Metropolitan Opera

About

Launched in 1931, the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical music program in radio history. The 88^th season begins on December 1, 2018, with Boito's Mefistofele. Twenty-four broadcasts will be presented on KMFA through May 11, 2019. 

KMFA Broadcast Schedule:

Boito's Mefistofele
December 1, 2018 12:00 p.m. CT

Puccini's Il Trittico
December 8, 2018 12:00 p.m. CT

Verdi's La Traviata
December 15, 2018 12:00 p.m. CT

Puccini's La Fanciulla del West
December 22, 2018 12:00 p.m. CT

Mozart's The Magic Flute
December 29, 2018 12:00 p.m. CT

Verdi's Otello
January 5, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur
January 12, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande
January 19, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Muhly's Marnie
January 26, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Bizet's Carmen
February 2, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Tchaikovsky's Iolanta + Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
February 9, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Mozart's Don Giovanni
February 16, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Verdi's Rigoletto
February 23, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Donizetti's La fille du régiment
March 2, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Wagner's Das Rheingold
March 9, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Verdi's Falstaff
March 16, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila
March 23, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Wagner's Die Walküre
March 30, 2019 11:30 a.m. CT

Puccini's Tosca
April 6, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Wagner's Siegfried
April 13, 2019 11:30 a.m. CT

Mozart's La clemenza di Tito
April 20, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Wagner's Götterdämmerung
April 27, 2018 11:30 a.m. CT

Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles
May 4, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites
May 11, 2019 12:00 p.m. CT

The 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.

Time

Saturday 12:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)