WRTI brings you opera broadcasts presented by some of the most revered opera companies from the United States and around the world, every Saturday throughout the year at 1 p.m., including the entire Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee broadcast season.

Coming up:

September 6
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins (Double Bill)

Cast:
Danielle De Niese (Dido); Jóhann Kristinsson (Aeneas); Julie Roset (Belinda); Jasmin White (Sorceress) // Danielle De Niese (Anna I and Anna II); Kristoffer Appel (Father); Benjamin Nellemose (Brother); Mads Skovgaard Andersen (Brother); Per Hoyer (Mother)
Conductor: Geoffrey Paterson

September 13
Bavarian State Opera
Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (Double Bill)

Cast:
Yulia Matochkina (Santuzza), Ican Gyngazov (Turiddu), Rosalind Plowright (Lucia), Wolfgang Koch (Alfio), Ekaterine Buachidze (Lola) // Ailyn Pérez (Nedda), Jonas Kaufmann (Canio), Wolfgang Koch (Tonio), Andres Agudelo (Beppe), Thomas Mole (Silvio), Christian Rieger (peasant), Zachary Rioux (peasant)
Conductor: Daniele Rustioni

September 20
Bavarian State Opera
Fauré’s Pénélope

Cast: Brandon Jovanovich (Ulysse), Thomas Mole (Eumée), Loïc Felix (Antinoüs), Leigh Melrose (Eurymaque), Joel Williams (Léodès), Zachary Rioux (Ctésippe), Dafydd Jones (Pisandre)
Conductor: Susanna Malkki

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