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The Metropolitan Opera

 

Live broadcasts from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Saturday morning on Capital Public Radio.

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Saturday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
December through May
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Saturday, May 4, 2019

Met Opera: Aida

Anna Netrebko as Aida and Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris in Verdi's "Aida." Photo: Marty Sohl/Met Opera
 

Anna Netrebko as Aida and Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris in Verdi's "Aida." Photo: Marty Sohl/Met Opera

Aida
by Giuseppe Verdi


In a highlight of the season, soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met Aida, going toe-to-toe with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris. The cast also features Aleksandrs Antonenko as the warrior Radamès.

This grandest of grand operas features an epic backdrop for what is in essence an intimate love story. Set in ancient Egypt and packed with magnificent choruses, complex ensembles, and elaborate ballets, Aida never loses sight of its three protagonists.

The libretto indicates merely that the opera takes place in “ancient Egypt, in the time of the pharaohs.” This may sound vague, but it was a clear direction to approach the drama as myth rather than anthropology or history. The score of Aida is a sophisticated example of Italian Romanticism, imbued with a convincingly mysterious and exotic hue.

Performance from October 6, 2018.



Conductor: Nicola Luisotti



Cast:

Aida: Anna Netrebko

Amneris: Anita Rachvelishvili

Radamès: Aleksandrs Antonenko

Amonasro: Quinn Kelsey

Ramfis: Dmitry Belosselskiy

The King: Ryan Speedo Green


Start time: 10:00am on Capital Public Radio.
Approximate running time 3 hrs 36 min


Click in the "LINKS" area for more information about "Aida."


The next and final opera of the season, and the final opera in cinemas for this season, will be "Dialogues des Carmélites" by Francis Poulenc on May 11th.  New Met Opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. 
 
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  • 2021   
    • April   
      • From the House of the Dead
      • Met Opera: La Bohème
      • Met Opera: Rusalka
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Don Giovanni
      • Met Opera: Le Comte Ory
      • Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
      • Met Opera: Carmen
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Der Rosenkavalier
      • Met Opera: La Rondine
      • Met Opera: Cendrillon
      • Met Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor
    • January   
      • Met Opera: Faust
      • Met Opera: Il Trovatore
      • Met Opera: La Traviata
      • Met Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
      • Met Opera: Satyagraha
  • 2020   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: The Magic Flute
      • Met Opera: Hansel and Gretel
      • Met Opera: Fidelio
      • Met Opera: War and Peace
    • May   
      • Met Opera: Maria Stuarda
      • Met Opera: Káťa Kabanová
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Turandot
      • Met Opera: Simon Boccanegra
      • Met Opera: Tosca
      • Met Opera: Orfeo ed Euridice
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Werther
      • Met Opera: La Cenerentola
      • Met Opera: Der Fliegende Holländer
      • Met Opera: Così fan tutte
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Agrippina
      • Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
      • Met Opera: Manon
      • Met Opera: La Damnation de Faust
      • Met Opera: Porgy and Bess
    • January   
      • Met Opera: La Bohème
      • Met Opera: La Traviata
      • Met Opera: Wozzeck
      • Met Opera: Der Rosenkavalier
  • 2019   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: The Magic Flute
      • Met Opera: Macbeth
      • Met Opera: The Queen of Spades
      • Met Opera: Akhnaten
    • May   
      • Met Opera: Dialogues des Carmélites
      • Met Opera: Aida
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Götterdämmerung
      • Met Opera: La Clemenza di Tito
      • Met Opera: Siegfried
      • Met Opera: Tosca
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Die Walküre
      • Met Opera: Samson et Dalila
      • Met Opera: Falstaff
      • Met Opera: Das Rheingold
      • Met Opera: La Fille du Régiment
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Rigoletto
      • Met Opera: Don Giovanni
      • Iolanta and Bluebeard's Castle
      • Met Opera: Carmen
    • January   
      • Met Opera: Marnie
      • Met Opera: Pelléas et Mélisande
      • Met Opera: Adriana Lecouvreur
      • Met Opera: Otello
  • 2018   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: The Magic Flute
      • Met Opera: La Fanciulla del West
      • Met Opera: La Traviata
      • Met Opera: Il Trittico
      • Met Opera: Mefistofele
    • May   
      • Met Opera: Roméo et Juliette
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Cendrillon
      • Met Opera: The Exterminating Angel
      • Met Opera: Luisa Miller
      • Met Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Così fan tutte
      • Met Opera: Turandot
      • Met Opera: Elektra
      • Met Opera: Semiramide
      • Met Opera: Madama Butterfly
    • February   
      • Met Opera: La Bohème
      • Met Opera: Parsifal
      • Met Opera: L’Elisir d’Amore
      • Met Opera: Il Trovatore
    • January   
      • Met Opera: Tosca
      • Met Opera: Thaïs
      • Met Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci
      • Met Opera: Hansel and Gretel
  • 2017   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: The Merry Widow
      • Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
      • Met Opera: Norma
      • Met Opera: The Magic Flute
      • Met Opera: Requiem
    • May   
      • Met Opera: Der Rosenkavalier
      • Met Opera: Cyrano de Bergerac
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Der Fliegende Holländer
      • Met Opera: Eugene Onegin
      • Met Opera: Aida
      • Met Opera: Tristan und Isolde
      • Met Opera: Fidelio
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Idomeneo
      • Met Opera: Guillaume Tell
      • Met Opera: La Traviata
      • Met Opera: Werther
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Rusalka
      • Met Opera: I Puritani
      • Met Opera: Carmen
      • Met Opera: Rigoletto
    • January   
      • Met Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
      • Met Opera: Roméo et Juliette
      • Met Opera: La Bohème
      • Met Opera: Nabucco
  • 2016   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: L’Italiana in Algeri
      • Met Opera: Hansel and Gretel
      • Met Opera: Salome
      • Met Opera: L’Amour de Loin
      • Met Opera: Manon Lescaut
    • May   
      • Met Opera: National Council Auditions Final Concert
      • Met Opera: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Elektra
      • Met Opera: Otello
      • Met Opera: Roberto Devereux
      • Met Opera: Simon Boccanegra
      • Met Opera: Madama Butterfly
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
      • Met Opera: L’Elisir d’Amore
      • Met Opera: Don Pasquale
      • Met Opera: Manon Lescaut
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Lulu
      • Met Opera: Maria Stuarda
      • Met Opera: Il Trovatore
      • Met Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
    • January   
      • Met Opera: Turandot
      • Met Opera: Tannhäuser
      • Met Opera: The Pearl Fishers
      • Met Opera: Anna Bolena
      • Met Opera: Die Fledermaus
  • 2015   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: The Barber of Seville
      • Met Opera: La Donna del Lago
      • Met Opera: Rigoletto
      • Met Opera: La Bohème
    • May   
      • Met Opera: The Rake's Progress
      • Met Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera
    • April   
      • Met Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
      • Met Opera: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
      • Met Opera: Don Carlo
      • Met Opera: Ernani
    • March   
      • Met Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor
      • Met Opera: Manon
      • Met Opera: La Donna del Lago
      • Met Opera: Carmen
    • February   
      • Met Opera: Die Zauberflote
      • Met Opera: Don Giovanni
  • 2014   
    • December   
      • Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
      • Met Opera: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
      • Met Opera: IL Barbiere Di Siviglia (Rossini)

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