The Metropolitan Opera on Sirius Radio
Madama Butterfly -- Flowing Robes
Introducing The Definitive Channel for Opera Lovers
Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Metropolitan Opera Radio on Sirius Channel 85 will offer up to four live Met performances each week and is commercial-free. The full schedule of live broadcasts through the end of October is listed below.

In addition, the channel will air approximately 45 archival performances each month. These performances, culled from 75 years of Met radio broadcasts, have all been restored and remastered for the new channel. Highlights from the October archival lineup include:

Bizet: Carmen (1/9/37) Papi; Ponselle, Bodanya, Rayner,
Huehn
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2/27/37) Papi; Pons, Jagel, Brownlee, Pinza
Wagner: Die Walküre (12/2/44) Szell; Traubel, Bampton, Thorborg, Melchior, Janssen, Kipnis
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (2/1/47) Cooper; Sayão, Benzell, Turner, Björling, Brownlee, Moscona
Verdi: Aida (2/20/54) Cleva; Milanov, Baribiere, Baum, Warren, Hines
Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani (3/9/74) Levine; Caballé, Gedda, Milnes, Díaz
Verdi: Aida (3/6/76) Levine; Price, Horne, Domingo, MacNeil, Giaiotti
Wagner: Parsifal (4/7/01) Levine; Urmana, Domingo, Ketelsen, Wlaschiha, Tomlinson
Wagner: Die Meistersinger (12/8/01) Levine; Mattila, Grove, Heppner, Polenzani, Morris, Allen, Pape
Verdi: La Traviata (3/6/04) Gergiev; Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky

For more information on Metropolitan Opera Radio, including the availability of a free 3-day trial, please visit www.sirius.com/metopera or Click Here.

Upcoming Live Radio Broadcasts*
 
SEPTEMBER
9/30 Sat 8:00 Ponchielli: La Gioconda de Billy; Urmana, Borodina, Mishura, Machado, Lučić, Burchuladze
       
OCTOBER   
10/2 Mon 8:00 Mozart: Idomeneo Levine; Röschmann, Makarina, Jepson, Heppner
10/3 Tues8:00 Gounod: Faust de Billy; Swenson, Deshayes, Vargas, Hakala, Abdrazakov
10/4 Wed8:00 Ponchielli: La Gioconda de Billy; Urmana, Borodina, Mishura, Machado, Lučić, Burchuladze
10/5 Thurs 8:00 Puccini: Madama Butterfly Fisch; Gallardo-Domâs, Zifchak, Giordani, Croft
       
10/9 Mon 7:30 Mozart: Die Zauberflöte Bergeson; Bayrakdarian, Miklósa, Kaufmann, Gunn, Schulte, Milling
10/10 Tues 7:30 Mozart: Idomeneo Levine; Röschmann, Makarina, Jepson, Heppner
10/12 Thurs 7:30 Gounod: Faust de Billy; Swenson, Deshayes, Vargas, Hakala, Abdrazakov
10/14 Sat 8:00 Ponchielli: La Gioconda de Billy; Urmana, Borodina, Mishura, Machado, Lučić, Burchuladze
       
10/16 Mon 7:30Gounod: Faust de Billy; Swenson, Deshayes, Vargas, Hakala, Abdrazakov
10/17 Tues 7:30Puccini: Madama Butterfly Fisch; Gallardo-Domâs, Zifchak, Giordani, Croft
10/18 Wed 7:30 Ponchielli: La Gioconda de Billy; Millo, Borodina, White, Machado, Lučić, Burchuladze
10/20 Fri 8:00 Mascagni/Leoncavallo: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci Armiliato; Guleghina, Farina, Maestri/Racette, Licitra, Ataneli
       
10/25 Wed 8:00 Verdi: Rigoletto Haider; Siurina, Herrera, Calleja, Pons, Burchuladze
10/26 Thurs 8:00 Mascagni/Leoncavallo: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci Armiliato; Guleghina, Farina, Maestri/Racette, Licitra, Ataneli
10/27 Fri 8:00 Puccini: Madama Butterfly Fisch; Gallardo-Domâs, Zifchak, Giordani, Croft
10/28 Sat 8:00 Puccini: Tosca Luisotti; Gruber, Cura, Morris
       
10/30 Mon 8:00 Mascagni/Leoncavallo: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci Armiliato; Guleghina, Farina, Maestri/Racette, Licitra, Rucker

Please visit www.sirius.com/metopera for more information.


* Schedule Subject to Change
Photo Credit: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera

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