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Classic Arts News Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts Begin With Rigoletto The Metropolitan Opera's season of weekly live radio broadcasts begins today at 1:30 p.m. with Verdi's Rigoletto, conducted by Asher Fisch and starring Netrebko as Gilda and Rolando Villaz‹n as the Duke.
The Saturday afternoon broadcasts also include the world-premiere production of Tobias Picker's An American Tragedy and appearances by Plšcido Domingo, Karita Mattila, Ren_e Fleming, Deborah Voigt, and other stars.

Listeners will hear An American Tragedy, based on the Theodore Dreiser novel, on December 24, just three weeks after its world premiere on December 2. The cast includes Patricia Racette, Susan Graham, Nathan Gunn, Dolora Zajick, and Jennifer Larmore; James Conlon conducts.

Other highlights include the Met's year-old production of Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac, with Domingo in the title role, on February 4, 2006; the company's new production of Gounod's Rom_o et Juliette, with Ram‹n Vargas and Natalie Dessay in the title roles, on March 4; and a new production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale, conducted by music director James Levine and starring Netrebko and Juan Diego Fl‹rez, on April 15.

Fleming will appear in Massenet's Manon on April 8 and in Handel's Rodelinda on May 6; Voigt and Ben Heppner will star in Verdi's La forza del destino on March 11; Mattila and Heppner will appear together in Beethoven's Fidelio on April 1 and again in Wagner's Lohengrin on April 29.

On January 14, the Met will celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth with a broadcast of excerpts from archived Mozart performances.

The Met broadcasts are carried on more than 300 stations in the United States and reach 11 million people in 42 countries. Broadcasts begin at 1:30 p.m. ET except where noted below. Check local listings.

2005
December 17: Rigoletto
December 24: An American Tragedy
December 31: Wozzeck (1 p.m.)

2006
January 7: L'elisir d'amore
January 14: A Mozart Celebration
January 21: Die Zauberfl‹te
January 28: CosÐ fan tutte
February 4: Cyrano de Bergerac
February 11: La traviata
February 18: Aida
February 25: Samson et Dalila
March 4: Rom_o et Juliette
March 11: La forza del destino
March 18: Mazeppa
March 25: Luisa Miller
April 1: Fidelio
April 8: Manon
April 15: Don Pasquale
April 22: Le nozze di Figaro
April 29: Lohengrin
May 6: Rodelinda (12:30 p.m.)

 
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