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24 Sep 2007

The Metropolitan Opera has announced this season' schedule of live broadcasts from its stage on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's all-Met channel. During the company's 34-week season, four performances each week will be broadcast live from the Met on SIRIUS.

Now in its second year, the Metropolitan Opera on SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Channel 85) is available to SIRIUS subscribers in the United States and Canada. The subscription costs $12.95; the channel requires either a special satellite receiver or downloading via the Dish Network satellite television service; subscribers can also listen online via the SIRIUS website.

The Metropolitan Opera on SIRIUS Satellite Radio.

Naturally, the new season's live broadcasts begin with tonight's season opener, Lucia di Lammermoor. The SIRIUS broadcast schedule features live, opening night premiere broadcasts of six of the Met’s seven new productions in 2007-08: Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride on Tuesday, November 27, conducted by Louis Langrée and starring Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo; Verdi’s Macbeth on Monday, October 22, conducted by James Levine and starring Zeljko Lucic and Maria Guleghina; Britten’s Peter Grimes on Wednesday, February 28, conducted by Donald Runnicles and featuring Anthony Dean Griffey and Patricia Racette; the Met premiere of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha on Wednesday, April 11, conducted by Dante Anzolini and starring Richard Croft; and Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment on Saturday, April 21, conducted by Marco Armiliato and starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez. A new English-language production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel conducted by Vladimir Jurowski will air for the first time on Saturday, December 29.

The new Met-SIRIUS broadcast schedule will also feature re-mastered historic broadcasts and notable performances from recent seasons. New to the channel this season is The Met on Record, a weekly program that will feature Metropolitan Opera commercial recordings from the 1940s through the present day. The Met on Record airs every Sunday at 9 p.m., beginning September 30.

Margaret Juntwait, host of the Toll Brothers Metropolitan Opera Saturday broadcasts on terrestrial radio, returns as announcer for the SIRIUS Met channel.

A full schedule of the 2007-08 Metropolitan Opera Radio on SIRIUS Satellite Radio follows below. For more information, visit www.metopera.org and www.sirius.com.

Live SIRIUS Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Schedule for the 2007-08 Season

SEPTEMBER

• Mon 9/24 6:30 pm
  Opening Night Gala, New Production Premiere
  Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
  Levine; Dessay, Giordani, Kwiecien, Relyea
  
• 9/25 Tue 8:00 pm
  Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
  Domingo; Netrebko, Leonard, Alagna, Degout, Sigmundsson
  
• 9/27 Thurs 8:00 pm
  Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
  Levine; Dessay, Giordani, Kwiecien, Relyea
  

OCTOBER

• 10/2 Tue 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
  Jordan; Hong, Bayrakdarian, Vondung, Pertusi, Schrott
  
• 10/3 Wed 7:30 pm
  Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
  Domingo; Netrebko, Leonard, Kaiser, Degout, Sigmundsson
  
• 10/4 Thurs 8:00 pm
  Verdi : Aida
  Ono; Brown, Zajick, Berti, Dobber, Colombara, Kavrakos
  
• 10/5 Fri 8:00 pm
  Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
  Bachman; Dessay, Giordani, Kwiecien, Relyea
  
• 10/8 Mon 8:00 pm
  Puccini: Madama Butterfly
  Elder; Racette, Zifchak, Alagna, Salsi
  
• 10/10 Wed 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
  Jordan; Hong, Bayrakdarian, Vondung, Pertusi, Schrott
  
• 10/11 Thur 8:00 pm
  Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
  Domingo; Netrebko, Leonard, Kaiser, Degout, Sigmundsson
  
• 10/12 Fri 8:00 pm
  Puccini: Madama Butterfly
  Elder; Racette, Zifchak, Alagna, Salsi
  
• 10/16 Tues 8:00 pm
  Verdi : Aida
  Ono; Brown, Zajick, Berti, Dobber, Kowaljow, Hagen
  
• 10/17 Wed 8:00 pm
  Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
  Levine; Massis, Giordani, Kwiecien, Relyea
• 10/18 Thur 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
  Jordan; Hong, Bayrakdarian, Vondung, Pertusi, Schrott
  
• 10/19 Fri 8:00 pm
  Puccini: Madama Butterfly
  Elder; Racette, Zifchak, Alagna, Salsi
  
• 10/22 Mon 8:00 pm
  New Production Premiere
  Verdi: Macbeth
  Levine; Guleghina, Pittas, Lucic, Relyea
  
• 10/24 Wed 8:00 pm
  Verdi : Aida
  Ono; Carosi, Borodina, Berti, Pons, Kowaljow, Kavrakos
  
• 10/25 Thur 8:00 pm
  Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
  Levine; Massis, Costello, Kwiecien, Relyea
  
• 10/26 Fri 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Macbeth
  Levine; Guleghina, Pittas, Lucic, Relyea
  
• 10/29 Mon 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
  Petrenko; Damrau, Kaappola, Cutler, Degout, Schulte, Hagen
  
• 10/31 Wed 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Macbeth
  Levine; Guleghina, Pittas, Lucic, Relyea
  

NOVEMBER

• 11/1 Thur 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
  Petrenko; Damrau, Kaappola, Cutler, Degout, Schulte, Hagen
  
• 11/2 Fri 7:30 pm
  Verdi : Aida
  Ono; Brown, Borodina, Berti, Delavan, Kowaljow, Kavrakos
  
• 11/6 Tue 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
  Petrenko; Damrau, Kaappola, Cutler, Degout, Schulte, Hagen
  
• 11/7 Wed 8:00 pm
  Verdi: La traviata
  Armiliato; Fleming, Polenzani, D. Croft
  
• 11/8 Thur 8:00 pm
  Verdi : Aida
  Ono; Brown, D’Intino, Berti, Delavan, Kowaljow, Hagen
  
• 11/12 Mon 8:00 pm
  Bellini: Norma
  Benini; Papian, Zajick, Farina, Kowaljow
  
• 11/13 Tues 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
  Petrenko; Damrau, Kaappola, Kaiser, Degout, Schulte, Hagen
  
• 11/14 Wed 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
  Jordan; Harteros, Siurina, Lindsey, Keenlyside, Terfel
  
• 11/15 Thur 8:00 pm
  Verdi: La traviata
  Armiliato; Fleming, Polenzani, D. Croft
  
• 11/19 Mon 8:00 pm
  Bellini: Norma
  Benini; Papian, Zajick, Farina, Kowaljow
  
• 11/20 Tues 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
  Petrenko; Kühmeier, Damrau, Kaiser, Degout, Schulte, Hagen
  
• 11/21 Wed 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
  Jordan; Harteros, Siurina, Lindsey, Keenlyside, Terfel
  
• 11/26 Mon 7:30 pm
  Bellini: Norma
  Benini; Guleghina, Zajick, Farina, Kowaljow
  
• 11/27 Tues 8:00 pm
  New Production Premiere
  Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
  Langrée; Graham, Domingo, Groves, Shimell
  
• 11/28 Wed 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
  Jordan; Harteros, Siurina, Lindsey, Keenlyside, Terfel
  
• 11/30 Fri 8:00 pm
  Bellini: Norma
  Benini; Guleghina, Zajick, Farina, Tian
  

DECEMBER

• 12/4 Tues 8:00 pm
  Bellini: Norma
  Benini; Guleghina, Zajick, Farina, Kowaljow
  
• 12/5 Wed 8:00 pm
  Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
  Langrée; Graham, Domingo, Groves, Shimell
  
• 12/8 Sat 1:30 pm
  Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
  Langrée; Graham, Domingo, Groves, Shimell
  
• 12/10 Mon 7:30 pm
  Prokofiev: War and Peace
  Gergiev; Mataeva, Semenchuk, Shevchenko, Begley, Ladyuk, Gerello, Ramey
  
• 12/11 Tue 8:00 pm
  Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
  Langrée; Graham, Domingo, Groves, Shimell
  
• 12/12 Wed 8:00 pm
  Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
  Domingo; Netrebko, Leonard, TBA, Gunn, Lloyd
  
• 12/15 Sat 1:00 pm
  Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
  Domingo; Netrebko, Leonard, TBA, Gunn, Lloyd
  
• 12/17 Mon 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
  Noseda; Crider, Sala, Blythe, Licitra, Hvorostovsky
  
• 12/19 Wed 8:00 pm
  Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
  Langrée; Graham, Domingo, Groves, Shimell
  
• 12/20 Thurs 8:00 pm
  Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
  Domingo; Netrebko, Lindsey, TBA, Gunn, Lloyd
  
• 12/22 Sat 12:30 pm
  Prokofiev: War and Peace
  Gergiev; Poplavskaya, Semenchuk, Shevchenko, Begley, Markov, Gerello, Ramey
  
• 12/26 Wed 7:30 pm
  Prokofiev: War and Peace
  Gergiev; Poplavskaya, Semenchuk, Shevchenko, Begley, Markov, Gerello, Ramey
  
• 12/27 Thurs 7:30 pm
  Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
  Nadler; Netrebko, Lindsey, Polenzani, Gunn, Lloyd
  
• 12/29 Sat 1:30 pm
  Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
  Jurowski; Schäfer, Coote, Plowright, Langridge, Held
  

JANUARY

• 12/31 Mon 7:00 pm
  Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
  Nadler; Netrebko, Leonard, Polenzani, Gunn, Lloyd
  
• 1/ 1 Tues 1:00 pm
  Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
  Jurowski; Schäfer, Coote, Plowright, Langridge, Held
  
• 1/ 3 Thurs 7:30 pm
  Prokofiev: War and Peace
  Noseda; Mataeva, Semenchuk , Shevchenko, Begley, Ladyuk, TBA, Ramey
  
• 1/5 Sat 1:30 pm
  Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
  Noseda; Crider, Sala, Blythe, Licitra, Hvorostovsky
• 1/7 Mon 6:30 pm
  Wagner: Die Walküre
  Maazel ; Gasteen, Pieczonka, Blythe, Forbis, Morris, Petrenko
  
• 1/8 Tues 8:00 pm
  Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
  Jurowski; Schäfer, Coote, Plowright, Langridge, Held
  
• 1/9 Wed 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Macbeth
  Levine; Guleghina, Aronica, Ataneli, Relyea
  
• 1/12 Sat 1:30 pm
  Verdi: Macbeth
  Levine; Guleghina, Aronica, Ataneli, Relyea
• 1/14 Mon 6:30 pm
  Wagner: Die Walküre
  Maazel; Gasteen, Pieczonka, Blythe, Forbis, Morris, Petrenko
  
• 1/15 Tue 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Macbeth
  Levine; Gruber, Pittas, Ataneli, Relyea
  
• 1/19 Sat 1:30 pm
  Archive Presentation
  Puccini: La Bohème
  Levine; Scotto, Pavarotti, Niska, Wixell, Monk, Plishka, Tajo
  
• 1/22 Tue 8:00 pm
  Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
  Chaslin; Garanca, Schade, Vassallo, Praticò, Rose
  
• 1/23 Wed 8:00 pm
  Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
  Jurowski; Schäfer, Coote, Plowright, Langridge, Held
  
• 1/26 Sat 1:30 pm
  Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
  Chaslin; Garanca, Schade, Vassallo, Praticò, Rose
  
• 1/29 Tues 8:00 pm
  Puccini: Manon Lescaut
  Levine; Mattila, Giordani, D. Croft, Travis
  
• 1/30 Wed 8:00 pm
  Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
  Chaslin; Garanca, Schade, Vassallo, Praticò, Rose
  
• 1/31 Thurs 8:00 pm
  Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
  Jackson; Schäfer, Coote, Plowright, Langridge, Hancock
  

FEBRUARY

• 2/2 Sat 12:30 pm
  Wagner: Die Walküre
  Maazel; Gasteen, Voigt, DeYoung, Forbis, Morris, Petrenko
  
• 2/4 Mon 8:00 pm
  Bizet: Carmen
  Villaume; Kovalevska, Borodina, Álvarez, Gallo
  
• 2/5 Tues 7:30 pm
  Puccini: Manon Lescaut
  Levine; Mattila, Giordani, D. Croft, Travis
  
• 2/7 Thurs 6:30 pm
  Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
  Chaslin; Garanca, Zapata, Vassallo, Muraro, Raimondi
  
• 2/9 Sat 1:30 pm
  Archive Presentation
  Rossini: The Siege of Corinth
  Schippers; Sills, Verrett, Díaz
  
• 2/11 Mon 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Otello
  Bychkov; Fleming, Botha, Guelfi
  
• 2/13 Wed 8:00 pm
  Bizet: Carmen
  Villaume; Kovalevska, Borodina, Álvarez, Gallo
  
• 2/14 Thurs 8:00 pm
  Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
  Chaslin; Garanca, Zapata, Vassallo, Muraro, Raimondi
  
• 2/16 Sat 1:00 pm
  Puccini: Manon Lescaut
  Levine; Mattila, Giordani, D. Croft, Travis
  
• 2/18 Mon 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Otello
  Bychkov; Fleming, Botha, Guelfi
  
• 2/20 Wed 8:00 pm
  Puccini: Manon Lescaut
  Runnicles; Mattila, Giordani, D. Croft, Travis
  
• 2/21 Thurs 8:00 pm
  Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
  Chaslin; Garanca, Schade, Vassallo, Muraro, Raimondi
  
• 2/23 Sat 1:30 pm
  Bizet: Carmen
  Villaume; Stoyanova, Borodina, Álvarez, Gallo
  
• 2/25 Mon 8:00 pm
  Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
  Chaslin; Garanca, Schade, Vassallo, Muraro, Raimondi
  
• 2/27 Wed 8:00 pm
  Bizet: Carmen
  Villaume; Stoyanova, Herrera, Álvarez, Gallo
  
• 2/28 Thurs 7:30 pm
  New Production Premiere
  Britten: Peter Grimes
  Runnicles; Racette, Griffey, Michaels-Moore
  

MARCH

• 3/1 Sat 1:00 pm
  Verdi: Otello
  Bychkov; Fleming, Botha, Guelfi
  
• 3/3 Mon 8:00 pm
  Britten: Peter Grimes
  Runnicles; Racette, Griffey, Michaels-Moore
  
• 3/4 Tue 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Otello
  Bychkov; Fleming, Botha, Guelfi
  
• 3/6 Thurs 8:00 pm
  Verdi: La traviata
  Armiliato; Swenson, Polenzani, D. Croft
  
• 3/8 Sat 1:30 pm
  Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
  Levine; Dessay, Filianoti, Kwiecien, Relyea
  
• 3/10 Mon 7:00 pm
  Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
  Levine; Voigt, DeYoung, Heppner, Schulte, Salminen
  
• 3/12 Wed 8 :00 pm
  Verdi: La traviata
  Armiliato; Swenson, Kaufmann, D. Croft
  
• 3/13 Thurs 8:00 pm
  Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
  Colaneri; Dessay, Filianoti, Kwiecien, Relyea
  
• 3/15 Sat 1:30 pm
  Britten: Peter Grimes
  Runnicles; Racette, Griffey, Michaels-Moore
  
• 3/17 Mon 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Ernani
  Abbado; Radvanovsky, Giordani, Hampson, Furlanetto
  
• 3/19 Wed 7:30 pm
  Verdi: La traviata
  Armiliato; Swenson, Polenzani, D. Croft
  
• 3/21 Fri 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Ernani
  Abbado; Radvanovsky, Giordani, Hampson, Furlanetto
  
• 3/22 Sat 12:30 pm
  Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
  Levine; Voigt, DeYoung, Heppner, Schulte, Salminen
  
• 3/24 Mon 8:00 pm
  Britten: Peter Grimes
  Runnicles; Racette, Griffey, Michaels-Moore
  
• 3/25 Tue 7:00 pm
  Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
  Levine; Voigt, DeYoung, Heppner, Fink, Salminen
  
• 3/27 Thu 8:00 pm
  Prokofiev: The Gambler
  Gergiev; Guryakova, Savova, Diadkova, Galouzine, Gassiev, Hancock, Aleksashkin
  
• 3/29 Sat 1:30 pm
  Verdi: Ernani
  Abbado; Radvanovsky, Giordani, Hampson, Furlanetto
  
• 3/31 Mon 8:00 pm
  Prokofiev: The Gambler
  Gergiev; Guryakova, Savova, Diadkova, Galouzine, Gassiev, Hancock, Aleksashkin
  

APRIL

• 4/1 Tue 7:30 pm
  Puccini: La Bohème
  Luisotti; Gheorghiu, Arteta, Vargas, Tézier, Kelsey, Gradus, Plishka
  
• 4/2 Wed 7:30 pm
  Verdi: Ernani
  Abbado; Radvanovsky, Giordani, Hampson, Furlanetto
  
• 4/5 Sat 1:30 pm
  Puccini: La Bohème
  Luisotti; Gheorghiu, Arteta, Vargas, Tézier, Kelsey, Gradus, Plishka
  
• 4/9 Wed 7:30 pm
  Puccini: La Bohème
  Luisotti; Gheorghiu, Arteta, Vargas, Tézier, Kelsey, Gradus, Plishka
  
• 4/10 Thu 7:30 pm
  Verdi: Ernani
  Abbado; Radvanovsky, Giordani, Hampson, Furlanetto
  
• 4/11 Fri 8:00 pm
  Metropolitan Opera Premiere
  Glass: Satyagraha
  Anzolini; Durkin, R. Croft, Patriarco, Walker
  
• 4/12 Sat 1:30 pm
  Prokofiev: The Gambler
  Gergiev; Guryakova, Savova, Diadkova, Galouzine, Gassiev, Hancock, Aleksashkin
  
• 4/14 Mon 8:00 pm
  Glass: Satyagraha
  Anzolini; Durkin, R. Croft, Patriarco, Walker
  
• 4/15 Tue 7:30 pm
  Puccini: La Bohème
  Luisotti; Gheorghiu, Arteta, Vargas, Tézier, Kelsey, Gradus, Plishka
  
• 4/16 Wed 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
  Noseda; Brown, Sala, Blythe, Licitra, Hvorostovsky
  
• 4/19 Sat 1 :30 pm
  Glass: Satyagraha
  Anzolini; Durkin, R. Croft, Patriarco, Walker
  
• 4/21 Mon 8 :00 pm
  New Production Premiere
  Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
  Armiliato; Dessay, Palmer, Flórez, Corbelli, Caldwell
  
• 4/22 Tue 8:00 pm
  Glass: Satyagraha
  Anzolini; Durkin, R. Croft, Patriarco, Walker
  
• 4/23 Wed 7 :30 pm
  Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
  Noseda; Brown, Sala, Blythe, Licitra, Hvorostovsky
  
• 4/26 Sat 1:30 pm
  Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
  Armiliato; Dessay, Palmer, Flórez, Corbelli, Caldwell
  
• 4/29 Tue 7 :30 pm
  Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
  Armiliato; Dessay, Palmer, Flórez, Corbelli, Caldwell
  
• 4/30 Wed 8:00 pm
  Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  Robertson; Damrau, Kurzak, Polenzani, Davislim, Sigmundsson
  

MAY

• 5/1 Thu 8:00 pm
  Glass: Satyagraha
  Anzolini; Durkin, R. Croft, Patriarco, Walker
  
• 5/3 Sat 1:30 pm
  Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  Robertson; Damrau, Kurzak, Polenzani, Davislim, Sigmundsson
  
• 5/5 Mon 7:30 pm
  Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
  Armiliato; Dessay, Palmer, Flórez, Corbelli, Caldwell
  
• 5/6 Tue 8:00 pm
  Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
  Bicket; Murphy, Iveri, Graham, Vondung, Vargas, Gradus
  
• 5/7 Wed 8 :00 pm
  Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  Robertson; Damrau, Kurzak, Polenzani, Davislim, Sigmundsson
  
• 5/9 Fri 8 :00 pm
  Verdi: Macbeth
  Levine; Gruber, Calleja, Alvarez, Pape
  
• 5/12 Mon 8:00 pm
  Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
  Armiliato; Dessay, Palmer, Banks, Corbelli, Caldwell
  
• 5/13 Tue 8:00 pm
  Verdi: Macbeth
  Levine; Gruber, Calleja, Alvarez, Pape
  
• 5/14 Wed 8:00 pm
  Tan Dun: The First Emperor
  Tan Dun; Coburn, Liang, Mentzer, Domingo, Groves
  
• 5/15 Thu 8:00 pm
  Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
  Bicket; Murphy, Iveri, Graham, Vondung, Vargas, Gradus

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