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Metropolitan Opera on WOSU 89.7 FM

Saturday Afternoons on WOSU 89.7

The 2009-10 broadcast season of The Metropolitan Opera is sponsored by Toll Brothers™, America's luxury home builder®, with generous long-term support from the Annenberg Foundation and the Vincent A. Stabile Endowment for Broadcast Media and through contributions from listeners worldwide.

Visit us regularly on the web for synopses, artist biographies, production photos, sound clips, background information, and teacher study guides for every opera in our broadcast season. Click here for the full 2009–10 broadcast schedule. If you would like to request a printed copy of the Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Guide, please click here.

 
   December 12, 12:30 pm ET– Il Trittico.
Stefano Ranzani; Patricia Racette, Heidi Grant Murphy, Stephanie Blythe, Salvatore Licitra, Saimir Pirgu, Zeljko Lucic, Alessandro Corbelli

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   December 19, 1:00 pm ET– Les Contes d'Hoffmann.
December 19, 2009 / 1:00 pm ET
James Levine; Kathleen Kim, Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja, Alan Held

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   December 26, 1:00 pm ET– Elektra
Fabio Luisi; Susan Bullock, Deborah Voigt, Felicity Palmer, Wolfgang Schmidt, Evgeny Nikitin

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   January 2, 1:00 pm ET– Hansel and Gretel
Fabio Luisi; Miah Persson, Angelika Kirchschlager, Rosalind Plowright, Philip Langridge, Dwayne Croft

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   January 9, 1:00 pm ET– Der Rosenkavalier
Edo de Waart; Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Christine Schäfer, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen, Kristinn Sigmundsson
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   January 16, 1:00 pm ET– Carmen
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, Mariusz Kwiecien

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   January 23, 1:00 pm ET– Vanessa - Archive Broadcast from February 1, 1958
Dimitri Mitropoulos; Eleanor Steber, Nicolai Gedda, Rosalind Elias, Regina Resnik, Giorgio Tozzi, George Cehanovsky

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   January 30, 1:00 pm ET– Stiffelio
Plácido Domingo; Sondra Radvanovsky, José Cura, Andrzej Dobber, Phillip Ens

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   February 6, 1:00 pm ET– Simon Boccanegra
James Levine; Arianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, Plácido Domingo, James Morris

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   February 13, 1:00 pm ET– La Fille du Régiment
Marco Armiliato; Diana Damrau, Ann Murray, Kiri Te Kanawa, Juan Diego Flórez, Maurizio Muraro

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   February 20, 1:00 pm ET– Ariadne auf Naxos
Kirill Petrenko; Nina Stemme, Aleksandra Kurzak, Sarah Connolly, Lance Ryan, Jochen Schmeckenbecher

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   February 27, 1:00 pm ET–  La Bohème
Marco Armiliato; Anna Netrebko, Nicole Cabell, Piotr Beczala, Gerald Finley, Massimo Cavalletti, Oren Gradus, Paul Plishka

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March 6, 1:00 pm ET– Attila
Libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the play Attila, König der Hunnen by Zacharias Werner

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   March 13, 1:00 pm ET– The Nose
Valery Gergiev; Andrei Popov, Gordon Gietz, Paulo Szot. Music by Dmitri Shostakovich. Text (Russian) by the composer, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, and Alexander Preiss, based on Nikolai Gogol's story

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   March 20, 1:00 pm ET– From the House of the Dead - Performance from Fall 2009
Esa-Pekka Salonen; Stefan Margita, Kurt Streit, Peter Hoare, Peter Mattei, Willard White

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   March 27, 1:00 pm ET– Hamlet
Louis Langrée; Natalie Dessay, Jennifer Larmore, Toby Spence, Simon Keenlyside, James Morris

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    April 3, 1:00 pm ET– Aida
Paolo Carignani; Hui He, Dolora Zajick, Salvatore Licitra, Carlo Guelfi, Carlo Colombara, Stefan Kocán

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   April 10, 1:00 pm ET– Die Zauberflöte
Adam Fischer; Julia Kleiter, Albina Shagimuratova, Matthew Polenzani, Nathan Gunn, David Pittsinger, Hans-Peter König

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   April 17, 1:00 pm ET– La Traviata
Leonard Slatkin; Angela Gheorghiu, James Valenti, Thomas Hampson. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Text in Italian by Francesco Maria Piave, after the novel La Dame aux Camélias, by Alexandre Dumas fils

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   April 24, 1:00 pm ET– Tosca
James Levine; Karita Mattila, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, John Del Carlo. Music by Giacomo Puccini. Based on the play by Victorien Sardo.

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   May 1, 1:00 pm ET– Armida
Riccardo Frizza; Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruce Ford, José Manuel Zapata, Barry Banks, Kobie van Rensburg

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   May 8, 1:00 pm ET– Lulu
James Levine; Marlis Petersen, Anne Sofie von Otter, Gary Lehman, Michael Schade, David Pittsinger, James Morris

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The 2009–10 Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Season is sponsored by Toll Brothers, America’s luxury home builder®, with generous long-term support from The Annenberg Foundation and the Vincent A. Stabile Endowment for Broadcast Media, and through contributions from listeners worldwide.

The contents of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts are copyrighted by The Metropolitan Opera. All rights are reserved. Any use or reproduction of the material therein without permission of The Metropolitan Opera is strictly prohibited and will be prosecuted.

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