Hear broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera, one of the world's leading opera companies, every Saturday on CPR Classical starting Dec. 3.
This year's radio schedule is full of operatic masterworks by Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Verdi, Beethoven and Wagner. You'll hear stellar performances from singers like Renee Fleming, Eric Owens, Susanna Phillips, Anna Netrebko and more.
The 2016-17 season runs through May 13. Check out the schedule for operas and start times:
| Date | Start time | Opera |
|---|---|---|
| Dec. 3 | 10:30 a.m. | Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" Anna Netrebko, Kristine Opolais, Marcelo Álvarez |
| Dec. 10 | 11 a.m. | Saariaho's "L'Amour de Loin" Eric Owens, Susanna Phillips |
| Dec. 17 | 11 a.m. | Richard Strauss' "Salome" Patricia Racette, Zeljko Lucic, Gerhard Siegel |
| Dec. 24 | 11 a.m. | Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel" |
| Dec. 31 | 11 a.m. | Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri" Marianna Pizzolato, René Barbera, Nicola Alaimo, Ildar Abdrazakov |
| Jan. 7 | 11 a.m. | Verdi's "Nabucco" Placido Domingo, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Jamie Barton, Dmitri Belosselskiy |
| Jan. 14 | 11 a.m. | Puccini’s "La Boheme" Ailyn Pérez, Kristine Opolais, Dmytro Popov, Piotr Beczala, Michael Fabiano, Susanna Phillips, David Bizic, Massimo Cavalletti |
| Jan. 21 | 11 a.m. | Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette" Diana Damrau, Vittorio Grigolo |
| Jan. 28 | 11 a.m. | Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" Peter Mattei, Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena |
| Feb. 4 | 11 a.m. | Verdi's "Rigoletto" Stephen Costello, Joseph Calleja, Olga Peretyatko, Zeljko Lucic |
| Feb. 11 | 11 a.m. | Bizet's "Carmen" Sophie Koch, Clémentine Margaine, Marcelo Álvarez, Maria Agresta |
| Feb. 18 | 11 a.m. | Bellini's "I Puritani" Diana Damrau, Javier Camarena, Alexey Markov, Luca Pisaroni |
| Feb. 25 | 11 a.m. | Dvorak's "Rusalka" Kristine Opolais, Mary Zimmerman, Brandon Jovanovich, Jamie Barton, Katarina Dalayman, Eric Owens |
| March 4 | 11 a.m. | Massenet's "Werther" Vittorio Grigolo, Isabel Leonard |
| March 11 | 11 a.m. | Verdi's "La Traviata" Sonya Yoncheva, Michael Fabiano, Thomas Hampson, Carmen Giannattasio, Plácido Domingo |
| March 18 | 11 a.m. | Rossini's "Guillaume Tell" Gerald Finley, Marina Rebeka, Bryan Hymel |
| March 25 | 11 a.m. | Mozart's "Idomeneo" Matthew Polenzani, Alice Coote, Nadine Sierra, Elza van den Heever |
| April 1 | 11 a.m. | Beethoven's "Fidelio" Adrianne Pieczonka, Klaus Florian Vogt, Greer Grimsley, Falk Struckmann |
| April 8 | 11 a.m. | Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" Nina Stemme, Stuart Skelton, Ekaterina Gubanova, René Pape |
| April 15 | 10:30 a.m. | Verdi's "Aida" Liudmyla Monastyrska, Latonia Moore, Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Gubanova, Violeta Urmana, Marco Berti |
| April 22 | 11 a.m. | Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Alexey Dolgov |
| April 29 | 11 a.m. | Wagner's "Die Fliegende Hollander" Michael Volle, Amber Wagner, Dolora Zajick, Ben Bliss, Franz-Josef Selig, Jay Hunter Morris |
| May 6 | 10:30 a.m. | Alfano's "Cyrano de Bergerac" Roberto Alagna, Patricia Racette |
| May 13 | 10:30 a.m. | Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" Renee Fleming, Elina Garanca, Gunther Groissbock |
