Classical 89 Broadcast Schedule of The Metropolitan Opera 2007-2008 Season

(Most broadcasts are at 11:30. Please note the *exceptions.)

 December 8 – IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE (Gluck) – New Production
Louis Langrée; Susan Graham (Iphigénie), Plácido Domingo (Orest), Paul Groves (Pylade), William Shimell (Thoas)

December 15 (*11 a.m.) – ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod)  HD LIVE
Plácido Domingo; Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Isabel Leonard (Stéphano), Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Nathan Gunn (Mercutio), Robert Lloyd (Frère Laurent)

December 22 – (*10:30 a.m.) – WAR AND PEACE (Prokofiev)
Valery Gergiev; Marina Poplovskaya (Natasha Rostova), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya), Larisa Shevchenko (Mme Akhrosimova), Kim Begley (Pierre Bezukhov), Alexej Markov (Prince Andrey Bolkonsky), Vassily Gerello (Napoleon), Samuel Ramey (Field-Marshal Kutuzov)

December 29 – HANSEL AND GRETEL (Humperdinck) - New Production, in English
Vladimir Jurowski; Christine Schäfer (Gretel), Alice Coote (Hansel), Rosalind Plowright (Gertrude), Philip Langridge (The Witch), Alan Held (Peter)

January 5 – UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi)
Gianandrea Noseda; Michèle Crider (Amelia), Ofelia Sala (Oscar), Stephanie Blythe (Ulrica), Salvatore Licitra (Gustav), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Anckarström)

January 12 – MACBETH (Verdi) - New Production  HD LIVE
James Levine; Maria Guleghina (Lady Macbeth), Roberto Aronica (Macduff), Lado Ataneli (Macbeth), John Relyea (Banquo)

January 19 –  LA BOHÈME (Puccini) Archive broadcast from March 19, 1977
James Levine: Renata Scotto (Mimì), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Marilin Niska (Musetta), Ingvar Wixell (Marcello), Alan Monk (Schaunard), Paul Plishka (Colline), Italo Tajo (Benoit).

January 26 – IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Rossini)
Frédéric Chaslin; Elīna Garanča (Rosina), Michael Schade (Count Almaviva), Franco Vassallo (Figaro), Bruno Praticò (Dr. Bartolo), Peter Rose (Don Basilio)

February 2 – (*10:30 a.m.) – DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner)
Lorin Maazel; Lisa Gasteen (Brünnhilde), Deborah Voigt (Sieglinde), Michelle DeYoung (Fricka), Clifton Forbis (Siegmund), James Morris (Wotan), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding)

February 9 – L’ASSEDIO DI CORINTO (Rossini) Archive broadcast from April 19, 1975
Thomas Schippers: Beverly Sills (Pamira). Shirley Verrett (Neocle), Betsy Norden (Ismene), Harry Theyard (Cleomene), Maometto (Justino Díaz).

February 16 – (*11:00 a.m.) – MANON LESCAUT (Puccini) HD LIVE
James Levine; Karita Mattila (Manon Lescaut), Marcello Giordani (des Grieux), Dwayne Croft (Lescaut), Dale Travis (Germonte)

February 23 – CARMEN (Bizet)
Emmanuel Villaume; Krassimira Stoyanova (Micaëla), Olga Borodina (Carmen), Marcelo Álvarez (Don José), Lucio Gallo (Escamillo)

 March 1 – (*11:00 a.m.) – OTELLO (Verdi)
Semyon Bychkov; Renée Fleming (Desdemona), Johan Botha (Otello), Carlo Guelfi (Iago)

 March 8 – LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti) - New Production
James Levine; Natalie Dessay (Lucia), Giuseppe Filianoti (Edgardo), Mariusz Kwiecien (Enrico), John Relyea (Raimondo)

March 15 – PETER GRIMES (Britten) - New Production HD LIVE
Donald Runnicles; Patricia Racette (Ellen Orford), Anthony Dean Griffey (Peter Grimes), Anthony Michaels-Moore (Balstrode)

March 22– (*10:30 a.m.) – TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Wagner)  HD LIVE
James Levine ; Deborah Voigt (Isolde), Michelle DeYoung (Brangäne), Ben Heppner (Tristan), Eike Wilm Schulte (Kurwenal), Matti Salminen (King Marke)

March 29 – ERNANI (Verdi)
Roberto Abbado; Sondra Radvanovsky (Elvira), Marcello Giordani (Ernani), Thomas Hampson (Don Carlo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (de Silva)

April 5 – LA BOHÈME (Puccini)  HD LIVE
Nicola Luisotti; Angela Gheorghiu (Mimì), Ainhoa Arteta (Musetta), Ramón Vargas (Rodolfo), Ludovic Tézier (Marcello), Quinn Kelsey (Schaunard), Oren Gradus (Colline), Paul Plishka (Benoit/Alcindoro)

April 12 – THE GAMBLER (Prokofiev)
Valery Gergiev; Olga Guryakova (Polina), Olga Savova (Mme Blanche), Larissa Diadkova (Grammy), Vladimir Galouzine (Alexei), Nikolai Gassiev (The Marquis), John Hancock (Mr. Astley), Sergei Aleksashkin (The General)

April 19 – SATYAGRAHA (Glass) - New Production
Dante Anzolini; Rachelle Durkin (Miss Schlesen), Richard Croft (M.K. Ghandi), Earle Patriarco (Mr. Kallenbach), Alfred Walker (Parsi Rustomji)

April 26 – LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Donizetti) - New Production HD LIVE
Marco Armiliato; Natalie Dessay (Marie), Felicity Palmer (Marquise of Berkenfeld), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Zoe Caldwell (Duchess of Krakenthorp)

 May 3 – DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (Mozart)
David Robertson; Diana Damrau (Konstanze), Aleksandra Kurzak (Blondchen), Matthew Polenzani (Belmonte), Steve Davislim (Pedrillo), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Osmin), Matthias von Stegmann (Pasha Selim)