Metropolitan Opera's 2006-2007 Season Is Here!
The Metropolitan Opera continues its 76th radio broadcast season on Saturday, January 27th at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time with Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini—right here on KFSD-AM, a proud member of the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network. And now, with our live Internet audio stream, you can hear these broadcasts anywhere in the world. San Diego, kick back, spend a leisurely Saturday morning catching up on e-mails with coffee in hand, and enjoy the glories of opera from your computer!
The Met's 2006-2007 season provides a blend of bold new productions with many of the standards of the repertoire that you've come to love. Hear Richard Strauss' Die Ägyptische Helena; Jenufa by Leos Janáček; and a world-premiere production of The First Emperor by the Chinese-American composer Tan Dun! You can also count on the old verities, from I Puritani to Die Zauberflöte, from Madama Butterfly to Rigoletto to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, to name just a few. The 22-broadcast season continues through May 5 and will include 20 live matinee operas. Margaret Juntwait returns for her third season as announcer. Also returning this season will be the ever-popular Metropolitan Opera Quiz.
Pictured at right is the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center, New York City; click here, or click on the image to find opera synopses, biographies for singers, conductors and composers, production photos, sound clips, background information, related intermission features and teacher study guides for each opera in the Met's broadcast season. You can even submit a question that may be selected by the Met Opera staff for use on the air!
