SIRIUS XM Radio has announced that it will broadcast Metropolitan Opera beginning with Opening Night on Monday, Sept. 22. The third season of Met Opera Radio on SIRIUS will feature 127 performances broadcast live from the opera house stage. The 2008-09 season will start with the Met’s Opening Night Gala on Monday, Sept. 22, on Metropolitan Opera Radio SIRIUS channel 78. Renee Fleming will be Met Opera Radio’s Opening Night Gala star performing in some of her most acclaimed roles, beginning with Act II of Verdi’s La Traviata, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine, and continuing with Act III of Massenet’s Manon, conducted by Marco Armiliato, and the final scene of Richard Strauss’s one act opera, Capriccio, conducted by Patrick Summers.
Met Opera Radio 2008-09 schedule include every season premiere and all six of the Met’s new productions: the Met premiere of John Adams’s opera about the creation of the atomic bomb, Doctor Atomic; Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust; Massenet’s Thais; Puccini’s La Rondine; Verdi’s Il Trovatore; and Bellini’s La Sonnambula. Host Margaret Juntwait along with Will Berger will return to the Met Opera Radio channel.
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