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The 2008-09 broadcast season of The Metropolitan Opera, which will kick off on November 29, 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 for Broadcast Media and through contributions from listeners worldwide.

Visit us regularly on the web for synopses, artist biographies, production photos, sound clips, background information, and teacher study guides for every opera in our broadcast season. Click here for the full 2008–09 broadcast schedule. If you would like to request a printed copy of the Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Guide, please click here.

November 29, 12:30 pm ET– La Damnation de Faust. Four Parts and Two Epilogues. Music by Hector Berlioz – Conductor: James Levine; Marguerite: Susan Graham; Faust: Marcello Giordani; Méphistophélès: John Relyea

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December 6, 11:00 am ET– Tristan und Isolde. Opera in Three Acts. Music by Richard Wagner - Conductor: Daniel Barenboim; Isolde: Katarina Dalayman; Brangäne: Michelle DeYoung; Tristan: Peter Seiffert; Kurwenal: Gerd Grochowski; King Marke: Kwangchul Youn.

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December 13, 12:30 pm ET– The Queen of Spades. Opera in Three Acts. Music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. - Conductor: Seiji Ozawa; Lisa: Maria Guleghina; Pauline: Ekaterina Semenchuk; The Countess: Felicity Palmer; Ghermann: Ben Heppner; Tomsky: Mark Delavan; Yeletsky: Vladimir Stoyanov.

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December 20, 12:00 pm ET– Thaïs. Three Acts. Music by Jules Massenet. Conductor: Jesús López-Cobos; Thaïs: Renée Fleming; Nicias: Michael Schade; Athanaël: Thomas Hampson; Palémon: Alain Vernhes.

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December 27, 1:00 pm ET– The Magic Flute, Family Production. Abbreviated Version in One Act. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Conductor: Asher Fisch; Pamina: Nicole Cabell; Queen of the Night: Cyndia Sieden; Tamino: Dimitri Pittas; Papageno: Rodion Pogossov; Sarastro: Eric Owens.

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January 3, 1:00 pm ET– La Bohème. Opera in Four Acts. Music by Giacomo Puccini. - Conductor: Frédéric Chaslin; Mimì: Maija Kovalevska; Musetta: Susanna Phillips; Rodolfo: Ramón Vargas; Marcello: Mariusz Kwiecien; Schaunard: Tommi Hakala; Colline: Oren Gradus; Benoit: Paul Plishka.

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January 10, 1:00 pm ET– La Rondine. Three Acts. Music by Giacomo Puccini. Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Magda: Angela Gheorghiu; Lisette: Lisette Oropesa; Ruggero: Roberto Alagna; Prunier: Marius Brenciu; Rambaldo: Samuel Ramey.

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January 17, 1:00 pm ET– Doctor Atomic - Archive Production. Opera in Two Acts. Music by John Adams. Conductor: Alan Gilbert; Kitty Oppenheimer: Sasha Cooke; Pasqualita: Meredith Arwady; J. Robert Oppenheimer: Gerald Finley; Edward Teller: Richard Paul Fink; General Leslie Groves: Eric Owens.

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January 24, 1:00 pm ET– Orfeo ed Euridice. Opera in Three Acts. Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Conductor: James Levine; Euridice: Danielle de Niese;
Amor: Heidi Grant Murphy; Orfeo: Stephanie Blythe.

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January 31, 1:00 pm ET– Rigoletto. Opera in Three Acts. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Riccardo Frizza; Gilda: Aleksandra Kurzak; Maddalena: Victoria Vizin; Duke: Giuseppe Filianoti; Rigoletto: Zeljko Lucic; Sparafucile: Mikhail Petrenko.

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February 7, 1:00 pm ET– Lucia di Lammermoor. Opera in Three Acts. Music by Gaetano Donizetti. Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Lucia: Anna Netrebko; Edgardo: Rolando Villazón; Enrico: Mariusz Kwiecien; Raimondo: Ildar Abdrazakov.

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February 14, 1:00 pm ET– Eugene Onegin. Opera in Three Acts. Music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Conductor: Jiri Belohlávek. Tatiana: Karita Mattila. Olga: Ekaterina Semenchuk; Lenski: Piotr Beczala; Onegin: Thomas Hampson.
Gremin: James Morris.

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February 21, 1:00 pm ET– Adriana Lecouvreur. Four Acts. Music by Francesco Cilèa. Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Adriana: Maria Guleghina; The Principessa: Olga Borodina; Maurizio: Plácido Domingo; Michonnet: Roberto Frontali.
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February 28, 1:00 pm ET– Il Trovatore. Opera in Four Acts. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda; Leonora: Sondra Radvanovsky; Azucena: Dolora Zajick; Manrico: Marcelo Álvarez; Count di Luna: Dmitri Hvorostovsky; Ferrando: Kwangchul Youn

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March 7, 1:00 pm ET– Madama Butterfly. Opera in Three Acts. Music by Giacomo Puccini. Conductor: Patrick Summers; Cio-Cio-San: Cristina Gallardo-Domas; Suzuki: Maria Zifchak; Pinkerton: Marcello Giordani; Sharpless: Dwayne Croft.

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March 14, 1:00 pm ET– Rusalka. Three Acts. Music by Antonín Dvorak. Conductor: Jiri Belohlávek; Rusalka: Renée Fleming; Foreign Princess: Christine Goerke; Jezibaba: Stephanie Blythe; Prince: Aleksandrs Antonenko; Water Sprite: Kristinn Sigmundsson.

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March 21, 1:00 pm ET– La Sonnambula. Two Acts. Music by Vincenzo Bellini. Conductor: Evelino Pidò; Amina: Natalie Dessay; Elvino: Juan Diego Flórez; Rodolfo: Michele Pertusi.

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March 28, 1:00 pm ET– Das Rheingold. Opera in Four Scenes. Music by Richard Wagner. Conductor: James Levine; Freia: Wendy Bryn Harmer; Fricka: Yvonne Naef; Erda: Jill Grove; Loge: Kim Begley; Wotan: James Morris; Alberich: Richard Paul Fink; Fasolt: Franz-Josef Selig; Fafner: John Tomlinson.

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April 4, 1:00 pm ET– L'Elisir d'amore. Opera in Two Acts. Music by Gaetano Donizetti. Conductor: Maurizio Benini; Adina: Angela Gheorghiu; Nemorino: Rolando Villazón; Belcore: Franco Vassallo; Dulcamara: Bryn Terfel.

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April 11, 12:00 pm ET– Die Walküre. Opera in Three Acts. Music by Richard Wagner. Conductor: James Levine; Brünnhilde: Christine Brewer; Sieglinde: Waltraud Meier; Fricka: Yvonne Naef; Siegmund: Johan Botha; Wotan: James Morris; Hunding: John Tomlinson.

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April 18, 12:00 pm ET– Siegfried. Opera in Three Acts. Music by Richard Wagner. Conductor: James Levine. Brünnhilde: Christine Brewer; Erda: Jill Grove.
Siegfried: Christian Franz; Mime: Gerhard Siegel; Wanderer: James Morris.

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April 25, 12:00 pm ET– Götterdämmerung. Opera in Prologue and Three Acts.
Music by Richard Wagner. Conductor: James Levine. Brünnhilde: Christine Brewer; Gutrune: Margaret Jane Wray; Waltraute: Yvonne Naef; Siegfried: Christian Franz;
Gunther: Iain Paterson; Hagen: John Tomlinson.

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The 2008–09 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 for Broadcast Media, and through contributions from listeners worldwide.

The contents of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts are copyrighted by The Metropolitan Opera. All rights are reserved. Any use or reproduction of the material therein without permission of The Metropolitan Opera is strictly prohibited and will be prosecuted.

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