Naturally, the new season's live broadcasts begin with tonight's season opener, Lucia di Lammermoor. The SIRIUS broadcast schedule features live, opening night premiere broadcasts of six of the Met's seven new productions in 2007-08: Gluck's Iphig_nie en Tauride on Tuesday, November 27, conducted by Louis Langr_e and starring Susan Graham and Plšcido Domingo; Verdi's Macbeth on Monday, October 22, conducted by James Levine and starring Zeljko Lucic and Maria Guleghina; Britten's Peter Grimes on Wednesday, February 28, conducted by Donald Runnicles and featuring Anthony Dean Griffey and Patricia Racette; the Met premiere of Philip Glass's Satyagraha on Wednesday, April 11, conducted by Dante Anzolini and starring Richard Croft; and Donizetti's La Fille du R_giment on Saturday, April 21, conducted by Marco Armiliato and starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Fl‹rez. A new English-language production of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel conducted by Vladimir Jurowski will air for the first time on Saturday, December 29.
The new Met-SIRIUS broadcast schedule will also feature re-mastered historic broadcasts and notable performances from recent seasons. New to the channel this season is The Met on Record, a weekly program that will feature Metropolitan Opera commercial recordings from the 1940s through the present day. The Met on Record airs every Sunday at 9 p.m., beginning September 30.
Margaret Juntwait, host of the Toll Brothers Metropolitan Opera Saturday broadcasts on terrestrial radio, returns as announcer for the SIRIUS Met channel.
A full schedule of the 2007-08 Metropolitan Opera Radio on SIRIUS Satellite Radio follows below. For more information, visit www.metopera.org and www.sirius.com.
Live SIRIUS Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Schedule for the 2007-08 Season
SEPTEMBER
- Mon 9/24 6:30 pm
Opening Night Gala, New Production Premiere
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Levine; Dessay, Giordani, Kwiecien, Relyea - 9/25 Tue 8:00 pm
Gounod: Rom_o et Juliette
Domingo; Netrebko, Leonard, Alagna, Degout, Sigmundsson - 9/27 Thurs 8:00 pm
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Levine; Dessay, Giordani, Kwiecien, Relyea
OCTOBER
- 10/2 Tue 8:00 pm
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Jordan; Hong, Bayrakdarian, Vondung, Pertusi, Schrott
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10/3 Wed 7:30 pm
Gounod: Rom_o et Juliette
Domingo; Netrebko, Leonard, Kaiser, Degout, Sigmundsson -
10/4 Thurs 8:00 pm
Verdi : Aida
Ono; Brown, Zajick, Berti, Dobber, Colombara, Kavrakos -
10/5 Fri 8:00 pm
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Bachman; Dessay, Giordani, Kwiecien, Relyea -
10/8 Mon 8:00 pm
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Elder; Racette, Zifchak, Alagna, Salsi -
10/10 Wed 8:00 pm
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Jordan; Hong, Bayrakdarian, Vondung, Pertusi, Schrott -
10/11 Thur 8:00 pm
Gounod: Rom_o et Juliette
Domingo; Netrebko, Leonard, Kaiser, Degout, Sigmundsson -
10/12 Fri 8:00 pm
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Elder; Racette, Zifchak, Alagna, Salsi -
10/16 Tues 8:00 pm
Verdi : Aida
Ono; Brown, Zajick, Berti, Dobber, Kowaljow, Hagen -
10/17 Wed 8:00 pm
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Levine; Massis, Giordani, Kwiecien, Relyea -
10/18 Thur 8:00 pm
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Jordan; Hong, Bayrakdarian, Vondung, Pertusi, Schrott -
10/19 Fri 8:00 pm
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Elder; Racette, Zifchak, Alagna, Salsi -
10/22 Mon 8:00 pm
New Production Premiere
Verdi: Macbeth
Levine; Guleghina, Pittas, Lucic, Relyea -
10/24 Wed 8:00 pm
Verdi : Aida
Ono; Carosi, Borodina, Berti, Pons, Kowaljow, Kavrakos -
10/25 Thur 8:00 pm
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Levine; Massis, Costello, Kwiecien, Relyea -
10/26 Fri 8:00 pm
Verdi: Macbeth
Levine; Guleghina, Pittas, Lucic, Relyea -
10/29 Mon 8:00 pm
Mozart: Die Zauberfl‹te
Petrenko; Damrau, Kaappola, Cutler, Degout, Schulte, Hagen -
10/31 Wed 8:00 pm
Verdi: Macbeth
Levine; Guleghina, Pittas, Lucic, Relyea
NOVEMBER
- 11/1 Thur 8:00 pm
Mozart: Die Zauberfl‹te
Petrenko; Damrau, Kaappola, Cutler, Degout, Schulte, Hagen -
11/2 Fri 7:30 pm
Verdi : Aida
Ono; Brown, Borodina, Berti, Delavan, Kowaljow, Kavrakos -
11/6 Tue 8:00 pm
Mozart: Die Zauberfl‹te
Petrenko; Damrau, Kaappola, Cutler, Degout, Schulte, Hagen -
11/7 Wed 8:00 pm
Verdi: La traviata
Armiliato; Fleming, Polenzani, D. Croft -
11/8 Thur 8:00 pm
Verdi : Aida
Ono; Brown, D'Intino, Berti, Delavan, Kowaljow, Hagen -
11/12 Mon 8:00 pm
Bellini: Norma
Benini; Papian, Zajick, Farina, Kowaljow
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11/13 Tues 8:00 pm
Mozart: Die Zauberfl‹te
Petrenko; Damrau, Kaappola, Kaiser, Degout, Schulte, Hagen -
11/14 Wed 8:00 pm
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Jordan; Harteros, Siurina, Lindsey, Keenlyside, Terfel -
11/15 Thur 8:00 pm
Verdi: La traviata
Armiliato; Fleming, Polenzani, D. Croft -
11/19 Mon 8:00 pm
Bellini: Norma
Benini; Papian, Zajick, Farina, Kowaljow -
11/20 Tues 8:00 pm
Mozart: Die Zauberfl‹te
Petrenko; K‹hmeier, Damrau, Kaiser, Degout, Schulte, Hagen -
11/21 Wed 8:00 pm
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Jordan; Harteros, Siurina, Lindsey, Keenlyside, Terfel -
11/26 Mon 7:30 pm
Bellini: Norma
Benini; Guleghina, Zajick, Farina, Kowaljow -
11/27 Tues 8:00 pm
New Production Premiere
Gluck: Iphig_nie en Tauride
Langr_e; Graham, Domingo, Groves, Shimell -
11/28 Wed 8:00 pm
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Jordan; Harteros, Siurina, Lindsey, Keenlyside, Terfel -
11/30 Fri 8:00 pm
Bellini: Norma
Benini; Guleghina, Zajick, Farina, Tian
DECEMBER
- 12/4 Tues 8:00 pm
Bellini: Norma
Benini; Guleghina, Zajick, Farina, Kowaljow -
12/5 Wed 8:00 pm
Gluck: Iphig_nie en Tauride
Langr_e; Graham, Domingo, Groves, Shimell -
12/8 Sat 1:30 pm
Gluck: Iphig_nie en Tauride
Langr_e; Graham, Domingo, Groves, Shimell -
12/10 Mon 7:30 pm
Prokofiev: War and Peace
Gergiev; Mataeva, Semenchuk, Shevchenko, Begley, Ladyuk, Gerello, Ramey -
12/11 Tue 8:00 pm
Gluck: Iphig_nie en Tauride
Langr_e; Graham, Domingo, Groves, Shimell -
12/12 Wed 8:00 pm
Gounod: Rom_o et Juliette
Domingo; Netrebko, Leonard, TBA, Gunn, Lloyd -
12/15 Sat 1:00 pm
Gounod: Rom_o et Juliette
Domingo; Netrebko, Leonard, TBA, Gunn, Lloyd -
12/17 Mon 8:00 pm
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Noseda; Crider, Sala, Blythe, Licitra, Hvorostovsky -
12/19 Wed 8:00 pm
Gluck: Iphig_nie en Tauride
Langr_e; Graham, Domingo, Groves, Shimell -
12/20 Thurs 8:00 pm
Gounod: Rom_o et Juliette
Domingo; Netrebko, Lindsey, TBA, Gunn, Lloyd -
12/22 Sat 12:30 pm
Prokofiev: War and Peace
Gergiev; Poplavskaya, Semenchuk, Shevchenko, Begley, Markov, Gerello, Ramey -
12/26 Wed 7:30 pm
Prokofiev: War and Peace
Gergiev; Poplavskaya, Semenchuk, Shevchenko, Begley, Markov, Gerello, Ramey -
12/27 Thurs 7:30 pm
Gounod: Rom_o et Juliette
Nadler; Netrebko, Lindsey, Polenzani, Gunn, Lloyd -
12/29 Sat 1:30 pm
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Jurowski; Sch‹fer, Coote, Plowright, Langridge, Held
JANUARY
- 12/31 Mon 7:00 pm
Gounod: Rom_o et Juliette
Nadler; Netrebko, Leonard, Polenzani, Gunn, Lloyd -
1/ 1 Tues 1:00 pm
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Jurowski; Sch‹fer, Coote, Plowright, Langridge, Held -
1/ 3 Thurs 7:30 pm
Prokofiev: War and Peace
Noseda; Mataeva, Semenchuk , Shevchenko, Begley, Ladyuk, TBA, Ramey -
1/5 Sat 1:30 pm
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Noseda; Crider, Sala, Blythe, Licitra, Hvorostovsky -
1/7 Mon 6:30 pm
Wagner: Die Walk‹re
Maazel ; Gasteen, Pieczonka, Blythe, Forbis, Morris, Petrenko -
1/8 Tues 8:00 pm
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Jurowski; Sch‹fer, Coote, Plowright, Langridge, Held -
1/9 Wed 8:00 pm
Verdi: Macbeth
Levine; Guleghina, Aronica, Ataneli, Relyea -
1/12 Sat 1:30 pm
Verdi: Macbeth
Levine; Guleghina, Aronica, Ataneli, Relyea -
1/14 Mon 6:30 pm
Wagner: Die Walk‹re
Maazel; Gasteen, Pieczonka, Blythe, Forbis, Morris, Petrenko -
1/15 Tue 8:00 pm
Verdi: Macbeth
Levine; Gruber, Pittas, Ataneli, Relyea -
1/19 Sat 1:30 pm
Archive Presentation
Puccini: La Bohêëme
Levine; Scotto, Pavarotti, Niska, Wixell, Monk, Plishka, Tajo -
1/22 Tue 8:00 pm
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Chaslin; Garanca, Schade, Vassallo, Pratic‹, Rose -
1/23 Wed 8:00 pm
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Jurowski; Sch‹fer, Coote, Plowright, Langridge, Held -
1/26 Sat 1:30 pm
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Chaslin; Garanca, Schade, Vassallo, Pratic‹, Rose -
1/29 Tues 8:00 pm
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Levine; Mattila, Giordani, D. Croft, Travis -
1/30 Wed 8:00 pm
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Chaslin; Garanca, Schade, Vassallo, Pratic‹, Rose -
1/31 Thurs 8:00 pm
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Jackson; Sch‹fer, Coote, Plowright, Langridge, Hancock
FEBRUARY
- 2/2 Sat 12:30 pm
Wagner: Die Walk‹re
Maazel; Gasteen, Voigt, DeYoung, Forbis, Morris, Petrenko -
2/4 Mon 8:00 pm
Bizet: Carmen
Villaume; Kovalevska, Borodina, êlvarez, Gallo -
2/5 Tues 7:30 pm
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Levine; Mattila, Giordani, D. Croft, Travis -
2/7 Thurs 6:30 pm
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Chaslin; Garanca, Zapata, Vassallo, Muraro, Raimondi -
2/9 Sat 1:30 pm
Archive Presentation
Rossini: The Siege of Corinth
Schippers; Sills, Verrett, D‹az -
2/11 Mon 8:00 pm
Verdi: Otello
Bychkov; Fleming, Botha, Guelfi -
2/13 Wed 8:00 pm
Bizet: Carmen
Villaume; Kovalevska, Borodina, êlvarez, Gallo -
2/14 Thurs 8:00 pm
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Chaslin; Garanca, Zapata, Vassallo, Muraro, Raimondi -
2/16 Sat 1:00 pm
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Levine; Mattila, Giordani, D. Croft, Travis -
2/18 Mon 8:00 pm
Verdi: Otello
Bychkov; Fleming, Botha, Guelfi -
2/20 Wed 8:00 pm
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Runnicles; Mattila, Giordani, D. Croft, Travis -
2/21 Thurs 8:00 pm
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Chaslin; Garanca, Schade, Vassallo, Muraro, Raimondi -
2/23 Sat 1:30 pm
Bizet: Carmen
Villaume; Stoyanova, Borodina, êlvarez, Gallo -
2/25 Mon 8:00 pm
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Chaslin; Garanca, Schade, Vassallo, Muraro, Raimondi -
2/27 Wed 8:00 pm
Bizet: Carmen
Villaume; Stoyanova, Herrera, êlvarez, Gallo -
2/28 Thurs 7:30 pm
New Production Premiere
Britten: Peter Grimes
Runnicles; Racette, Griffey, Michaels-Moore
MARCH
- 3/1 Sat 1:00 pm
Verdi: Otello
Bychkov; Fleming, Botha, Guelfi -
3/3 Mon 8:00 pm
Britten: Peter Grimes
Runnicles; Racette, Griffey, Michaels-Moore -
3/4 Tue 8:00 pm
Verdi: Otello
Bychkov; Fleming, Botha, Guelfi -
3/6 Thurs 8:00 pm
Verdi: La traviata
Armiliato; Swenson, Polenzani, D. Croft -
3/8 Sat 1:30 pm
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Levine; Dessay, Filianoti, Kwiecien, Relyea -
3/10 Mon 7:00 pm
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Levine; Voigt, DeYoung, Heppner, Schulte, Salminen -
3/12 Wed 8 :00 pm
Verdi: La traviata
Armiliato; Swenson, Kaufmann, D. Croft -
3/13 Thurs 8:00 pm
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Colaneri; Dessay, Filianoti, Kwiecien, Relyea -
3/15 Sat 1:30 pm
Britten: Peter Grimes
Runnicles; Racette, Griffey, Michaels-Moore -
3/17 Mon 8:00 pm
Verdi: Ernani
Abbado; Radvanovsky, Giordani, Hampson, Furlanetto -
3/19 Wed 7:30 pm
Verdi: La traviata
Armiliato; Swenson, Polenzani, D. Croft -
3/21 Fri 8:00 pm
Verdi: Ernani
Abbado; Radvanovsky, Giordani, Hampson, Furlanetto -
3/22 Sat 12:30 pm
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Levine; Voigt, DeYoung, Heppner, Schulte, Salminen -
3/24 Mon 8:00 pm
Britten: Peter Grimes
Runnicles; Racette, Griffey, Michaels-Moore -
3/25 Tue 7:00 pm
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Levine; Voigt, DeYoung, Heppner, Fink, Salminen -
3/27 Thu 8:00 pm
Prokofiev: The Gambler
Gergiev; Guryakova, Savova, Diadkova, Galouzine, Gassiev, Hancock, Aleksashkin -
3/29 Sat 1:30 pm
Verdi: Ernani
Abbado; Radvanovsky, Giordani, Hampson, Furlanetto -
3/31 Mon 8:00 pm
Prokofiev: The Gambler
Gergiev; Guryakova, Savova, Diadkova, Galouzine, Gassiev, Hancock, Aleksashkin
APRIL
- 4/1 Tue 7:30 pm
Puccini: La Bohêëme
Luisotti; Gheorghiu, Arteta, Vargas, T_zier, Kelsey, Gradus, Plishka -
4/2 Wed 7:30 pm
Verdi: Ernani
Abbado; Radvanovsky, Giordani, Hampson, Furlanetto -
4/5 Sat 1:30 pm
Puccini: La Bohêëme
Luisotti; Gheorghiu, Arteta, Vargas, T_zier, Kelsey, Gradus, Plishka -
4/9 Wed 7:30 pm
Puccini: La Bohêëme
Luisotti; Gheorghiu, Arteta, Vargas, T_zier, Kelsey, Gradus, Plishka -
4/10 Thu 7:30 pm
Verdi: Ernani
Abbado; Radvanovsky, Giordani, Hampson, Furlanetto -
4/11 Fri 8:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera Premiere
Glass: Satyagraha
Anzolini; Durkin, R. Croft, Patriarco, Walker -
4/12 Sat 1:30 pm
Prokofiev: The Gambler
Gergiev; Guryakova, Savova, Diadkova, Galouzine, Gassiev, Hancock, Aleksashkin -
4/14 Mon 8:00 pm
Glass: Satyagraha
Anzolini; Durkin, R. Croft, Patriarco, Walker -
4/15 Tue 7:30 pm
Puccini: La Bohêëme
Luisotti; Gheorghiu, Arteta, Vargas, T_zier, Kelsey, Gradus, Plishka -
4/16 Wed 8:00 pm
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Noseda; Brown, Sala, Blythe, Licitra, Hvorostovsky -
4/19 Sat 1 :30 pm
Glass: Satyagraha
Anzolini; Durkin, R. Croft, Patriarco, Walker -
4/21 Mon 8 :00 pm
New Production Premiere
Donizetti: La Fille du R_giment
Armiliato; Dessay, Palmer, Fl‹rez, Corbelli, Caldwell -
4/22 Tue 8:00 pm
Glass: Satyagraha
Anzolini; Durkin, R. Croft, Patriarco, Walker -
4/23 Wed 7 :30 pm
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Noseda; Brown, Sala, Blythe, Licitra, Hvorostovsky -
4/26 Sat 1:30 pm
Donizetti: La Fille du R_giment
Armiliato; Dessay, Palmer, Fl‹rez, Corbelli, Caldwell -
4/29 Tue 7 :30 pm
Donizetti: La Fille du R_giment
Armiliato; Dessay, Palmer, Fl‹rez, Corbelli, Caldwell -
4/30 Wed 8:00 pm
Mozart: Die Entf‹hrung aus dem Serail
Robertson; Damrau, Kurzak, Polenzani, Davislim, Sigmundsson
MAY
- 5/1 Thu 8:00 pm
Glass: Satyagraha
Anzolini; Durkin, R. Croft, Patriarco, Walker -
5/3 Sat 1:30 pm
Mozart: Die Entf‹hrung aus dem Serail
Robertson; Damrau, Kurzak, Polenzani, Davislim, Sigmundsson -
5/5 Mon 7:30 pm
Donizetti: La Fille du R_giment
Armiliato; Dessay, Palmer, Fl‹rez, Corbelli, Caldwell -
5/6 Tue 8:00 pm
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Bicket; Murphy, Iveri, Graham, Vondung, Vargas, Gradus -
5/7 Wed 8 :00 pm
Mozart: Die Entf‹hrung aus dem Serail
Robertson; Damrau, Kurzak, Polenzani, Davislim, Sigmundsson -
5/9 Fri 8 :00 pm
Verdi: Macbeth
Levine; Gruber, Calleja, Alvarez, Pape -
5/12 Mon 8:00 pm
Donizetti: La Fille du R_giment
Armiliato; Dessay, Palmer, Banks, Corbelli, Caldwell -
5/13 Tue 8:00 pm
Verdi: Macbeth
Levine; Gruber, Calleja, Alvarez, Pape -
5/14 Wed 8:00 pm
Tan Dun: The First Emperor
Tan Dun; Coburn, Liang, Mentzer, Domingo, Groves -
5/15 Thu 8:00 pm
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Bicket; Murphy, Iveri, Graham, Vondung, Vargas, Gradus
