WRTI brings you opera broadcasts presented by some of the most revered opera companies from the United States and around the world, every Saturday throughout the year at 1 p.m., including the entire Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee broadcast season.

Coming up:

Nov. 1
Bayreuth Festival
Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

Cast:
Georg Zeepenfeld (Hans Sachs), Jongmin Park (Veit Pgoner), Martin Koch (Kunz Vogelgesang), Werner Van Mechelen (Konrad Nachtigall), Michael Nagy (Sixtus Beckmesser), Jordan Shanahan (Fritz Kothner)Conductor: Daniele Gatti

Nov. 8
OPERA DAY SPECIAL: Donizetti’s La fille du Regiment
Zev Kane hosts this special Opera Day broadcast honoring the 90th birth anniversary of Luciano Pavarotti, with a classic 1968 recording from London’s Covent Garden and conductor Richard Bonynge, featuring Pavarotti as Tonio, Dame Joan Sutherland as Marie, Spiro Malas as Sulpice, Monica Sinclair as the Marquise of Berkenfield, and Jules Bruyere as Hortensius.

Nov. 15
Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte from the Academy of Vocal Arts
John Scherch hosts this special broadcast in collaboration with AVA of their performance of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, recorded at the Helen Corning Warden Theater in February. It features the AVA Opera Orchestra conducted by Robert Kahn with Joshua Berg as Ferrando, Joshua Klein as Guglielmo, Nan Wang as Don Alfonso, Veronica Richer as Fiordiligi, Alla Yarosh as Dorabella, and Beautiful Sheriff as Despina.

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