It’s Back! The Metropolitan Opera 2019-2020 Live Radio Season begins this Saturday, December 7th at 1 pm on WRUU-LP. The Met Season opens with the Philip Glass opera Akhnaten starring counter-tenor Anthony Roth Constanzo in the title role. 12/07/2019.
Sat. 1 pm ET- Dialogues des Carmélites is an opera in three acts, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, with music and libretto by Francis Poulenc, completed in 1956. The composer’s second opera, Poulenc wrote the libretto after the work of the same name by Georges Bernanos. The opera tells a fictionalised version of the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, Carmelite nuns who, in 1794 during the closing days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their vocation. The world première of the opera occurred (in Italian translation) on 26 January 1957 at La Scala in Milan. 05/11/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- Aida by Verdi.Egypt, during the reign of the pharaohs. At the royal palace in Memphis, the high priest Ramfis tells the warrior Radamès that Ethiopia is preparing another attack against Egypt. … Left alone, Aida is torn between her love for Radamès and loyalty to her native country, where her father, Amonasro, is king. 05/04/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- Götterdämmerung, is the last in Richard Wagner’s cycle of four music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of the Ring.WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 04/27/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- One of Mozart’s last operas, La clemenza di Tito (The clemency of Titus), is a story of friendship and forgiveness triumphing over jealousy and violence. The new emperor of Rome, Tito, is much loved by the Roman people, with the exception of Vitellia, the daughter of the previous emperor. 04/20/2019.
Sat. 1pm. ET- Siegfried, by Richard Wagner on the Metropolitan Opera Matinee. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. Siegfried, is the third of the four music dramas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring cycle. 04/13/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET-Tosca on the Met is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. … It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, as well as some of Puccini’s best-known lyrical arias. 04/06/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- Walküre Music drama by Richard Wagner on the Met Opera Matinee.High in the mountains, Wotan, leader of the gods, tells his warrior daughter, the Valkyrie Brünnhilde, that she must defend his mortal son Siegmund in his upcoming battle with Hunding. She leaves joyfully to do what he has asked, as Fricka, Wotan’s wife and the goddess of marriage, appears. 03/30/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- SamsonSamson and Delilah, Op. 47, is a grand opera in three acts and four scenes by Camille Saint-Saëns to a French libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire., on Metropolitan Opera Matinee. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 03/23/2019
Sat. 1 pm. ET- Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi on the Metropolitan Opera Matinee. Falstaff (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfalstaf]) is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, parts 1 and 2. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 03/16/2019
