Sat. 1 pm – George Gershwins’ “Porgy and Bess.” on the Metropolitan Opera Radio Matinee. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 02/01/2020.
Sat. 1 pm -” La Boheme ” by Giacomo Puccini on the Metropolitan Opera Matinee. One of the most known operas in the world, for its plot and its music. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 01/25/2020.
Sat. 1 pm -Verdi’s “La Traviata.” on the Metropolitan Opera Matinee. One of the most beloved operas in the world, for its plot and its music. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 01/18/20.20.
Sat. 1 pm. – Wozzeck by Alban Berg. The work is inspired by a play that is as terrifying in its plot as it is revolutionary in its structure, penned by Georg Büchner and based on a true story. Metropolitan Opera Matinee. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 01/11/2020.
Sat. 12 pm – Der Rosenkavalier (in English: The Knight of the Rose) is a comic opera by Richard Strauss. Metropolitan Opera Matinee. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931 01/04/2020.
Sat. 1 pm – Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi based on William Shakespeare’s play of the same name on The Metropolitan Opera 2019-2020 Live Radio Season. 12/21/2019.
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
