Max Rudolf; Cesare Siepi (Figaro), Victoria de los Angeles (Countess Almaviva), Nadine Conner (Susanna), Frank Guarrera (Count Almaviva), Mildred Miller (Cherubino)

January 6: Verdi, Nabucco
Daniele Callegari; George Gagnidze (Nabucco), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Abigaille), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Zaccaria), SeokJong Baek (Ismaele), Maria Barakova (Fenena)

January 13: Puccini, LA BOHÈME
Marco Armiliato; Elena Stikhina (Mimì), Joseph Calleja (Rodolfo), Kristina Mkhitaryan (Musetta), Adam Plachetka (Marcello), Krzysztof Bączyk (Colline), Rodion Pogossov (Schaunard), Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro)

January 20: Jake Heggie, Liberto by Terrence McNally, Dead Man Walking
MET Premiere
(Performance from October 21, 2023)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen Prejean), Ryan McKinny (Joseph De Rocher), Susan Graham (Mrs. Patrick De Rocher), Latonia Moore (Sister Rose)

January 27: Bizet, Carmen
Daniele Rustioni; Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen), Piotr Beczała (Don José), Angel Blue (Micaëla), Kyle Ketelsen (Escamillo)

February 3: Anthony Davis, Libertto by Thulani Davis, X: The Life and Times of Malcom X
MET Premiere
(Performance from November 18, 2023)
Kazem Abdullah; Will Liverman (Malcolm), Victor Ryan Robertson (Elijah/Street), Leah Hawkins (Louise/Betty), Raehann Bryce-Davis (Ella), Michael Sumuel (Reginald)

February 10: Valentines from the MET: Great Love Duets
Archival Broadcast

February 17: Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera
(Performance from Fall 2023)
Carlo Rizzi; Charles Castronovo (Gustavo III), Elena Stikhina (Amelia), Quinn Kelsey (Count Anckarström), Nina Minasyan (Oscar), Olesya Petrova (Ulrica)

February 24: Mozart and Beethoven in Concert at the MET
Mozart's Requieum from February 24, 2023 & the finale of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 from March 14, 2022

March 2: Listener's Choice: Great MET Broadcasts

March 9: Verdi, La Forza Del Destino (12pm Broadcast)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Lise Davidsen (Leonora), Brian Jagde (Don Alvaro), Igor Golovatenko (Don Carlo di Vargas), Soloman Howard (Marquis of Calatrava/Padre Guardiano), TBA (Preziosilla), Patrick Carfizzi (Fra Melitone)

March 16: Puccini, Turandot
Oksana Lyniv; Elena Pankratova (Turandot), SeokJong Baek (Calàf), Aleksandra Kurzak (Liù),Vitalij Kowaljow (Timur)

March 23: Gounod, ROMÉO ET JULIETTE
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Nadine Sierra (Juliette), Benjamin Bernheim (Roméo), Will Liverman (Mercutio), Alfred Walker (Frère Laurent), Samantha Hankey (Stéphano), Frederick Ballentine (Tybalt)

March 30: Verdi, Requiem
(Performance from September 27, 2023)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Leah Hawkins, Karen Cargill, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitry Belosselskiy

April 6: Donizetti, L'Elsir D'Amore
(Performance from April 6, 1974)
Max Rudolf; Luciano Pavarotti (Nemorino), Judith Blegen (Adina), John Reardon (Belcore), Ezio Flagello (Dr. Dulcamara)

April 13: J. Strauss, Die Fledermaus
(Performance from December 27, 1986)
Jeffrey Tate; Kiri Te Kanawa (Rosalinde), Håkan Hagegård (Eisenstein), Judith Blegen (Adele), Tatiana Troyanos (Prince Orlofsky), David Rendall (Alfred),
Michael Devlin (Dr. Falke)

April 20: Puccini, La Ronidine
Speranza Scappucci; Angel Blue (Magda), Jonathan Tetelman (Ruggero), Emily Pogorelc (Lisette), Bekhzod Davronov (Prunier)

April 27: Terence Blanchard, Liberto by Kasi Lemmons, Fire Shut Up In My Bones
Evan Rogister; Ryan Speedo Green (Charles), Latonia Moore (Billie), Brittany Renee (Destiny/Loneliness/Greta)

May 4: John Adams, EL NIÑO
MET Premiere
Marin Alsop; Julia Bullock (Soprano), Daniela Mack (Mezzo-Soprano), Davóne Tines (Bass-Baritone), Key’mon W. Murrah (Countertenor), Siman Chung (Countertenor), Eric Jurenas (Countertenor)

May 11: Puccini, Madama Butterfly
Xian Zhang; Asmik Grigorian (Cio-Cio-San), Jonathan Tetelman (Pinkerton), Elizabeth DeShong (Suzuki), Lucas Meachem (Sharpless)

May 18: Kevin Puts, Libertto by Greg Pierce, The Hours
Kensho Watanabe; Renée Fleming (Clarissa Vaughan), Joyce DiDonato (Virginia Woolf), Kelli O’Hara (Laura Brown), Kyle Ketelsen (Richard), Sean Panikkar (Leonard Woolf), Brandon Cedel (Dan Brown), William Burden (Louis)

May 25: TBA
Archival Broadcast

June 1: TBA
Archival Broadcast

June 8: Gluck, Orfeo Ed Euridice
Christian Curnyn; Anthony Roth Costanzo (Orfeo), Ying Fang (Euridice), Elena Villalón (Amore)