![]() This season, listeners also get to choose the historic broadcast they most want to hear for “Listeners’ Choice” on February 6, 2021. WRTI is proud to bring you the 89th season. ![]() Get tickets for upcoming shows below or find a participating theatre near you. Each opera is broadcast live on our screens on Saturdays, followed by encore showings of the previously recorded performance on Wednesdays. Host Mary Jo Heath and commentator Ira Siff return with insightful commentary and intermission features, including interviews with Met stars. Launched in 1931, the Met’s Saturday matinee broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical radio series in American broadcast history. Get fully immersed in this Emmy and Peabody award-winning series, featuring the most talented artists from across the globe. Remarkable moments from recent and past seasons include the radio broadcast debuts of Anna Netrebko, Leontyne Price, and Franco Corelli, as well as Renée Fleming’s final bow as Strauss’s Marschallin. Highlights include beloved operas by Puccini, Verdi, and Mozart dazzling bel canto works and rarely heard operas by Prokofiev, Strauss, and Philip Glass. Beginning December 5, 2020, and continuing for 27 consecutive Saturdays, you can hear the world’s greatest opera stars in exhilarating performances originally broadcast live from the Met stage. With Metropolitan Opera Radio you can listen, day and night, to up to four live broadcasts weekly during the season, as well as the finest performances ever recorded, including gems from the archives.
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