Most Saturday broadcasts begin on CPR Classical at 11:00 a.m. Met broadcast superfans: Watch the Met's website at the link below for your chance to vote for your favorite broadcast from the past as the Listeners' Choice returns for a second year the winner will air March 5, 2022.Įxplore the entire program from the Met Opera website, including a complete list of performers and broadcast times (in Eastern Time). Also, hear iconic voices from the Met's first decade on the air, February 5, 2022. The twenty-eight week season marks the Met's 90th radio broadcast anniversary on Christmas Day with extraordinary performances from the Met's archives of Verdi's Aida, which itself premiered Christmas Eve 150 years ago. Soprano Anna Netrebko also returns in her Met debut as Puccini's Turandot on May 7, 2022. Met Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts this first of seven productions he'll lead during the broadcast season. with “Eurydice” by 31-year-old Matthew Aucoin, a 2018 MacArthur Fellow who wrote most of the opera while artist in residence at the L.A. The first kicks-off the series on December 4, 11:00 a.m.

'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' is one of four Met premieres this broadcast season. but because it is itself, a masterpiece.' Listen Janufor the closing night performance, recorded October 23, 2021. OperaWire described it as 'a triumph not only because of what it represents in a larger social context. Film actress and director, Kasi Lemmons (Harriet) wrote the libretto, adapted from the memoir by journalist, Charles M. 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' (2019) is by renowned jazz and film composer Terrence Blanchard (Malcolm X, Harriet, Da 5 Bloods).

For the first time in its 138 year existence, the Met presents an opera by an African-American composer. This year marks a watershed moment in opera. The longest-running classical music program on-air, the Met Opera starts its 90th radio season with a new host, Debra Lew Harder, who just became the fifth announcer of the international radio series.

Saturday Metropolitan Opera broadcasts are back with the thrilling return to live performance and cherished archival recordings.

The metropolitan opera schedule