This encore broadcast from 2018 stars mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in the title role opposite mezzo-soprano Alice Coote as Prince Charming. Soprano Kathleen Kim sang Cendrillon’s Fairy Godmother, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe was her overbearing stepmother Madame de la Haltière, and bass-baritone Laurent Naouri sang Cendrillon’s beleaguered father Pandolfe.
Bertrand de Billy led the Met Orchestra and Chorus. Cendrillon will be heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, February 13. Listen to it on Classical IPR.
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The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Gounod’s Faust, conducted by
Yannick Nézet-Séguin in an encore broadcast from 2011.
Tenor
Jonas Kaufmann starred in the title role as the scholar who trades his soul to regain his youth. Soprano
Marina Poplavskaya sang Marguerite, Faust’s love interest and eventual victim, baritone
Russell Braun was Marguerite’s brother Valentin, and bass
René Pape sang the devil Méphistophélès.
In one of his early company appearances, Maestro Nézet-Séguin conducted the Met orchestra and chorus in Gounod’s lush, melodic score.
Leontyne Price
The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a broadcast in honor of two opera legends, Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli, on the occasion of their 60th Met anniversaries.
This performance of Verdi’s Il Trovatore
from February 4, 1961, marked the Met radio debuts of both Price and Corelli, and came just a week after their joint company stage debuts as the noblewoman Leonora and the troubadour Manrico.
Irene Dalis also starred as the mysterious gypsy Azucena and Mario Sereni was Manrico’s rival Count di Luna.
Il Trovatore will be heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 23. Listen to it on Classical IPR.
The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
, The Barber of Seville, one of opera’s best-loved comedies in a notable performance from 2007.
Mezzo-soprano
Joyce DiDonato starred as the determined Rosina opposite tenor
Lawrence Brownlee who made a sensational Metropolitan Opera debut that evening as the dashing Count Almaviva
. Baritone
John Del Carlo as Rosina’s jealous guardian Dr. Bartolo, and bass
Samuel Ramey as the scheming Don Basilio.
Maurizio Benini conducted.
Il Barbiere di Siviglia will be heard over the
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 9. Listen to it on Classical IPR.
Scene from The Magic Flute by Mozart.
The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a holiday presentation of Mozart’s fable The Magic Flute, a broadcast from 2010, abridged and sung in English.
It’s the story of a brave prince and princess – aided by a not-so-brave bird catcher – who embark on a quest to attain wisdom and love.
The performance stars