Update: In light of the circumstances involving the COVID-19 virus, the Metropolitan Opera has canceled all performances and rehearsals through the rest of the season, effective immediately.
This includes the live Met Opera broadcasts that air Saturdays on Classical MPR. In their place, Classical MPR will air its regular classical programming until further notice.
GLASS — Akhnaten
Noon Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019
Disella Lárusdóttir, J'nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Aaron Blake, Will Liverman, Richard Bernstein, Zachary James
Karen Kamensek, conductor
TCHAIKOVSKY — The Queen of Spades
Noon Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019
Lise Davidsen, Elena Maximova, Larissa Diadkova, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Igor Golovatenko, Alexey Markov
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
VERDI — Macbeth
Noon Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019
(Performance from Fall 2019)
Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Plácido Domingo, Ildar Abdrazakov
Marco Armiliato, conductor
MOZART — The Magic Flute
Noon Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019
(Abridged English-language version)
Ying Fang, Kathryn Lewek, David Portillo, Rodell Rosel, Joshua Hopkins, Patrick Carfizzi, Soloman Howard
Lothar Koenigs, conductor
R. STRAUSS — Der Rosenkavalier
Noon Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020
Camilla Nylund, Magdalena Kožená, Golda Schultz, Katharine Goeldner, Matthew Polenzani, Thomas Ebenstein, Markus Eiche, Gunther Groissböck
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
BERG — Wozzeck
Noon Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020
Elza van den Heever, Tamara Mumford, Christopher Ventris, Gerhard Siegel, Andrew Staples, Peter Mattei, Christian Van Horn
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
VERDI — La Traviata
Noon Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020
Aleksandra Kurzak, Dmytro Popov, Quinn Kelsey
Karel Mark Chichon, conductor
PUCCINI — La Bohème
Noon Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020
(performance from Fall 2019)
Ailyn Pérez, Olga Kulchynska, Matthew Polenzani, David Bizic, Andrei Zhilikovsky, Jongmin Park, Arthur Woodley
Marco Armiliato, conductor
THE GERSHWINS — Porgy and Bess
Noon Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020
Angel Blue, Golda Schultz, Latonia Moore, Denyce Graves, Frederick Ballentine, Eric Owens, Alfred Walker, Donovan Singletary
David Robertson, conductor
BERLIOZ — La Damnation de Faust
Noon Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020
Elīna Garanča, Michael Spyres, Ildar Abdrazakov
Edward Gardner, conductor
MASSENET — Manon
Noon Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020
(Performance from Oct. 26, 2019)
Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Carlo Bosi, Artur Ruciński, Brett Polegato, Kwangchul Youn
Maurizio Benini, conductor
MOZART — Le Nozze di Figaro
Noon Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020
Anita Hartig, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Marianne Crebassa, MaryAnn McCormick, Mariusz Kwiecień, Adam Plachetka, Maurizio Muraro
Cornelius Meister, conductor
HANDEL — Agrippina
Noon Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020
Brenda Rae, Joyce DiDonato, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies, Duncan Rock, Matthew Rose
Harry Bicket, conductor
MOZART — Cosi fan tutte
Noon Saturday, March 7, 2020
Nicole Car, Serena Malfi, Heidi Stober, Ben Bliss, Luca Pisaroni, Gerald Finley
Harry Bicket, conductor
The remainder of the 2019-2020 season has been cancelled. This includes the weekly Saturday broadcasts on Classical MPR.
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