This encore broadcast from 2013 features American soprano
Christine Goerke whose breakthrough performance as the Dyer’s Wife established her as a leading dramatic soprano.
German soprano
Anne Schwanewilms starred in the title role as the otherworldly Empress who must decide whether to sacrifice someone else’s happiness to achieve her own. Hungarian mezzo-soprano
Ildikó Komlósi was the Empress’s scheming Nurse, Danish bass-baritone
Johan Reuter sang Barak, the humble Dyer, and German tenor
Torsten Kerl was the Emperor.
Vladimir Jurowski conducted the Met Orchestra in Strauss’s mesmerizing score.
Die Frau ohne Schatten will be heard over the
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 24. Listen to it on Classical IPR.
Willard White, who sang the noble political prisoner Gorianchikov.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the Met Orchestra and Chorus in Janáček’s remarkable score – a distillation of unflinching drama and vivid humanity.
From the House of the Dead will be heard over the
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 17.
Click here to view a synopsis of From the House of the Dead.
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This performance, recorded in the fall of 2017, saw the Met debut of the radiant American soprano Angel Blue and is being featured for the first time in a Saturday matinee broadcast.
Blue starred as the fragile but intensely passionate Mimì, opposite tenor Dmytro Popov as the poet Rodolfo. Soprano Brigitta Kele and baritone Lucas Meachem were the on-again, off-again couple Musetta and Marcello.
Alexander Soddy conducted the Met Orchestra and Chorus in Puccini’s enduring story of youthful love and loss.
La Bohème will be heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 10.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted a cast led by soprano
Renée Fleming who starred in one of her signature roles as Rusalka, the water nymph who longs to become human.
Tenor
Piotr Beczała was the fickle Prince, and mezzo-soprano
Dolora Zajick was Ježibaba, the witch who grants Rusalka’s wish at an awful price. Bass
John Relyea sang Rusalka’s father, the Water Gnome, and soprano
Emily Magee was the jealous Foreign Princess.
Rusalka will be heard over the
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 3. Listen to it on Classical IPR.
This encore broadcast from 2018 features an outstanding ensemble cast. Bass
Ildar Abdrazakov starred as the quick-witted valet Figaro opposite soprano
Nadine Sierra as his equally resourceful bride, the maid Susanna.
Soprano
Mariusz Kwiecien as the philandering Count, and mezzo-soprano
Isabel Leonard was the perpetually love-sick pageboy Cherubino.
Harry Bicket led the Met Orchestra and Chorus in this sparkling musical masterpiece.
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro will be heard over the
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, March 13. Listen to it on Classical IPR.
Click here to view and English translation of the libretto.