The Metropolitan Opera's Saturday matinee broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical program in radio history. The 80th season of broadcasts kicks off on December 18 with Verdi’s Don Carlo, starring Yonghoon Lee, Marina Poplavskaya, Simon Keenlyside and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Twenty-two broadcasts will be presented on the Toll Brothers–Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network through May 14. Margaret Juntwait returns as the series’s host for her seventh 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 2010–11 broadcast schedule. If you would like to request a printed copy of the Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Guide, please click here.
The 2010–11 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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December 18, 2010 / 12:30 pm ET
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Archive BroadcastDecember 25, 2010 / 1:00 pm ET
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January 1, 2011 / 12:00 pm ET
Simon Rattle;
Magdalena Kožená,
Felicity Palmer,
Stéphane Degout,
Gerald Finley,
Willard White
Intermission Features
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La Fanciulla del WestJanuary 8, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
Nicola Luisotti;
Deborah Voigt,
Marcello Giordani,
Lucio Gallo
Intermission Features
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January 15, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
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January 22, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
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January 29, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
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February 5, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
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Nixon in ChinaFebruary 12, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
John Adams;
Kathleen Kim,
Janis Kelly,
Robert Brubaker,
Russell Braun,
James Maddalena,
Richard Paul Fink
Intermission Features
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February 19, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
James Levine;
Anna Netrebko,
Matthew Polenzani,
Mariusz Kwiecien,
John Del Carlo
Intermission Features
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February 26, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
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March 5, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
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March 12, 2011 / 12:00 pm ET
Valery Gergiev;
Ekaterina Semenchuk,
Aleksandrs Antonenko,
Oleg Balashov,
Evgeny Nikitin,
René Pape,
Mikhail Petrenko,
Vladimir Ognovenko
Intermission Features
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March 19, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
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March 26, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
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April 2, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
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Le Comte OryApril 9, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
Maurizio Benini;
Diana Damrau,
Joyce DiDonato,
Susanne Resmark,
Juan Diego Flórez,
Stéphane Degout,
Michele Pertusi
Intermission Features
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April 16, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
James Levine;
Waltraud Meier,
Stuart Skelton,
Gerhard Siegel,
Matthias Goerne,
Walter Fink
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CapriccioApril 23, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
Andrew Davis;
Renée Fleming,
Sarah Connolly,
Joseph Kaiser,
Russell Braun,
Morten Frank Larsen,
Peter Rose
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April 30, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
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May 7, 2011 / 1:00 pm ET
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May 14, 2011 / 12:00 pm ET
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