All Classical Portland is proud to share performances by the Metropolitan Opera, based in New York City, on the radio. Join us weekly on Saturdays at 10:00 AM PT (December through June) for a variety of productions performed by one of the country’s premiere opera companies.
Launched in 1931, the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday Matinee broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical music program in radio history. Learn more at metopera.org.
Tune in at 89.9 FM in Portland or anywhere in the world via our website’s live player.
All Classical Portland’s Metropolitan Opera broadcasts are made possible by a gift from the Buckmaster Trust, honoring the life and legacy of Duane Buckmaster, who reveled in the magic of opera, and fly-fishing for the wily trout. Buck loved both in full measure.
2022-23 Met Opera Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcasts
Debra Lew Harder hosts. All opera broadcasts begin at 10:00 AM PT unless otherwise noted.
Puts’ The Hours
December 10, 2022
The Met’s 2022-23 Saturday broadcast season opens with the live network broadcast premiere of The Hours by Kevin Puts. Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, and Joyce DiDonato star in the Met’s staging of the opera, conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Verdi’s Rigoletto
December 17, 2022
Lisette Oropesa, Aigul Akhmetshina, Stephen Costello, Luca Salsi, Andrea Mastroni, Speranza Scappucci conducting.
Cherubini’s Medea
January 7, 2023
Sondra Radvanovsky, Janai Brugger, Ekaterina Gubanova, Matthew Polenzani, Michele Pertusi, Carlo Rizzi conducting.
Giordano’s Fedora
January 14, 2023
Sonya Yoncheva, Rosa Feola, Piotr Beczała, Artur Ruciński, Marco Armiliato conducting.
Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
January 21, 2023
Golda Schultz, Javier Camarena, Davide Luciano, Ambrogio Maestri, Michele Gamba conducting.
Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites
January 28, 2023
Ailyn Pérez, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Sabine Devieilhe, Jamie Barton, Alice Coote, Piotr Buszewski, Laurent Naouri, Bertrand de Billy conducting.
Verdi’s Macbeth
February 4, 2023
Martina Arroyo, Franco Tagliavinii, Sherrill Milnes, Ruggero Raimondi, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli conducting. Performance from February 3, 1973.
Celebrating Franco Zeffirelli
February 11, 2023
The Met commemorates the centenary of director Franco Zeffirelli with a historic performance featuring Leonard Bernstein conducting Grace Bumbry and Franco Corelli in Cavalleria Rusticana, and Fausto Cleva conducting Teresa Stratas and Richard Tucker in Pagliacci. Performance from February 7, 1970.
Verdi’s Don Carlo
February 18, 2023
Eleonora Buratto, Anita Rachvelishvili, Russell Thomas, Peter Mattei, Günther Groissböck, John Relyea, Carlo Rizzi conducting.
Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
February 25, 2023
Eva-Maria Westbroek, Brandon Jovanovich, Nikolai Schukoff, John Relyea, Maria Barakova, Rodell Rosel, Goran Jurić, Alexey Shishlyaev, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Keri-Lynn Wilson conducting.
Listeners’ Choice: Donizetti’s La Favorita
March 4, 2023
López-Cobos; Shirley Verrett (Leonora), Luciano Pavarotti (Fernando), Sherrill Milnes (Alfonso), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Baldassare). (Performance from March 11, 1978.)
Verdi’s La Traviata
March 11, 2023
Angel Blue, Dmytro Popov, Artur Ruciński, Nicola Luisotti conducting.
Wagner’s Lohengrin
March 18, 2023 | 9:00 AM PT
Tamara Wilson, Christine Goerke, Piotr Beczała, Evgeny Nikitin, Brian Mulligan, Günther Groissböck, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting.
Bellini’s Norma
March 25, 2023 | 9:00 AM PT
Sonya Yoncheva, Ekaterina Gubanova, Michael Spyres, Christian Van Horn, Maurizio Benini conducting.
Verdi’s Falstaff
April 1, 2023
Hera Hyesang Park, Ailyn Pérez, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Bogdan Volkov, Michael Volle, Christopher Maltman, Daniele Rustioni conducting.
Puccini’s Tosca
April 8, 2023
Angela Gheorghiu, Yusif Eyvazov, Željko Lučić, Patrick Carfizzi, Domingo Hindoyan conducting.
Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
April 15, 2023 | 9:00 AM PT
Lise Davidsen, Isabel Leonard, Erin Morley, Katharine Goeldner, René Barbera, Thomas Ebenstein, Markus Brück, Günther Groissböck, Simone Young conducting.
Mozart’s Idomeneo
April 22, 2023
Ying Fang, Federica Lombardi, Kate Lindsey, Michael Spyres, Paolo Fanale, Issachah Savage, Manfred Honeck conducting. Performance from Fall 2022.
Britten’s Peter Grimes
April 28, 2023
Nicole Car, Allan Clayton, Adam Plachetka, Nicholas Carter conducting.
Puccini’s La Bohème
May 6, 2023
Eleonora Buratto, Kristina Mkhitaryan, Stephen Costello, Davide Luciano, Alexey Lavrov, Christian Van Horn, Donald Maxwell, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting.
Verdi’s Aida
May 13, 2023
Michelle Bradley, Olesya Petrova, Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze, Christian Van Horn, Krzysztof Bączyk, Paolo Carignani conducting.
Mozart’s Don Giovanni
May 20, 2023
Federica Lombardi, Ana María Martínez, Ying Fang, Ben Bliss, Peter Mattei, Adam Plachetka, Alfred Walker, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Nathalie Stutzmann conducting.
Blanchard’s Champion
May 27, 2023
Latonia Moore, Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens, Stephanie Blythe, Paul Groves, Eric Greene, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting.
Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
June 3, 2023
Erin Morley, Kathryn Lewek, Lawrence Brownlee, Thomas Oliemans, Alan Held, Stephen Milling, Brenton Ryan, Nathalie Stutzmann conducting.
Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer
June 10, 2023
Elza van den Heever, Eric Cutler, Richard Trey Smagur, Tomasz Konieczny, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Thomas Guggeis conducting.
Learn more at metopera.org.
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