Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast 2023-2024 schedule
December 9 FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS (Daniel Catán) – New Production/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 THE MAGIC FLUTE (Mozart) – 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 TANNHÄUSER (Wagner) – Donald Runnicles; Andreas Schager (Tannhäuser), Elza van den Heever (Elisabeth), Ekaterina Gubanova (Venus), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram), Georg Zeppenfeld (Landgraf Hermann)
December 30 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart) – Honoring the centenaries of Cesare Siepi and Victoria de los Angeles with a performance from April 7, 1956 – Max Rudolf; Cesare Siepi (Figaro), Victoria de los Angeles (Countess Almaviva), Nadine Conner (Susanna), Frank Guarrera (Count Almaviva), Mildred Miller (Cherubino)
January 6 NABUCCO (Verdi) – Daniele Callegari; George Gagnidze (Nabucco), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Abigaille), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Zaccaria), SeokJong Baek (Ismaele), Maria Barakova (Fenena)
January 13 LA BOHÈME (Puccini) – 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 DEAD MAN WALKING (Jake Heggie) – Libretto by Terrence McNally – Based on the Book by Sister Helen Prejean – New Production/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 CARMEN (Bizet) – New Production – Daniele Rustioni; Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen), Piotr Beczała (Don José), Angel Blue (Micaëla), Kyle Ketelsen (Escamillo)
February 3 X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X (Anthony Davis) – Libretto by Thulani Davis – Story by Christopher Davis – New Production/Met Premiere – Network 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 – Romantic moments in memorable performances from the Met’s radio archives
February 17 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi) – 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 – Network Premiere – Mozart’s Requiem from February 24, 2023 and the finale of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 from March 14, 2022 – Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Golda Schultz, Emily D’Angelo, Dmytro Popov, Vladyslav Buialskyi / Elza van den Heever, Jamie Barton, Piotr Beczala, Ryan Speedo Green
March 2 Listeners’ Choice: Great Met Broadcasts – Opera TBA
March 9 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (Verdi) – New Production – 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 TURANDOT (Puccini) – Oksana Lyniv; Elena Pankratova (Turandot), SeokJong Baek (Calàf), Aleksandra Kurzak (Liù),Vitalij Kowaljow (Timur)
March 23 ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod) – Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Nadine Sierra (Juliette), Benjamin Bernheim (Roméo), Will Liverman (Mercutio), Alfred Walker (Frère Laurent), Samantha Hankey (Stéphano), Frederick Ballentine (Tybalt)
March 30 REQUIEM (Verdi) – Performance from September 27, 2023 – Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Leah Hawkins, Karen Cargill, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitry Belosselskiy
April 6 L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti) – Performance from April 6, 1974 – Max Rudolf; Luciano Pavarotti (Nemorino), Judith Blegen (Adina), John Reardon (Belcore), Ezio Flagello (Dr. Dulcamara)
April 13 DIE FLEDERMAUS (J. Strauss) – Celebrating the opera’s 150th anniversary with a 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 LA RONDINE (Puccini) – Speranza Scappucci; Angel Blue (Magda), Jonathan Tetelman (Ruggero), Emily Pogorelc (Lisette), Bekhzod Davronov (Prunier)
April 27 FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES (Terence Blanchard) – Libretto by Kasi Lemmons – Evan Rogister; Ryan Speedo Green (Charles), Latonia Moore (Billie), Brittany Renee (Destiny/Loneliness/Greta)
May 4 EL NIÑO (John Adams) – New Production/Met Premiere – Network 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 MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini) – Xian Zhang; Asmik Grigorian (Cio-Cio-San), Jonathan Tetelman (Pinkerton), Elizabeth DeShong (Suzuki), Lucas Meachem (Sharpless)
May 18 THE HOURS (Kevin Puts) – Libretto by Greg Pierce – 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 LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Puccini) Performance from October 27, 2018 Marco Armiliato; Eva-Maria Westbroek (Minnie), Jonas Kaufmann (Dick Johnson), Željko Lučić (Jack Rance), Carlo Bosi (Nick), Michael Todd Simpson (Sonora), Matthew Rose (Ashby), Oren Gradus (Jake Wallace)
June 1 CINDERELLA (Massenet) – Abridged English-language version by Kelley Rourke Performance from January 1, 2022 Emmanuel Villaume; Isabel Leonard (Cinderella), Emily D’Angelo (Prince Charming), Stephanie Blythe (Madame de la Haltière), Laurent Naouri (Pandolfe), Jessica Pratt (Fairy Godmother)
June 8 ORFEO ED EURIDICE (Gluck) – Christian Curnyn; Anthony Roth Costanzo (Orfeo), Ying Fang (Euridice), Elena Villalón (Amore)