Sat. 1 pm ET- Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Wagner’s visionary initial installment of the Ring Cycle depicts the original sin of the theft of the sacred golden treasure, the vanity of the gods, the greed of the Nibelungen, the fratricide of the giants, and the building of Valhalla. Bass-baritone Greer Grimsley sings the role of Wotan, the conflicted lord of the gods. 03/09/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard, it found favor with its Parisian audiences thanks to its comedic, yet dramatic, libretto and its beautifully written music that is both melodious and extremely difficult to sing. The opera, due to its patriotic content, was typically performed in France on Bastille Day. 03/02/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- Rigoletto (pronounced [riɡoˈletːto]) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo. 02/23/2019
Sat. 1 pm. ET Don Giovanni an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as an opera buffa. It is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer. Da Ponte’s libretto was billeat denotes a mixing of serious and comic action. Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements. 02/17/2019
Sat. 1pm ET- Iolanta & Bluebeard’s Castle The Metropolitan Opera is offering a double bill of Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle,” and Tchaikovsky’s one-act opera, “Iolanta,” Double bills of short operas are usually programmed according to musical affinity, WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 02/09/2019
Sat. 1 pm. ET – Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 02/02/2019
Sat. 1pm. ET – “Marnie” by composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping re-imagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities. A fast-moving, exhilarating story of denial and deceit, which also inspired a film by Alfred Hitchcock. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931 01/26/2019
Sat. 1 pm. ET – Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande) is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy on The Metropolitan Opera Matinee. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 01/12/2019
Sat. 1pm. ET – Adriana Lecouvreur by 19th and 20th Century Italian composer Francesco Cilea. on The Metropolitan Opera Matinee. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 01/12/2019
Sat. 1 pm. ET WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. Otello by Giuseppe Verdi based on William Shakespeare’s play. 01/05/2018
