The Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical program in radio history. The 78th season of broadcasts kicks off on November 29 with Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, a new production by Robert Lepage starring Marcello Giordani and Susan Graham and conducted by Music Director James Levine. Twenty-two broadcasts will be presented on the Toll Brothers–Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network through April 25. Margaret Juntwait returns as the series’s host for her fifth season, joined by commentator Ira Siff.
Visit us regularly on the web for synopses, artist biographies, production photos, sound clips, background information, and teacher study guides for every opera in our broadcast season. Click here for the full 2008–09 broadcast schedule. If you would like to request a printed copy of the Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Guide, please click here.
The 2008–09 Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Season is sponsored by Toll Brothers, America’s luxury home builder®, with generous long-term support from The Annenberg Foundation and the Vincent A. Stabile Endowment for Broadcast Media, and through contributions from listeners worldwide.
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November 29, 2008 / 12:30 pm ET
James Levine;
Susan Graham,
Marcello Giordani,
John Relyea
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December 6, 2008 / 11:00 am ET
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December 13, 2008 / 12:30 pm ET
Seiji Ozawa;
Maria Guleghina,
Ekaterina Semenchuk,
Felicity Palmer,
Ben Heppner,
Mark Delavan,
Vladimir Stoyanov
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December 20, 2008 / 12:00 pm ET
Jesús López-Cobos;
Renée Fleming,
Michael Schade,
Thomas Hampson,
Alain Vernhes
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December 27, 2008 / 1:00 pm ET
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January 3, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
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January 10, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
Marco Armiliato;
Angela Gheorghiu,
Lisette Oropesa,
Roberto Alagna,
Marius Brenciu,
Samuel Ramey
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January 17, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
Alan Gilbert;
Sasha Cooke,
Meredith Arwady,
Gerald Finley,
Richard Paul Fink,
Eric Owens
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January 24, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
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January 31, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
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February 7, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
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February 14, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
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February 21, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
Marco Armiliato;
Maria Guleghina,
Olga Borodina,
Plácido Domingo,
Roberto Frontali
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February 28, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
Gianandrea Noseda;
Sondra Radvanovsky,
Dolora Zajick,
Marcelo Álvarez,
Dmitri Hvorostovsky,
Kwangchul Youn
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March 7, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
Patrick Summers;
Cristina Gallardo-Domâs,
Maria Zifchak,
Marcello Giordani,
Dwayne Croft
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March 14, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
Jiri Belohlávek;
Renée Fleming,
Christine Goerke,
Stephanie Blythe,
Aleksandrs Antonenko,
Kristinn Sigmundsson
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March 21, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
Evelino Pidò;
Natalie Dessay,
Juan Diego Flórez,
Michele Pertusi
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March 28, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
James Levine;
Wendy Bryn Harmer,
Yvonne Naef,
Jill Grove,
Kim Begley,
James Morris,
Richard Paul Fink,
Franz-Josef Selig,
John Tomlinson
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April 4, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
Maurizio Benini;
Angela Gheorghiu,
Rolando Villazón,
Franco Vassallo,
Bryn Terfel
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April 11, 2009 / 12:00 pm ET
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April 18, 2009 / 12:00 pm ET
James Levine;
Christine Brewer,
Jill Grove,
Christian Franz,
Gerhard Siegel,
James Morris
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April 25, 2009 / 12:00 pm ET
James Levine;
Christine Brewer,
Margaret Jane Wray,
Yvonne Naef,
Christian Franz,
Iain Paterson,
John Tomlinson
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