Metropolitan Opera
Local presentation supported by Sarah and Ernest Butler.
About
Launched in 1931, the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical music program in radio history.
KMFA Broadcast Schedule:
December 4, 2021
Aucoin’s Eurydice – Network Broadcast Premiere
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Erin Morley (Eurydice), Joshua Hopkins (Orpheus), Jakub Józef Orliński (Orpheus's Double), Nathan Berg (Father), Barry Banks (Hades)
Interviews: Matthew Aucoin, Erin Morley, Nathan Berg, Joshua Hopkins, Jakub Józef Orliński, Peter Gelb, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Opera Page Read Playbill
December 11
Puccini’s Tosca
December 18
Mozart’s The Magic Flute
January 1
Massenet’s Cinderella
January 8
Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in my Bones
January 15
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
January 22
Puccini’s La Bohème
January 29
Verdi’s Rigoletto
February 5
The Met’s First Decade on the Air
February 12
Verdi’s Requiem
February 19
Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov
February 26
Celebrating Black History Month: Groundbreaking Artists on the Air
March 5
Listeners’ Choice: Great Met Broadcasts
March 12
R. Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos
March 19
Handel’s Rodelinda
March 26
Verdi’s Don Carlos
April 2
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
April 9
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
April 16
R. Strauss’s Elektra
April 23
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
April 30
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
May 7
Puccini’s Turandot
May 14
Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
May 21
Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
May 28
Glass’s Akhnaten
June 4
Dean’s Hamlet
June 11
Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress
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)