The Metropolitan Opera on WAMC

Join us each Saturday as we hear performances fro The Met. Listeners in Albany can hear regularly scheduled programming on WAMC 1400 AM.

April Met Opera Broadcasts on WAMC

Saturday, April 7 – 1pm       
Manon (Massenet)
DELAYED FEED - Opera will run in its entirety.
Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.

Saturday, April 14 – 1pm
La Traviata (Verdi)
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.

Saturday, April 21 – 12pm
Siegfried (Wagner)
DELAYED FEED - Opera will run in its entirety.
In part three of the Ring, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while Robert Lepage’s revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Jay Hunter Morris sings the title role and Deborah Voigt’s Brünnhilde is his prize. Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer. Fabio Luisi conducts.

Saturday, April 28 – 12pm         
Die Walkure (Wagner)
DELAYED FEED - Opera will run in its entirety.
The second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by Fabio Luisi, features a stellar cast led by Bryn Terfel as Wotan, lord of the Gods, and Deborah Voigt as Brünnhilde. Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek star as the Wälsungen twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe is Fricka. “The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it’s a cosmos,” says Lepage (La Damnation de Faust), who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary imagination to the world’s greatest theatrical journey.