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:

Nov. 15
Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte from the Academy of Vocal Arts
John T.K. Scherch hosts this special broadcast in collaboration with AVA of their performance of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, recorded at the Helen Corning Warden Theater in February. It features the AVA Opera Orchestra conducted by Robert Kahn with Joshua Berg as Ferrando, Joshua Klein as Guglielmo, Nan Wang as Don Alfonso, Veronica Richer as Fiordiligi, Alla Yarosh as Dorabella, and Beautiful Sheriff as Despina.

Nov. 22
Vienna State Opera
Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta

Tugan Sokhiev (conductor); Sonya Yoncheva (blind daughter of King René), Ivo Stanchev (René, King of Provence), Boris Pinkhasovich (Robert, Duke of Burgundy), Dmytro Popov (Count Vaudémont), Attila Mokus (Ibn-Hakia), Daniel Jez (Alméric)

Nov. 29
Vienna State Opera
Strauss’s Arabella

Christian Thielemann (conductor); Camilla Nylund (Arabella), Sabine Devieilhe (Zdenka), Michael Volle (Mandruka), Margaret Plummer (Adelaide), Wolfgang Bankl (Count Waldner), Michael Laurenz (Matteo)

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