They did air a Siegfried broadcast and one other opera led by Levine that I can’t recall but these seemed to be overlooked by Sirius it seems.Īt any rate I think the blame for all of this mess lays squarely at Levine’s feet. SIRIUS XM’s Met Opera Radio channel will continue to broadcast rare archival broadcasts from the Met’s 77-year broadcast history.This is development is not new, Sirius XM Radio has not played hardly any Levine led broadcasts since December 2017. Met Opera Radio will also broadcast a special edition of the weekly program The Met on Record featuring music from the Metropolitan Opera’s latest CD, Celebrating 125 Years – Historic Met Performances 1937-2005. The Gala also marked the 40th anniversary of the Met debut of Plácido Domingo, who performed excerpts from La Fanciulla del West, Simon Boccanegra and Otello. The encore presentation includes performances by Met Opera stars Roberto Alagna, Stephanie Blythe, Natalie Dessay, Renée Fleming, Juan Diego Flórez, Angela Gheorghiu, Marcello Giordani, Maria Guleghina, Thomas Hampson, Ben Heppner, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, James Morris and Deborah Voigt. The Met’s 125th Anniversary Gala celebration, also conducted by Levine, will be rebroadcast for the Summer Encore series. Additional season highlights include Dvořák’s Rusalka starring Renée Fleming, Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur with Plácido Domingo, and the final performances of Otto Schenk’s production of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine. In addition to Doctor Atomic, all six of the Met’s new production premiere performances from the past season will be heard throughout the Summer Encores series, including such notable performances as Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust Massenet’s Thaïs Puccini’s La Rondine Verdi’s Il Trovatore and Bellini’s La Sonnambula. Robert Oppenheimer on Friday, May 29 starting at 8 pm ET. The Summer Encore series will begin with the rebroadcast of the Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams’s opera about the creation of the atomic bomb, Doctor Atomic, conducted by Alan Gilbert, and starring baritone Gerald Finley as J.

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