On Saturday, December 1st, JPR's Classics & News Service will begin the Metropolitan Opera's 88th season of Saturday morning broadcasts with Boito's Mefistofele. All broadacsts this season begin at 10am except for Wagner's Die Walkure (3/30), Siegfried (4/13), and Gotterfammerung (4/27), which all begin at 9:00am. The broadcast season will once again be heard live over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network.
Mary Jo Heath returns for her fourth season as host and Ira Siff returns for his 12th season as commentator for the broadcasts, which feature a range of dynamic intermission features, live backstage interviews with artists, and the everpopular Opera Quiz.
The Met's 2018-2019 season includes:
(* indicates New Production)
Dec 1 Mefistofele (Boito)
Dec 8 Il Trittico (Puccini)
Dec 15 La Traviata* (Verdi)
Dec 22 La Fanicula del West (Puccini)
Dec 29 The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Jan 5 Otello (Verdi)
Jan 12 Adriana Lecouvreur* (Cilea)
Jan 19 Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy)
Jan 26 Marnie* (Muhly) – Met Premiere
Feb 2 Carmen (Bizet)
Feb 9 Iolanta (Tchaikovsky) / Bluebeard's Castle (Bartók)
Feb 16 Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Feb 23 Rigoletto (Verdi)
Mar 2 La Fille du Régiment (Donizetti)
Mar 9 Das Rheingold (Wagner)
Mar 16 Falstaff (Verdi)
Mar 23 Samson et Dalila* (Saint-Saëns)
Mar 30 Die Walküre (Wagner)
Apr 6 Tosca (Puccini)
Apr 13 Siegfried (Wagner)
Apr 20 La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart)
Apr 27 Götterdämmerung (Wagner)
May 4 Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Bizet)
May 11 Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc)
