Metropolitan Opera 2011-2012 Broadcast/HD schedule

All Met broadcasts on KHPR begin at 1 p.m. on Saturdays unless otherwise noted. They're heard statewide on KHPR 88.1, KKUA 90.7 and KANO 91.1, or you can stream them by clicking on the KHPR letters on the above right on this page. The letters HD on a listing mean that performance is receiving a simultaneous high definition transmission to a local movie theatre. For additional information on the HD broadcast schedule, click on the appropriate menu link that drops down from Programs on the menu bar above.

 December 3    RODELINDA (Handel)
HD    Bicket; Fleming, Blythe, Scholl, Davies, Kaiser, Shenyang

December 10    FAUST* (Gounod)
HD    Nézet-Séguin; Poplavskaya, Losier, Kaufmann, Braun, Pape

December 17    MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini)
    Domingo; Zhang, Zifchak, Smith, Salsi

December 24    LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Donizetti)
    Abel; Machaidze, Murray, Te Kanawa, Brownlee, Muraro

December 31    DIE FLEDERMAUS (J. Strauss)
    Performance from January 20, 1951
    Ormandy; Piazza, Munsel, Stevens, Kullman, Tucker, J. Brownlee, Gilford

2012   
January 7    HANSEL AND GRETEL (Humperdinck)
    English-language translation by David Pountney
    Ticciati; Kurzak, Coote, Martens, Brubaker, D. Croft

January 14    NORMA (Bellini)
    Performance from April 4, 1970
    Bonynge; Sutherland, Horne, Bergonzi, Siepi

January 21    THE ENCHANTED ISLAND** (Handel, Rameau, Vivaldi & others)
HD    Original English-language libretto by Jeremy Sams
    Christie; de Niese, Oropesa, DiDonato, Daniels, Costanzo, Domingo, Pisaroni

January 28    TOSCA (Puccini)
    Franck; Racette, Antonenko, Morris, Plishka

February 4    ANNA BOLENA* (Donizetti)
    Armiliato; Netrebko, Gubanova, Mumford, Costello, Abdrazakov

February 11    GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG* (Wagner) (begins at Noon)
HD    Levine; Voigt, Harmer, Meier, Lehman, Paterson, Owens, König

February 18    IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Rossini)
    Benini; Damrau, C. Lee, Pogossov, Del Carlo, Furlanetto

February 25    ERNANI (Verdi)
HD    Armiliato; Meade, Licitra, Hvorostovsky, Furlanetto

March 3    AIDA (Verdi)
    Armiliato; Urmana, Blythe, Álvarez, Ataneli, Morris, Bisch

March 10    DON GIOVANNI* (Mozart)
    Davis; Rebeka, Dasch, Leonard, Polenzani, Finley, Relyea, Shenyang, Morris

March 17    KHOVANSHCHINA (Mussorgsky)
    Petrenko; Borodina, Didyk, Galouzine, Gagnidze, Kotscherga, Abdrazakov

March 24    MACBETH (Verdi)
    Noseda; Michael, Pittas, Hampson, Groissböck

March 31    L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Donizetti)
    Renzetti; Damrau, Flórez, Kwiecien, Corbelli

April 7    MANON* (Massenet)
HD    Luisi; Netrebko, Beczala, Szot, Pittsinger

April 14    LA TRAVIATA (Verdi)
HD    Luisi; Dessay, Polenzani, Hvorostovsky

April 21    SIEGFRIED* (Wagner) (begins at Noon)
    Levine; Voigt, Bardon, Lehman, Siegel, Terfel, Owens

April 28    DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner) (begins at Noon)
    Levine; Dalayman, Westbroek, Blythe, Kaufmann, Terfel, König

May 5    THE MAKROPULOS CASE (Janáček)
    Bělohlávek; Mattila, Streit, Reuter, Fox