
The Metropolitan Opera will inaugurate its 77th radio broadcast season on December 8 with Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, conducted by Louis Langrée. The 22-broadcast season will air over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network through May 3 and will include 20 live matinee opera broadcasts. Margaret Juntwait returns for her fourth season as announcer. To request a copy of the Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Guide click here.
The 2007-08 Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Season is sponsored by Toll Brothers, America’s luxury home builder®, with generous long-term support from The Annenberg Foundation and the Vincent A. Stabile Endowment Fund for Broadcast Media, and through contributions from listeners worldwide.
Scroll down 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 our broadcast season. Click here for a complete list of the 2007-2008 Metropolitan Opera broadcast season.
Met at the Movies:Enjoy front row seats for an afternoon of thrilling, world class opera at your local movie theater! The Metropolitan Opera continues its second season of live, high-definition performance transmissions to movie theaters in the MetroplexTheaters are conveniently located in neighborhoods throughout North Texas – The Parks at Arlington, North Park Center in Dallas, Webb Chapel Cinemark in Dallas, Tinseltown Movie 17 in Grapevine, Vista Ridge Mall in Lewisville, Cinemark 12 Town Center in Mansfield, Plano Legacy, Tinseltown USA in Plano and Rockwall Cinemark. For more information go to the Arts Calendar or visit the MET's website as theaters are continually being added do to high interest.

2007-08 New York Metropolitan Opera
Live Broadcast Schedule
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Iphigénie en Tauride
December 8, 2007 / 1:30 pm ET
Louis Langrée; Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, William Shimell
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Roméo et Juliette
December 15, 2007 / 1:00 pm ET
Plácido Domingo; Anna Netrebko, Isabel Leonard, Roberto Alagna, Nathan Gunn, Kristinn Sigmundsson
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War and Peace
December 22, 2007 / 12:30 pm ET
Valery Gergiev; Marina Poplovskaya, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Larisa Shevchenko, Kim Begley, Alexej Markov, Vassily Gerello, Samuel Ramey
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Hansel and Gretel
December 29, 2007 / 1:30 pm ET
Vladimir Jurowski; Christine Schäfer, Alice Coote, Rosalind Plowright, Philip Langridge, Alan Held
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Un Ballo in Maschera
January 5, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
Gianandrea Noseda; Michele Crider, Ofelia Sala, Stephanie Blythe, Salvatore Licitra, Dmitri Hvorostovsky
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Macbeth
January 12, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
James Levine; Maria Guleghina, Roberto Aronica, Lado Ataneli, John Relyea
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La Bohème - Archive Production, March 19, 1977
January 19, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
James Levine; Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti, Maralin Niska, Ingvar Wixell

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Il Barbiere di Siviglia
January 26, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
Frédéric Chaslin; Elina Garanca, Michael Schade, Franco Vassallo, Bruno Praticò, Peter Rose
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Die Walküre
February 2, 2008 / 12:30 pm ET
Loren Maazel; Lisa Gasteen, Deborah Voigt, Michelle DeYoung, Clifton Forbis, James Morris, Mikhail Petrenko
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L'Assedio di Corinto - Archive Production, April 19, 1975
February 9, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
Thomas Schippers; Beverly Sills, Shirley Verrett, Harry Theyard, Justino Díaz

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Manon Lescaut
February 16, 2008 / 1:00 pm ET
James Levine; Karita Mattila, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft
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Carmen
February 23, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
Emmanuel Villaume; Krassimira Stoyanova, Olga Borodina, Marcelo Alvarez, Lucio Gallo
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Otello
March 1, 2008 / 1:00 pm ET
Semyon Bychkov; Renée Fleming, Johan Botha, Carlo Guelfi
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Lucia di Lammermoor
March 8, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
James Levine; Natalie Dessay, Giuseppe Filianoti, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Relyea
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Peter Grimes
March 15, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
Donald Runnicles; Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, Anthony Michaels-Moore
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Tristan und Isolde
March 22, 2008 / 12:30 pm ET
James Levine; Deborah Voigt, Michelle DeYoung, Ben Heppner, Eike Wilm Schulte, Matti Salminen
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Ernani
March 29, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
Roberto Abbado; Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcello Giordani, Thomas Hampson, Ferruccio Furlanetto

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La Bohème
April 5, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
Nicola Luisotti; Angela Gheorghiu, Ainhoa Arteta, Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tézier, Quinn Kelsey, Oren Gradus, Paul Plishka
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The Gambler
April 12, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
Valery Gergiev; Olga Guryakova, Olga Savova, Larissa Diadkova, Vladimir Galouzine, Nikolai Gassiev, John Hancock, Sergei Aleksashkin
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Satyagraha
April 19, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
Dante Anzolini; Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Earle Patriarco, Alfred Walker

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La Fille du Régiment
April 26, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
Marco Armiliato; Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flórez, Alessandro Corbelli, Zoe Caldwell

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Die Entführung aus dem Serail
May 3, 2008 / 1:30 pm ET
David Robertson; Diana Damrau, Aleksandra Kurzak, Matthew Polenzani, Steve Davislim, Kristinn Sigmundsson
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