This page itemises the surviving broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York between 1931-2005. Some of the best singers in the world performed at the Met and their broadcasts captured many singers in their most famous roles as well as others who recorded very little commercially. Sound quality is variable and some of the early off-air recordings are very noisy, but from the 1936-7 season onwards some have very good sound, having been taken from the original NBC transcription discs (rather than from off-air). Many early broadcasts are not known to survive (click here for a list of lost broadcasts), and others are incomplete, but there is still a remarkable number that exist in good sound. After 1950 all the broadcasts are known to still exist and most survive in excellent sound derived from FM or transcription sources. The Met was comparatively late to broadcast in stereo (December 1973). Major holdings of Met broadcasts (aside from the Met archive itself) can be found in the Library of Congress (which holds the original NBC discs for the 1936-7 and 1942-3 seasons and an almost complete run of tapes from 1951-2 to 1980) and the New York Public Library.

 

Where you see the word 'exists' I have not heard the recording personally but have it on strong authority that it does survive. Where you see 'commentary exists' it is believed that this is the case, though it is missing from the copy I have heard. The performances are complete unless noted. (* = rebroadcast on Sirius XM)

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1931-1932 Season

March 5, 1932
MANON (extracts 9 mins)
MOORE, GIGLI, DE LUCA, ROTHIER /HASSELMANS

1932-1933 Season

December 3, 1932
ELEKTRA (extracts 8 mins)
KAPPEL, LJUNGBERG, BRANZELL, SCHORR, LAUBENTHAL /BODANZKY

January 27, 1933

DAS RHEINGOLD (extract, final 1m40s of the opera)

FLEISCHER, BAMPTON, DOE /BODANZKY
March 3, 1933
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (extracts 25 mins act 1 - 22 mins and act 2 - 3 mins)
LEIDER, MELCHIOR, OLSZEWSKA, SCHORR, HOFMANN /BODANZKY
March 11, 1933
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (extracts 66 mins Act 1 - 25 mins, Act 2 - 8 mins, Act 3 - 35 mins with commentary before act 1 and 2 and intermission feature with Bori)
LEIDER, MELCHIOR, OLSZEWSKA, SCHÜTZENDORF, HOFMANN /BODANZKY

1933-1934 Season

January 6, 1934
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (extracts 49 mins Act 1 - 22 mins, Act 2 - 7 mins, Act 3 - 20 mins)
KAPPEL, MELCHIOR, DOE, SCHORR, HOFMANN /BODANZKY
Feb 3, 1934
DIE WALKÜRE (extracts 94 mins Act 1 - 35 mins, Act 2 - 24 mins, Act 3 - 35 mins)
LEIDER, KAPPEL, ALTHOUSE, LIST, HOFMANN, BRANZELL /BODANZKY
February 10, 1934
MERRY MOUNT (commentary after each act)
LJUNGBERG, JOHNSON, TIBBETT, SWARTHOUT, D'ANGELO /SERAFIN
March 10, 1934
PAGLIACCI
MARTINELLI, MARIO, TIBBETT, CEHANOVSKY /BELLEZZA
March 10, 1934
SALOME (commentary before and after the opera)
LJUNGBERG, LORENZ, SCHORR, MANSKI, CLEMENS /BODANZKY
March 17, 1934
PETER IBBETSON
JOHNSON, TIBBETT, BORI, SWARTHOUT, ROTHIER, BADA /SERAFIN
March 24, 1934
LOHENGRIN (commentary after each act)
MELCHIOR, RETHBERG, OLSZEWSKA, SHUTZENDORF, HOFMANN /BODANZKY
April 7, 1934
PELLEAS ET MELISANDE (tour performance from Boston, commentary before and after Acts 1 and 3, after acts 2, and act 5, 4 lucky strike commercials,)
BORI, JOHNSON, ROTHIER, PINZA, BOURSKAYA /HASSELMANS

1934-1935 Season

December 25, 1934 HANSEL UND GRETEL 5 mins of the intermission with Geradline Ferrar exist
January 5, 1935*
LA TRAVIATA (commentary before act 1, and after each act, 3 intermission features with Geraldine Ferrar)
PONSELLE, JAGEL, TIBBETT /PANIZZA
January 12, 1935
TANNHÄUSER (extracts Act 2 - 36 mins Act 3 - 52 mins with commentary after act 2 and before and after act 3 and Listerine commercial)
MELCHIOR, MUELLER, MANSKI, BONELLI, HOFMANN /BODANZKY

January 19 1935 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (30 mins of extracts from Act 2 and Act 3 exist) RETHBERG, MARTINELLI, PINZA /BELLEZZA

January 26, 1935
ROMEO ET JULIETTE (commentary after Acts 1 and 2 before and after Acts 3, 4, and 5, 1 min of the intermission with Geraldine Ferrar exists)
HACKETT, NORENA, SWARTHOUT, DE LUCA, ROTHIER /HASSELMANS
February 2, 1935
DIE WALKÜRE (extracts Act 1 complete, Act 2 10 mins; 3 mins of the intermission with Geradline Ferrar exist)
KAPPEL, FLAGSTAD, ALTHOUSE, SCHORR, OLSZEWSKA, LIST /BODANZKY
February 9, 1935
DON GIOVANNI (extracts Act 1 64 mins, Act 2 44 mins)
PINZA, PONSELLE, MUELLER, LAZZARI, FLEISCHER, SCHIPA, D'ANGELO, LIST /PANIZZA
February 16, 1935
SIMON BOCCANEGRA ?commentary exists
TIBBETT, RETHBERG, MARTINELLI, PINZA, GANDOLFI /PANIZZA
March 9, 1935
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (commentary before and after Acts 1 and 3, after Act 2; intermission feature with Geraldine Ferrar and Giovanni Martinelli; Listerine Commercial)
FLAGSTAD, MELCHIOR, BRANZELL, SCHORR, HOFMANN /BODANZKY

March 16, 1935 AIDA 3 mins of the intermission with Geradline Ferrar exist
March 23, 1935
LA BOHEME (Act 1 30 mins & Act 3 complete)
RETHBERG, JAGEL, MORGANA, DE LUCA, PICCO, PINZA /BELLEZZA

1935-1936 Season
December 21, 1935
LOHENGRIN (commentary before each act 1 and after acts 1 and 2, both intermissions act 3 missing last 8 mins - commentary only in the LOC 37 mins)
MELCHIOR, LEHMANN, LAWRENCE, SCHORR, LIST /BODANZKY
December 28, 1935
RIGOLETTO end of act 1 missing (Caro Nome) commentary after the opera
TIBBETT, PONS, JAGEL, OLHEIM, LAZARRI /PANIZZA
January 4, 1936
MIGNON (extract 3 mins)
BORI, CROOKS, PINZA, ANTOINE, OLHEIM /HASSELMANS
January 11, 1936
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG* (commentary before acts 1 and 3, and after each act)
LAWRENCE, MELCHIOR, SCHORR, MANSKI, HOFMANN, MEISLE, HABICH /BODANZKY
January 18, 1936
TANNHÄUSER commentary before act 2, after each act
MELCHIOR, FLAGSTAD, TIBBETT, LIST, HALSTEAD /BODANZKY

January 25, 1936 AIDA (2nd intermission 'A tribute to Toscanini' only - 15mins in the LOC)
February 1, 1936
CARMEN (1 hour of excerpts, Act 1 16 mins, Act 2 26 mins, Act 3 5 mins, Act 4 13 mins)
PONSELLE, KULLMAN, PINZA, FISHER /HASSELMANS
February 8, 1936
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE commentary before act 2 and after each act
FLAGSTAD, MELCHIOR, BRANZELL, SCHORR, HOFMANN /BODANZKY
February 15, 1936
IL TROVATORE (extracts Act 1 Sc 1, Act 2 Sc 1, Act 2 Sc 2, Act 3 Sc 1, Act 4 Sc 1 & 2. Total 67 mins)
MARTINELLI, RETHBERG, BONELLI, MEISLE, LAZZARI /PAPI
February 22, 1936
DIE MEISTERSINGER (commentary after each act)
SCHORR, RETHBERG, MAISON, BRANZELL, CLEMENS, HABICH, LIST /BODANZKY
February 29, 1936
PAGLIACCI
MARTINELLI, MARIO, BONELLI, CEHANOVSKY /PANIZZA
February 29, 1936
GIANNI SCHICCHI (commentary after the opera)
HUEHN, BURKE, BOURSKAVA, BENTONELLI, SYMONS, VOTIPKA /PAPI
March 7, 1936
FIDELIO (commentary after each act)
FLAGSTAD, MAISON, HOFMANN, LIST, FLEISCHER, CLEMENS /BODANZKY
March 28, 1936
CARMEN (tour performance from Boston, commentary after each act, and before act 4)
PONSELLE, MAISON, PINZA, BURKE /HASSELMANS
March 29, 1936
MANON Act 3 Sc 2 Bori farewell with tributes
BORI, CROOKS, ROTHIER – HASSELMANS

1936-1937 Season

December 21, 1936 Met opening night, 15 minute program of interviews only in the LOC

December 26, 1936
SAMSON ET DALILA* (complete with all commentary and intermissions: David Sarnoff speaks about the radio broadcasts; Malcolm LaPrade gives the geographical background of the opera) in NYPL & LOC
MAISON, WETTEGREN, PINZA, GURNEY, LIST /DE ABRAVANEL
January 2, 1937
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Edmund Pearson talks about philters, love potions and poisons; Marcia Davenport discusses Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, and Scandinavian singers) in NYPL & LOC
FLAGSTAD, MELCHIOR, THORBORG, HUEHN, HOFMANN /BODANZKY
January 9, 1937
CARMEN* (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Edward Johnson speaks about the broadcasts and the Met opera guild; Padraic Colum speaks about gypsies; Marcia Davenport discusses Nietzsche's use of Carmen to illustrate the difference of ideas between himself and Richard Wagner) in NYPL & LOC
PONSELLE, RAYNER, BODANYA, HUEHN /PAPI
January 16, 1937
DIE WALKÜRE (2 hrs of extracts from all 3 acts - NB this is the only opera of the season where the original discs are not known to survive)
LAWRENCE, LEHMANN, MELCHIOR, SCHORR, THORBORG, LIST /BODANZKY
January 23, 1937
LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN (complete with all commentary and intermission audio engineer Charles Gray and production director Herbert Liversage discuss how the operas are broadcast) in NYPL & LOC
MAISON, BOVY, TIBBETT, PETINA, BADA /DE ABRAVANEL
January 30, 1937
SIEGFRIED* (complete with all commentary and intermissions: John Erskine (Juilliard School president) discusses Wagner's Ring cycle ; Ben Grauer takes us behind the Met's curtain and tells what is happening backstage during the intermission ; Marcia Davenport discusses Wagner and the music of Siegfried) in NYPL & LOC
MELCHIOR, FLAGSTAD, LAUFKÖTTER, SCHORR, THORBORG, HABICH /BODANZKY
February 6, 1937
AIDA (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Special announcement concerning Toscanini's acceptance of David Sarnoff's invitation to return to the U.S. to direct the NBC Symphony (Marcia Davenport) ; Malcolm LaPrade speaks about the historical and geographical background of Aida; Marcia Davenport discusses Verdi and the similarities between his life and that of Richard Wagner ) in NYPL & LOC
CIGNA, MARTINELLI, CASTAGNA, MORELLI, PINZA /PANIZZA
February 13, 1937
MANON (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Lucrezia Bori reminisces about her performances of Manon; Marcia Davenport discusses multiple operatic settings of famous tales, especially Manon Lescaut; Herbert Graf discusses the art of the stage director; Marcia Davenport discusses the French school of opera) in NYPL & LOC
SAYAO, RAYNER, BONELLI, BAROMEO /ABRAVENEL
February 20, 1937
NORMA (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Marcia Davenport discusses the vocal demands of Norma in contrast to Isolde and Fidelio; Mrs. August Belmont discusses the Met Guild; Marcia Davenport discusses the requirements of good singing and mentions Lilli Lehmann) in NYPL & LOC
CIGNA, CASTAGNA, MARTINELLI, PINZA /PANIZZA
February 27, 1937
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Marcia Davenport discusses Lucia and opera in Italy) in NYPL & LOC
PONS, JAGEL, BROWNLEE, PINZA /PAPI
March 6, 1937
LA TRAVIATA (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Marcia Davenport discusses Dumas' Lady of the Camellias, the premiere of La Traviata, and costuming in opera; Critic W.J.Henderson gives a musical analysis of La Traviata; Mrs. Davenport pays tribute to Enrico Caruso) in NYPL & LOC
SAYAO, KULLMAN, BROWNLEE /PANIZZA
March 13, 1937
MIGNON (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Marcia Davenport discusses Mignon and American singers in opera) in NYPL & LOC
SWARTHOUT, HACKETT, ANTOINE, PINZA, OLHEIM, BADA /PELLETIER
March 20, 1937
FAUST (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Marcia Davenport discusses previous singers in this opera; Dr. William Lyon Phelps offers personal reflections on the Faust legend in the theatre and opera; Marcia Davenport discusses the early history of the Met) in NYPL & LOC
CROOKS, PINZA, BONELLI, JEPSON, / PELLETIER
March 27, 1937
LOHENGRIN (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Marcia Davenport discusses the impact of radio on the Met and reads letters from radio listeners) in NYPL & LOC
MAISON, FLAGSTAD, BRANZELL, HUEHN, HOFMANN /DE ABRAVANEL
April 3, 1937
DAS RHEINGOLD (tour performance from Boston, complete with all commentary and intermission: Wallace Goodrich, Music Director of the New England Conservatory of Music, discusses the history of opera in Boston; Eugene Boissevain, husband of Edna St. Vincent Millay, discusses the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals, and the possibilities of motion pictures as background for staging the difficult scenes in Wagner's Ring - NB performed in two acts, Robert Woldrop commentating not Milton Cross) in NYPL & LOC
SCHORR, BRANZELL, HABICH, MAISON, DOE, CORDON, LIST /BODANZKY
April 10, 1937
HANSEL UND GRETEL (tour performance from Boston, commentary before and after each act) this tour performance is not in either the NYPL nor the LOC
JESSNER, MARIO, DOE, MANSKI, GABOR /RIEDEL
April 10, 1937
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (tour performance from Boston, commentary before and after the opera; intermissions Milton Cross discusses the complexities of taking the Met on tour) this tour performance is not in either the NYPL nor the LOC
RETHBERG, RAYNER, MORELLI, PETTINA /PAPI
April 17, 1937
CARMEN (tour performance from Cleveland, complete with all commentary and intermissions: Artur Rodzinski speaks on music and the radio; Ohio Senator Robert Johns Bulkley speaks about opera in Cleveland; Milton Cross responds to caustic letters from listeners about the broadcast commentary) in NYPL & LOC
PONSELLE, MAISON, BURKE, HUEHN /PAPI
May 8, 1937
THE BARTERED BRIDE (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Lee Pattison discusses the spring season of the Met; John Tasker Howard discusses the background of The Bartered Bride) in NYPL & LOC
BURKE, CHAMLEE, RASELY, D'ANGELO, BROWNING /PELLETIER
May 15, 1937
MIGNON (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Pierre Key discusses French Opera; Woldrop discusses Ambroise Thomas and Mignon; Maxine Stellman and Thomas L. Thomas, winners of the Auditions of the Air are interviewed - NB. Robert Woldrop commentating not Milton Cross) in NYPL & LOC

TOUREL, TOKATYAN, ANTOINE, ROTHIER, MATYAS /PELLETIER
May 22, 1937
MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY (complete broadcast with all commentary and intermission feature: Walter Damrosch discusses his opera) in NYPL
CARRON, TRAUBEL, RASELY, ROYER, GURNEY /PELLETIER

1937-1938 Season

December 4, 1937 Manon (28 mins of intermissions and commentary only in the LOC 3rd intermission on Massenet and Wagner; 4th intermission on the coming season, closing commentary)
December 11, 1937
LA TRAVIATA (commentary before and after each act – except after act 3 and before act 4)
BOVY, MARTINI, J.C. THOMAS /PANIZZA
December 18, 1937
DIE WALKÜRE (extracts act 1, 7 mins, acts 2 & 3 complete. Commentary after act 2)
LAWRENCE, FLAGSTAD, MELCHIOR, SCHORR, THORBORG, HOFMANN /BODANZKY
December 24, 1937
HANSEL UND GRETEL (commentary after act 1 and before act 2)
JESSNER, MARIO, MANSKI, DOE, HABICH /RIEDEL
January 8, 1938
IL TROVATORE (extracts from Act 1 Sc 2, Act 3 Sc 2 and Act 4 Scs 1 & 2 total: 28 mins)
MARTINELLI, MILANOV, CASTAGNA, BONELLI, LAZZARI /PAPI
January 15, 1938
LA BOHEME (commentary after acts 2 and 4)
MOORE, LANDI, DICKSON, TAGLIABUE, CEHANOVSKY, PINZA /PAPI
January 22, 1938
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (commentary after each act)
J.C. THOMAS, PONS, LANDI, PINZA, MALATESTA, PETINA /PAPI
January 29, 1938
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (commentary after each act)
FLAGSTAD, MELCHIOR, WETTERGREN, HUEHN, LIST /BODANZKY
February 5, 1938
DER ROSENKAVALIER
THORBORG, LEHMANN, LIST, SCHORR, FISHER, DOE, MASSUE /BODANZKY
February 12, 1938
OTELLO (commentary before act 1 and after acts 1, 2, and 3, 1st intermission on the work of Herbert Graf)
MARTINELLI, RETHBERG, TIBBETT, MASSUE, VOTIPKA, /PANIZZA
February 19, 1938
LOHENGRIN (act 2 only)
MELCHIOR, FLAGSTAD, BRANZELL, HUEHN, HOFMANN /DE ABRAVANEL
February 26, 1938
AIDA (10 mins from act 1 and 18 mins from 2, commentary before & after act 2 - in LOC)
MILANOV, MARTINELLI/JAGEL, CASTAGNA, TAGLIABUE, PINZA /PAPI
March 5, 1938
RIGOLETTO (12 mins of act 1 including opening & closing commentary, 10 mins of act 2,2 mins of act 3, 4 mins of act 4 total 30 mins)
TAGLIABUE, SAYAO, KIEPURA, PINZA, PETINA /PANIZZA
March 19, 1938
CARMEN (24 mins from Acts 1 and 2)
CASTAGNA, MAISON, FISHER, BROWNLEE /PAPI
April 15, 1938
PARSIFAL (Commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Milton Cross discusses the story of Parsifal (partial))
MELCHIOR, FLAGSTAD, SCHORR, LIST, GABOR /BODANZKY, LEINSDORF
April 16, 1938
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE* (commentary after act 2 and before act 3)
FLAGSTAD, MELCHIOR, BRANZELL, HUEHN, LIST /BODANZKY


1938-1939 Season
November 26, 1938
ORFEO ED ERIDICE (commentary before acts 1 and 4 and after each act)
THORBORG, JESSNER, MOREL /BODANZKY
December 3, 1938
OTELLO
MARTINELLI, CANIGLIA, TIBBETT, VOTIPKA, DE PAOLIS /PANIZZA
December 10, 1938
SIEGFRIED (Extracts from Act 1 (10 mins) and Act 3 (44 min) - commentary after act 3)
HARTMANN, FLAGSTAD, WITTE, SCHORR, KASKAS, VOGEL /BODANZKY
December 17, 1938
MIGNON commentary before acts 1 & 2 and after each act; 1st intermission Milton Cross discusses the opera - in NYPL & LOC
STEVENS, CROOKS, ANTOINE, PINZA, OLHEIM /PELLETIER

December 24, 1938

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR [Act 1 final 15 mins, Act 2 32 mins, Act 3 37 mins with commentary after acts 1 and 3 and between some scenes]
PONS, MASINI, TAGLIABUE, PINZA /PAPI
December 31, 1938
FIDELIO commentary between scenes
FLAGSTAD, MAISON, LIST, SCHORR, FARELL, LAUFKÖTTER /BODAZKY
January 7, 1939
DER ROSENKAVALIER commentary after act 1, partial first intermission Lotte Lehmann talks about the Marschallin
STEVENS, LEHMANN, LIST, FARELL, SCHORR, MASSUE, DOE /BODANZKY

January 14, 1939

DON GIOVANNI (extracts totalling 1hr 40 exist in the LOC [Act 1 - 1 hr; Act 2 - 40 mins] with commentary between scenes) BROWNLEE, CROOKS, RETHBERG /PELLETIER

January 21, 1939
SIMON BOCCANEGRA
TIBBETT, RETHBERG, MARTINELLI, PINZA, WARREN /PANIZZA
January 28, 1939
LOUISE [extracts from noisy discs totalling 90 minutes: Act 1 (near complete 36 mins) Act 2 (1 minute), Act 3 (30 minutes) and Act 4 (22 minutes), with commentary before act 3 and after acts 1 & 4.]
MOORE, MAISON, DOE, PINZA /PANIZZA
February 4, 1939
AIDA (extracts from Acts 3, final 15 mins & 4, final 8 mins, commentary after act 3, intermission in LOC)
MILANOV, GIGLI, CASTAGNA, TAGLIABUE, PINZA /PANIZZA

February 11, 1939 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA THOMAS, SAYAO, MARTINI /PAPI (opening 27 mins of act 1, 12 min extract from Act 2 in LOC)

February 18, 1939 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE FLAGSTAD, MELCHIOR /BODANZKY (Act 1 Sc 2 (15 mins) and Act 1 sc 5 [final 15mins of act] in LOC)
February 25, 1939
MANON commentary before acts 1 & 3, after each act, - in NYPL & LOC
KIEPURA, BROWNLEE, SAYAO /PELLETIER
March 4, 1939
IL TROVATORE (extracts Act 1 Sc 2, 4 mins, Act 2 Sc 1, 5 mins, Act 3 Sc 1, 5 mins, Act 3 Sc 2, 5 mins, Act 4 Sc 2, 4 mins. Total 24 mins)
MARTINELLI, MILANOV, CASTAGNA, BONELLI, LAZZARI /PAPI
March 11, 1939
RIGOLETTO (10 mins of 2nd intermission on 'The Magic of Radio' in LOC)
TIBBETT, PONS, KIEPURA, OLHEIM, LAZZARI /PAPI
March 25, 1939
TANNHÄUSER (tour performance from Boston, extracts acts 2, 27 mins and 3, 22 mins - commentary after act 3)
MELCHIOR, FLAGSTAD, THORBORG, JANSSEN, LIST /LEINSDORF
April 8, 1939
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE commentary after acts 2 & 3 - in NYPL & LOC
FLAGSTAD, MELCHIOR, THORBORG, JANSSEN, LIST /BODANZKY
May 4, 1939
DIE MEISTERSINGER extracts exist
SCHORR, RETHBERG, KULLMAN, DOE, LAUFKÖTTER, GABOR, LIST/BODANZKY
May 12, 1939
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Prologue only broadcast, 31 mins, commentary before and after the prologue)
FLAGSTAD, MELCHIOR /BODANZKY

1939-1940 Season
December 2, 1939
DIE MEISTERSINGER (commentary before acts 1 & 3 after each act; 2nd intermission appeal by the Met Opera Guild 10 mins [in LOC])
SCHORR, JESSNER, KULLMAN, OLITZKI, BRANZELL, LAUFKÖTTER, LIST /LEINSDORF
December 9, 1939
BORIS GODUNOV (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st and 2nd intermissions talk about the opera, 3rd intermission appeal by the Met Opera Guild with Mrs Belmont, Mr Johnson, and Mrs Witherspoon) in NYPL & LOC
PINZA, DE PAOLIS, MOSCONA, KULLMAN, THORBORG, WARREN, CORDON /PANIZZA
December 16, 1939
TANNHÄUSER (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission appeal by the Met Opera Guild with Mrs Belmont and Mr Cordon; 2nd intermission talk about the opera) in NYPL & LOC
LAHOLM, FLAGSTAD, PAULY, JANSSEN, LIST /LEINSDORF
December 23, 1939
LA TRAVIATA (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission on Helen Jepson; 2nd intermission appeal by the Met Opera Guild; 3rd intermission on Tibbett) in NYPL & LOC
JEPSON, CROOKS, TIBBETT /PANIZZA
December 30, 1939
LA GIOCONDA (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st and 3rd intermissions talk about the opera, 2nd intermission appeal by the Met Opera Guild)
MILANOV, MARTINELLI, CASTAGNA, KASKAS, MORELLI, MOSCONA /PANIZZA
January 6, 1940
LAKME (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission talk about the opera, 2nd intermission appeal by the Met Opera Guild) in NYPL & LOC
PONS, TOKATYAN, PETINA, CEHANOVSKY, PINZA /PELLETIER
January 13, 1940
MANON (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st and 3rd intermissions talk about the opera, 2nd intermission appeal by the Met Opera Guild) in NYPL & LOC
MOORE, CROOKS, BROWNLEE, MOSCONA /PELLETIER
January 19, 1940
AIDA (act 2 only broadcast as part of Music Appreciation Hour, with commentary in NYPL & LOC)
BAMPTON, CARRON, CASTAGNA, WARREN / PANIZZA
January 20, 1940
ORFEO ED EURIDICE (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st and 2nd intermissions talk about the opera, 3rd intermission appeal by the Met Opera Guild) in NYPL & LOC
THORBORG, NOVOTNA, FARELL /LEINSDORF
January 27, 1940
LOHENGRIN (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st and 2nd intermissions appeals by the Met Opera Guild, the second one with Bori)
MELCHIOR, RETHBERG, THORBORG, HEUHN, LIST /LEINSDORF
February 3, 1940
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission appeal by the Met Opera Guild and 2nd intermission talk about the opera) in LOC
PONS, JAGEL, BONELLI, LAZZARI /PAPI
February 10, 1940
LA BOHEME (commentary before act 1, after acts 1, 2 and 3; 5 minute intermission feature about De Luca)
SAYAO, TOKATYAN, DICKEY, DE LUCA, CEHANOVSKY, PINZA /PAPI
February 17, 1940
DIE WALKÜRE* (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st and 2nd intermissions appeals by the Met Opera Guild, the first with Flagstad and Melchior the second one with Mayor La Guardia - in LOC)
FLAGSTAD, LAWRENCE, MELCHIOR, HUEHN, BRANZELL, LIST /LEINSDORF
February 24, 1940
OTELLO* (commentary after act 4) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL - last 30 mins only in LOC
MARTINELLI, RETHBERG, TIBBETT, VOTIPKA, DE PAOLIS /PANIZZA
March 2, 1940
AIDA (commentary before and after each act and between scenes) complete broadcast without intermissions in NYPL
BAMPTON, CARRON, CASTAGNA, WARREN, PINZA /PANIZZA
March 9, 1940
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (commentary before and after each act) LOC T5174
PINZA, SAYAO, RETHBERG, BROWNLEE, NOVOTNA, LAZZARI, PETINA /PANIZZA
March 10, 1940
FIRST TELEVISION SPECIAL (commentary throughout)
JOHNSON, CASTAGNA, JAGEL, ALBANESE, WARREN, BURKE, TOKATYAN, BONELLI /ST. LEGER, NBC ORCHESTRA
March 12, 1940
RIGOLETTO (extracts 8 mins special broadcast)
DE LUCA, PONS /PAPI
March 16, 1940
FAUST(complete with all commentary and intermissions; all intermissions are appeals by the Met Opera Guild)
CROOKS, JEPSON, PINZA, WARREN, BROWNING /PELLETIER
March 23, 1940
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st and 2nd intermissions appeals by the Met Opera Guild)
FLAGSTAD, MELCHIOR, THORBORG, HUEHN, LIST /LEINSDORF
March 30, 1940
DIE WALKÜRE (tour performance from Boston, complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st and 2nd intermissions appeals by the Met Opera Guild; first with Marjorie Lawrence, the second with Serge Koussevitzky - gap in Act 3 in all copies heard) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
LAWRENCE, LEHMANN, MELCHIOR, SCHORR, LIST, THORBORG /LEINSDORF
April 6, 1940
FAUST (tour performance from Boston, complete with all commentary and intermissions;1st intermission talk on the opera, 2nd & 3rd intermissions appeals by the Met Opera Guild with Gladys Swarthout then with Richard Crooks) in NYPL & LOC
CROOKS, JEPSON, PINZA, WARREN, OLHEIM /PELLETIER
April 13, 1940
LA TRAVIATA (tour performance from Cleveland, complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission discusses the Met tour; 2nd intermission appeal by the Met opera guild with Irene Wicker; 3rd intermission talk by David Sarnoff on the met campaign) in NYPL & LOC
JEPSON, CROOKS, BROWNLEE /PANIZZA


1940-1941 Season
December 7, 1940
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (complete with all commentary and intermission features: 1st intermission 'At home with the Metropolitan Opera Guild' Mrs. August Belmont thanks the audience for its contributions to the Opera Fund; speeches by Lucrezia Bori, partially in Spanish, Edward Johnson, George A. Sloan, and Texaco Co. President W. S. S. Rodgers; 2nd intermission the 'Opera question forum' with Gladys Swarthout, Olin Downes, and Lawrence Tibbett; 3rd intermission 'Our American Way of Living' National Council of Women President Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan welcomes Herbert Hoover who talks on Our American Democracy) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
PINZA, ALBANESE, RETHBERG, BROWNLEE, NOVOTNA, BACCALONI, PETINA /PANIZZA
December 14, 1940
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* (commentary before and after each act, plus the first 3 intermissions features; 1st intermission 'Letters'; 2nd intermission 'At home with the Metropolitan Opera Guild' Mrs. August Belmont speaks with Frank St. Leger, Dr Herbert Graf and Risë Stevens; 3rd intermission 'The Opera Question Forum' with Jarmila Novotna, Frank St. Leger, critic Samuel Chotzinoff) NB the 4th intermission feature 'Our American Way of Living' where Dr Abraham Flexner talks on American Freedom does not seem to have survived.
BJÖRLING, MILANOV, SVED, CASTAGNA, ANDREVA /PANIZZA
December 21, 1940
DON PASQUALE* (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission 'Metropolitan Opera Guild at home' Mrs. August Belmont speaks with Lily Pons; 'Opera question forum' with Helen Jepson, Wilfred Pelletier, & critic R. B. Cochran; 2nd intermission 'Our American way of living' National Council of Women president Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan welcomes playwright Robert E. Sherwood) intermission features in the LOC
BACCALONI, SAYAO, MARTINI, VALENTINO /PAPI
December 28, 1940
LE FILLE DU REGIMENT* (complete with all commentary and intermission features: 1st intermission 'Opera Question Forum' with Helen Traubel, Armand Tokatyan, and book publisher Richard L. Simo; 2nd intermission 'Our American way of living' National Council of Women president Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan welcomes University of Chicago president Dr. Robert M. Hutchins; 'Metropolitan Opera Guild at home' Guild vice-chairman Mrs. William Barclay Parsons Jr. interviews chorus master Fausto Cleva and choristers Betty Diggett and Eloi Grimard) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & LOC
PONS, JOBIN, PETINA, BACCALONI /PAPI
January 4, 1941
TANNHÄUSER (complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission 'Opera question forum' with Frances Alda, Giovanni Martinelli, and Herman Devriès who has a cold, Madame Devriès answers for him; 2nd intermission 'Our American way of living' National Council of Women president Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan welcomes Minister to Norway Mrs. J. Borden Harriman who talks on Our American Home; 'Metropolitan Opera Guild at home' Guild secretary Mr. Thayer Cummings welcomes Wilfrid Pelletier, Rose Bampton, and John Carter to discuss the career of an opera singer) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & LOC
MELCHIOR, FLAGSTAD, THORBORG, JANSSEN, LIST /LEINSDORF
January 11, 1941
IL TROVATORE (complete with all commentary and intermission features: 1st intermission 'Metropolitan Opera Guild at home' Mrs. August Belmont speaks with costume designer Mary Percy Schenck and Louis D'Angelo about costumes; 2nd intermission 'Opera question forum' with Richard Bonelli, Hilda Burke, and Dr. John Erskine; 3rd intermission 'Our American way of living' National Council of Women president Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan introduces General Electric chairman Philip D. Reed, who speaks about American initiative.) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL, intermissions in LOC
BJÖRLING, GRECO, CASTAGNA, VALENTINO, MOSCONA /CALUSIO
January 18, 1941
OTELLO (complete with all commentary and intermission features: 1st intermission 'Metropolitan Opera Guild at Home' Mrs. Oswald B. Lord and Milton Cross discuss broadcasting from the Met with director Herbert liversage, Audio engineer Tony Hudson, and backstage assistant Deveer Engelbach; 2nd intermission 'Opera Question Forum' with Doris Doe, John Brownlee, and Sigmund Spaeth; 3rd intermission Our American way of Living: Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan introduces Mrs. Thomas Parran, wife of the U.S. Surgeon General, who speaks on longer life) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL, part of intermissions in LOC
MARTINELLI, ROMAN, TIBBETT, VOTIPKA, DE PAOLIS/PANIZZA
January 25, 1941
MADAMA BUTTERFLY (commentary before and after each act, but missing synopses, with intermission features: 1st intermission 'Opera Question Forum' with Eric Leinsdorf, Bruna Castagna, Frank Chapman; 2nd intermission Our American Way of Living Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan introduces poet Carl Sandberg who talks on the Soul of the People; 'Metropolitan Opera Guild at home' Mrs John T. Lawrence talks with Lawrence Tibbett and Wig Maker Ira Sens
ALBANESE, TOKATYAN, BROWNING, BROWNLEE, DE PAOLIS /PAPI
February 1, 1941
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA*
ROMAN, JAGEL, WARREN, KASKAS /CALUSIO
February 1, 1941
PAGLIACCI* (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission 'Opera Question Forum' with May Peterson, Lauritz Melchior, and Leonard Liebling; 2nd intermission 'Our American way of Living' Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan introduces Sadie Orr Dunbar, President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, who speaks on women in America; Milton Cross discusses the Metropolitan Opera Guild) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL; intermissions only in LOC RWA 2028, 2029
MARTINELLI, GRECO, TIBBETT, VALENTINO /CALUSIO
February 8, 1941
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (complete with all commentary and intermission features: 1st intermission 'Opera question forum' with Elisabeth Rethberg, Charles Kullman, and Pitts Sanborn; 2nd intermission 'Our American way of living' Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan introduces David Sarnoff who speaks about American progress in communications; 'Metropolitan Opera Guild at home' Mrs. August Belmont and Walter Damrosch discuss Wagner performances by the Met) complete broadcast in NYPL & LOC
MELCHIOR, FLAGSTAD, THORBORG, HUEHN, KIPNIS /LEINSDORF
February 15, 1941
L'AMORE DEI TRE RE (complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermisison 'Opera question forum' with soprano Marjorie Lawrence, baritone Franceso Valentino, and music critic Alexander Williams'; 2nd intermisison 'Our American way of living' Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan introduces Dr. Robert A. Millikan, scientist and head of California Tech speaking on inventive fertility; 'Metropolitan Opera Guild at home' with soprano Jarmila Navotna, baritone Julius Huehn, and conductor Bruno Walter) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & LOC
MOORE, KULLMAN, BONELLI, PINZA /MONTEMEZZI
February 21, 1941
CARMEN* (complete act 2 only was broadcast as part of the NBC Music Appreciation Hour, with commentary before and after the act) in the LOC
SWARTHOUT, JOBIN, ALBANESE, WARREN /PELLETIER
February 22, 1941
FIDELIO* (complete with all commentary and intermission 'Opera question forum' with Rose Bampton, Frederick Jagel, and Carleton S. Smith) complete broadcast with intermission in NYPL & LOC
FLAGSTAD, MAISON, HUEHN, FARELL, KIPNIS, LAUFKÖTTER /WALTER
March 1, 1941
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission 'Opera Question Forum' with Edward Johnson, Earl R. Lewis and Eric T. Clark; 2nd intermission 'Our American Way of Living' Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan introduces Walt Disney who speaks on Our American Culture; 'Metropolitan Opera Guild at home' with soprano Risë Stevens) intermission features in the LOC
J.C. THOMAS, TUMINIA, LANDI, BACCALONI, PINZA, PETINA /PAPI
March 8, 1941
ALCESTIS* (complete with all commentary and intermission; 1st intermission 'Opera Question Forum' with Queena Mario, Henry Pleasants, and Arthur Carron; 2nd intermission 'Our American Way of Living' Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan introduces National Association of Manufacturers chairman H.W. Prentis, Jr., who speaks about American business; 'Metropolitan Opera Guild at home' Mrs. August Belmont speaks with Karin Branzell and Erich Leinsdorf) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & LOC
BAMPTON, MAISON, WARREN /PANIZZA
March 15, 1941
CARMEN* (complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission 'Metropolitan Opera Guild at home' Mrs. Walter Sans Marvin speaks with Florence Easton and Earl R Lewis Assistant General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera; 2nd intermission 'Opera Question Forum' with Tito Schipa, Anna Kaskas, and Frances Robinson Duff; 3rd intermission 'Our American Way of Living' Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan introduces Dr Carl Compton, President of MIT talking on Our American Tomorrow) intermission features in the LOC
SWARTHOUT, KULLMAN, ALBANESE, WARREN /PELLETIER
March 22, 1941
AIDA (commentary before and after each act, plus intermissions: 1st intermission 'Our American Way of Living' Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan introduces Lily Pons who talks on Why I Became an American Citizen; 2nd intermission 'Opera Question Forum' with Josephine Tuminia, Virgil Thompson, and Frank Black) the final intermission featuring goodbye messages from George Sloan, Mrs August Belmont, and W. S. S. Rogers does not appear to exist.
ROMAN, MARTINELLI, CASTAGNA, WARREN, PINZA /PANIZZA

1941-42 Season

November 29, 1941
LA TRAVIATA commentary before acts 1, 2, and 4, after acts 1 & 4, opera quiz in the LOC
NOVOTNA, PEERCE, TIBBETT /PANIZZA
December 6, 1941
DIE WALKÜRE* (commentary before acts 1 & after act 2)
TRAUBEL, VARNAY, MELCHIOR, SCHORR, THORBORG, KIPNIS /LEINSDORF
December 13, 1941
SAMSON ET DALILA (commentary after each act) in LOC
STEVENS, MAISON, WARREN, CORDON, MOSCONA /PELLETIER
December 20, 1941
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO extracts exist
PINZA, SAYAO, RETHBERG, BROWNLEE, STEVENS, PECHNER, PETINA /PANIZZA
December 27, 1941
LAKME (commentary before and after each act) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
PONS, JOBIN, PINZA, PETINA, CEHANOVSKY /PELLETIER
January 3, 1942
L'ELISIR D'AMORE (commentary before act 1 and act 3, and after each act)
LANDI, SAYAO, VALENTINO, BACCALONI /PANIZZA
January 10, 1942
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
KULLMAN, NOVOTNA, BROWNLEE, BOK, KIPNIS, BODANYA, LAUFKÖTTER /WALTER
January 17, 1942
LOHENGRIN brief commentary before acts 1 and 2, after each act
MELCHIOR, VARNAY, THORBORG, JANSSEN, WARREN /LEINSDORF
January 24, 1942
CARMEN (commentary after each act; Intermission: Metropolitan Opera Guild at Home - Lucrezia Bori interviews both Rosa Ponselle and Ruth Hall about opera singer Emma Calvé.)
DJANEL, KULLMAN, ALBANESE, WARREN /BEECHAM
January 31, 1942
RIGOLETTO commentary after acts 3 & 4
WEEDE, REGGIANI, LANDI, CASTAGNA, MOSCONA / PANIZZA
February 7, 1942
TOSCA commentary after each act Intermission: Metropolitan Opera Guild at Home - Mrs. August Belmont interviews soprano, Jarmilla Novotna

MOORE, JAGEL, SVED /PANIZZA
February 14, 1942
TANNHÄUSER [Acts 1 and 2 (14 discs) in the Rhodes collection; 5 discs in Buchsbaum collection], commentary after each act
MELCHIOR, VARNAY, THORBORG, JANSSEN, KIPNIS /LEINSDORF
February 21, 1942
AIDA [17 discs in Rhodes collection, perhaps complete; 4 discs in Buchsbaum collection] incomplete, 1hr 57, missing most of the Triumphal Scene and the final scene, commentary before act 1 and after acts 1 and 3
GRECO, JAGEL, CASTAGNA, J.C. THOMAS, MOSCONA /BREISACH
February 28, 1942
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA in LOC
MARTINELLI, ROMAN, BONELLI, CASTAGNA, ANTOINE /PANIZZA
March 7, 1942
DON GIOVANNI* commentary before both acts, after act 2, and between scenes; complete broadcast without intermissions in NYPL in LOC
PINZA, BAMPTON, NOVOTNA, KIPNIS, SAYAO, KULLMAN, HARRELL, CORDON /WALTER
March 14, 1942
FAUST (106 mins of extracts; 23 mins of act 2; 49 mins of Act 3, Act 4 Sc 1, 8 mins, Act 4 Sc 2, 5 mins, and Act 5 Sc 2, 21 mins, with commentary after act 5) 5 discs in Buchsbaum collection but now missing
KULLMAN, ALBANESE, CORDON, WARREN, BROWNING /BEECHAM


1942-43 Season
November 28, 1942
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (commentary in Spanish before and after each act, in English before and after act 1, after act 2, 2nd intermission Victory Rally (13 mins)) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & in LOC
PONS, PEERCE, VALENTINO, MOSCONA /ST. LEGER
December 5, 1942
LA TRAVIATA (commentary in Spanish before and after each act; Intermission - Metropolitan Opera Guild at Home with Virginia Gildersleeve and Gladys Swarthout) in LOC
ALBANESE, KULLMAN, TIBBETT /SODERO
December 12, 1942
LA BOHEME (commentary before and after each act)
MOORE, JAGEL, GREER, VALENTINO, ENGELMAN, PINZA /SODERO
December 19, 1942
TANNHÄUSER (commentary in Spanish before and after each act; commentary in English before and after each act, 2nd intermission Victory Rally) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & in LOC
MELCHIOR, TRAUBEL, THORBORG, JANSSEN, KIPNIS /SZELL
December 26, 1942
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE in LOC (commentary in Spanish throughout)
KULLMAN, NOVOTNA, BROWNLEE, ANTOINE, PINZA, RAYMONDI, GARRIS /WALTER
January 2, 1943
LOHENGRIN* (commentary in Spanish before and after each act) complete broadcast without intermissions in NYPL
MELCHIOR, VARNAY, THORBORG, JANSSEN, SVED /LEINSDORF
January 9, 1943
LAKME (commentary in Spanish before and after each act) complete broadcast without intermissions in NYPL in LOC
PONS, GERARD, OLHEIM, HARRELL, CORDON /PELLETIER
January 16, 1943
MANON (commentary in Spanish before and after each act) complete broadcast without intermissions in NYPL
SAYAO, KULLMAN, BROWNLEE, MOSCONA /BEECHAM
January 23, 1943
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* (commentary in Spanish before and after each act and between scenes) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL including Victory Rally
ROMAN, JAGEL, TIBBETT, PINZA, PETINA, BACCALONI /WALTER
January 30, 1943
FAUST* (commentary in Spanish before and after each act and between scenes) complete broadcast without intermissions in NYPL
JOBIN, ALBANESE, PINZA, J.C. THOMAS, BROWNING /BEECHAM
February 6, 1943
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE commentary in Spanish before and after each act - complete broadcast without intermissions in NYPL & LOC
MELCHIOR, TRAUBEL, THORBORG, HUEHN, KIPNIS /LEINSDORF
February 13, 1943
BORIS GODUNOV (commentary in Spanish before and after each act except before act 1) in English after acts 1, 3 and 4, before acts 2, 3 and 4, between scenes in act 3 and 4; 1st intermission Column of the Air on backstage staff; 2nd intermission Victory Rally a tribute to the Soviet Union with Bruno Walter; 3rd intermission Opera Quiz (complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & in LOC)
KIPNIS, DE PAOLIS, MOSCONA, MAISON, THORBORG, WARREN, CORDON /SZELL
February 20, 1943
LOUISE commentary in Spanish before and after each act; in English complete with 1st intermission Column of the Air on the premiere of Barber of Seville; 2nd intermission Victory Rally with Rene Maison but missing 3rd intermission Opera Quiz [complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL including Victory Rally in LOC]
MOORE, JOBIN, DOE, PINZA /BEECHAM
February 27, 1943
DIE WALKÜRE (commentary in Spanish before and after each act) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & LOC
TRAUBEL, BAMPTON, MELCHIOR, HUEHN, BRANZELL, LIST /LEINSDORF
March 6, 1943
AIDA (commentary in Spanish before act 1 and after each act, also in English, after act 3, before during and after act 4) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & LOC including Victory Rally
MILANOV, MARTINELLI, CASTAGNA, BONELLI, CORDON /PELLETIER
March 13, 1943
IL TROVATORE complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Opera column of the air (Milton Cross discusses opera in the U.S., the Academy of Music vs. the Metropolitan Opera, Alexander Kipnis, and Emanuel List) ; 2nd intermission Opera victory rally (Mrs. Joseph R. Truesdale reads a letter from Lauritz Melchior and introduces Charles Kullman, Rally chairman, former U.S. Minister to Denmark Joseph C. Grew, and Danish Minister to the U.S. Henrik Kaufmann) ; 3rd intermisison Opera forum quiz (Olin Downes questions Carlos Chavez, Robert Lawrence, and Sigmund Spaeth) in NYPL & LOC (also commentary in Spanish before and after each act)
CARRON, ROMAN, THORBORG, VALENTINO, MOSCONA /SODERO
March 20, 1943
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (commentary in Spanish before and after the opera) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & LOC
MILANOV, JAGEL, KASKAS, VALENTINO /SODERO
March 20, 1943
PAGLIACCI (commentary in Spanish before and after each act) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & LOC
MARTINELLI, FARELL, WARREN, CASSEL /SORDERO
March 27, 1943
CARMEN (tour performance from Chicago, nearly complete commentary (some synopses truncated) with intermissions: 1st intermission Opera victory rally (Abner J. Stillwell introduces Edward Johnson, host; Illinois governor Dwight H. Green, rally chairman, and Northwestern University president Franklyn B. Snyder, featured speakers) ; 2nd intermission Opera forum quiz (Olin Downes questions Rosa Raisa, Rudolf Ganz, and Sigmund Spaeth) ; 3rd intermission Column of the air (Milton Cross discusses the Met's tours, opera in Chicago, Carmen, and Lily Djanel)) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & LOC
DJANEL, JOBIN, ALBANESE, WARREN /BEECHAM
April 3, 1943
DON GIOVANNI tour performance from Chicago, commentary after both acts
PINZA, MILANOV, NOVOTNA, BACCALONI, SAYAO, MELTON, HARRELL, CORDON /BREISACH
April 10, 1943
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (tour performance from Cleveland, complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Opera victory rally Norman Cordon, host, introduces Thomas H. Sidlow, rally chairman, Cleveland mayor Frank J. Lausche, and Ohio governor John W. Bricker; 2nd intermission Opera forum quiz Olin Downes questions Arthur Loesser, Herbert Elwell, and Robert Lawrence ) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & LOC
BROWNLEE, SAYAO, MARTINI, BACCALONI, PINZA, PETINA /ST. LEGER
April 17, 1943
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (commentary in Spanish before and after each act; complete in English with 1st intermission Column of the Air with Milton Cross and Lawrence Tibbett, 2nd intermission Opera victory rally - George Szell introduces Czech representatives but missing 3rd intermission Opera Quiz ) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL & LOC
PINZA, SAYAO, STEBER, BROWNLEE, NOVOTNA, BACCALONI, PETINA /BREISACH
April 24, 1943
LA TRAVIATA (commentary in Spanish before and after each act ) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL including Victory Rally
SAYAO, KULLMAN, WARREN /SODERO

1943-44 Season
November 27, 1943
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (commentary before act 1 sc 2, after prologue, Act 1, act 2 sc 2, and act 3)
ROMAN, JAGEL, TIBBETT, PINZA, BACCALONI, KASKAS /WALTER
December 4, 1943
BORIS GODUNOV in LOC
PINZA, DE PAOLIS, MOSCONA, TOKATYAN, THORBORG, WARREN, BACCALONI /SZELL
December 11, 1943
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (acts 2 and 3 only commentary in Portuguese before and after both acts - in LOC part of Act 1 in Rhodes collection on 2 discs)
TRAUBEL, MELCHIOR, THORBORG, JANSSEN, CORDON /BEECHAM
December 18, 1943
RIGOLETTO in LOC
WARREN, PONS, KULLMAN, KASKAS, MOSCONA /SODERO
December 25, 1943
MIGNON (commentary before acts 1 and 3 in Spanish and after final act in English)
STEVENS, MELTON, MUNSEL, CORDON, BROWNING /BEECHAM
January 1, 1944
LA TRAVIATA (commentary before and after each act) in LOC
ALBANESE, PEERCE, TIBBETT /SODERO
January 8, 1944
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (commentary at the end of the opera) in LOC
PONS, MELTON, WARREN, MOSCONA /SODERO
January 15, 1944
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA commentary exists in LOC
PEERCE, MILANOV, WARREN, THORBORG, GREER /WALTER
January 22, 1944
CARMEN (commentary before and after each act, except before act 4)
DJANEL, JOBIN, CONNER, SVED /BEECHAM
January 29, 1944
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO in LOC
PINZA, SAYAO, STEBER, BROWNLEE, NOVOTNA, BACCALONI, PETINA /WALTER
February 5, 1944
TANNHÄUSER
MELCHIOR, VARNAY, LAWRENCE, HUEHN, KIPNIS /BREISACH
February 12, 1944
NORMA commentary before act 1, after acts 2 and 3, complete broadcast with partial intermissions in NYPL part of act 3 not broadcast due to message from President Roosevelt
MILANOV, CASTAGNA, JAGEL, LAZZARI /SODERO
February 19, 1944
DER ROSENKAVALIER commentary before act 1, after each act, part of Victory Rally. Complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
NOVOTNA, JESSNER, LIST, CONNER, OLITZKI, GLAZ, BAUM /SZELL
February 26, 1944
LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN in LOC commentary before the prologue and act 1, after acts 1, 2 and the epilogue
JOBIN, MUNSEL, DJANEL, NOVOTNA, PINZA, SINGHER, BROWNING, PINZA, OLIVIERO /BEECHAM
March 4, 1944
LA BOHEME
SAYAO, MARTINI, CARROLL, BROWNLEE, CEHANOVSKY, LAZZARI /SODERO
March 11, 1944
FALSTAFF
WARREN, STEBER, BROWNLEE, HARSHAW, GREER, KULLMAN, BROWNING /BEECHAM
March 18, 1944
IL TROVATORE (commentary in Spanish before and after each act except before 4) in LOC
BAUM, MILANOV, WARREN, HARSHAW, MOSCONA /SODERO
March 25, 1944
PAGLIACCI (commentary before and after act 1)
JOBIN, ALBANESE, WARREN, VALENTINO /SODERO
March 25, 1944
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA extracts exist
FLESCH, TOKATYAN, PAULEE, VALENTINO /SODERO
April 1, 1944
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (complete with Portuguese commentary in the LOC) ncp 2593/98
KULLMAN, CONNER, BROWNLEE, BOWMAN, KIPNIS, RAYMONDI, GARRIS /WALTER
April 8, 1944
TOSCA (commentary in Spanish before act 1 and after act 3) in LOC ncp 2599/2603
MOORE, KULLMAN, SVED /SODERO
April 15, 1944
FAUST (tour performance from Boston, commentary before act 1 and after each act) LOC ncp 2604/09
JOBIN, ALBANESE, PINZA, SINGHER, BROWNING /BEECHAM
April 22, 1944
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (tour performance from Chicago, 90 mins of extracts from all acts, with commentary after the last two scenes)
PEERCE, MILANOV, WARREN, THORBORG, GREER /WALTER
April 29, 1944
LA BOHEME (tour performance from Chicago, extracts, end Act 1, 21 mins Act 4, 10 mins, commentary after act 1)
ALBANESE, KULLMAN, GREER, BROWNLEE, CEHANOVSKY, PINZA /SODERO
May 6, 1944
CARMEN (tour performance from Cleveland, Act 1 complete 48 mins, with opening and closing commentary and National Anthem, Act 2 extracts 16 mins, Act 3 nearly complete 43 mins with opening and closing commentary) [c.105 mins from Acts 1 and 3 in the LOC and NYPL])
DJANEL, JOBIN, ALBANESE, VALENTINO /PELLETIER

1944-45 Season
December 2, 1944
DIE WALKÜRE* (complete broadcast with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Victory Rally; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz) in NYPL & LOC
TRAUBEL, BAMPTON, MELCHIOR, JANSSEN, THORBORG, KIPNIS /SZELL
December 9, 1944
DON GIOVANNI nearly complete with all commentary (missing some of links between scenes): intermission Opera forum quiz (Olin Downes questions Boris Goldovsky, Sigmund Spaeth, and Huntington Watts) ; Post-opera curtain: Opera victory rally (Mrs. Joseph R. Truesdale, rally chairman, introduces The Hon. John W. Davis who talks about a stumbling block to peace; James Melton discusses the bond drive) ;in NYPL in LOC ncp1059/1065 VOA11
PINZA, KIRK, STEBER, BACCALONI, SAYAO, KULLMAN, HARRELL, MOSCONA /SZELL
December 15, 1944
AIDA special Met Guild performance for students - nearly complete broadcast without intermissions in NYPL (missing Act 4 Sc 1) commentary before and after each act, except after act 2
RESNIK, CARRON, THORBORG, VALENTINO, MOSCONA /COOPER
December 16, 1944
FAUST (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission "Column of the Air" latest opera news; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Victory Rally n.b. Walpurgis Night apparently omitted) in NYPL & LOC
JOBIN, ALBANESE, PINZA, SINGHER, LIPTON /PELLETIER
December 23, 1944
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (from AFRS relay, Acts 1 and 2 start late due to 1 hr broadcast time, Act 3 complete with commentary before and after each act; complete in Rhodes Collection on 21 discs)
TRAUBEL, MELCHIOR, THORBORG, JANSSEN, KIPNIS /LEINSDORF
December 30, 1944
NORMA commentary after both acts
MILANOV, TOUREL, JAGEL, CORDON /SODERO
January 6, 1945
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Act 1 Sc 2, Act 2 total 61 mins, commentary after act 1, before act 2, between Act 2, Sc 1 and Act 2 Sc 2, and after act 2)
MUNSEL, PEERCE, WARREN, MOSCONA /SODERO
January 13, 1945
PELLEAS ET MELISANDE (commentary after acts 1 and 2) complete broadcast without intermissions in NYPL
SAYAO, SINGHER, TIBBETT, HARSHAW, KIPNIS /COOPER
January 20, 1945
RIGOLETTO (commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera Quiz [missing end]; 2nd intermission Victory Rally with Kerstin Thorborg)
WEEDE, ANTOINE, KULLMAN, CORDON, KASKAS /SODERO
January 27, 1945
MIGNON* complete with and commentary and intermissions 1st intermission Victory Rally; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; in NYPL & LOC
STEVENS, MELTON, BENZELL, PINZA, BROWNING /PELLETIER
February 3, 1945
LA BOHEME (acts 1 and 2 only exist [Act 2 in Rhodes collection])
SAYAO, PEERCE, GREER, VALENTINO, THOMPSON, MOSCONA /SODERO
February 10, 1945
DIE MEISTERSINGER (incomplete, first 30 mins of act 1 not broadcast. Commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Victory Rally) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL including Victory Rally - also in Rhodes collection on 21 discs
JANSSEN, STEBER, KULLMAN, THORBORG, GARRIS, PECHNER, LIST /SZELL
February 17, 1945
LA TRAVIATA (commentary before and after acts 2 & 3 part of 2nd intermission Victory Rally, and 3rd intermission Opera Quiz - parts in LOC)
ALBANESE, PEERCE, TIBBETT /SODERO
February 24, 1945
LOHENGRIN (commentary before act 1 and after acts 1 and 3)
MELCHIOR, VARNAY, THORBORG, SVED, CORDON /LEINSDORF
March 3, 1945
LA GIOCONDA commentary before and after each act except after act 1
ROMAN, JAGEL, CASTAGNA, WARREN, MOSCONA, HARSHAW /COOPER
March 10, 1945
LE COQ D'OR (commentary before act 1 and after each act)
VOTIPKA, MUNSEL, CORDON, MARLOWE, HARSHAW /COOPER
March 17, 1945
FIDELIO (commentary before and after each act) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL including Victory Rally
RESNIK, CARRON, SCHON, ALVARY, GREER, GARRIS /WALTER
March 24, 1945
CARMEN* (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Pre-curtain feature: Lawrence Tibbett speaks about the Red Cross and today's intermission features, dedicated to the Red Cross ; 1st intermission Newsreel "Red Cross at War": Mr. Tibbett presents a dramatized picture of the Red Cross in action ; 2nd intermission Opera Forum Quiz (Mr. Tibbett introduces America Red Cross Chairman Basil O'Connor who responds to questions of Olin Downes, George Marek, Sigmund Spaeth, and Huntington Watts) ; 3rd intermission Opera Victory Rally: Mr. Tibbett introduces Mrs. August Belmont who presents Christopher LaFarge in a speech titled "Am I my brother's keeper?"; Post-curtain: Farewell from Mr. Tibbett with a request for donations to the Red Cross) in NYPL
DJANEL, JOBIN, ALBANESE, VALENTINO /PELLETIER
March 31, 1945
IL TROVATORE (commentary between scenes and before and after each act except after act 2)
BAUM, MILANOV, CASTAGNA, WARREN, MOSCONA /SODERO

1945-1946 Season

November 26, 1945
LOHENGRIN (commentary before and after act 1 and after acts 2 and 3)
RALF, TRAUBEL, THORBORG, JANSSEN, CORDON /BUSCH
December 1, 1945
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE commentary after act 2 and between some scenes
KULLMAN, CONNER, BENZELL, THOMPSON, PINZA, RAYMONDI, GARRIS /WALTER
December 8, 1945
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA 4 discs in the Buchsbaum collection
PEERCE, MILANOV, WARREN, HARSHAW, ALARIE /WALTER
December 15, 1945
DIE MEISTERSINGER 11 x 78rpm discs exist consisting of Act 1 45mins (all that was broadcast since the opera started 30 minutes before broadcast) and Act 2 complete 52 mins. Commentary after both acts.
GYNROD, STEBER, KULLMAN, THORBORG, GARRIS, PECHNER, LIST /SZELL

December 22, 1945
LOHENGRIN complete on 22 x 78rpm discs with commentary after each act
MELCHIOR, VARNAY, THORBORG, JANSSEN, MOSCONA /BUSCH
December 29, 1945
RIGOLETTO* (commentary before acts 3 and 4, after each act)
WARREN, SAYAO, BJÖRLING, LIPTON, CORDON /SODERO
January 5, 1946
IL TABARRO
ALBANESE, JAGEL, TIBBETT, HARSHAW /SODERO
January 5, 1946
DON PASQUALE commentary before act 1 after each act, and between some scenes
BACCALONI, SAYAO, MARTINI, BROWNLEE /BUSCH
January 12, 1946
LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN commentary before and after each act, complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL in LOC
JOBIN, SINGHER, ALARIE, THEBOM, NOVOTNA, BROWNING, OLIVIERO /PELLETIER
January 19, 1946
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
ALBANESE, MELTON, BROWNING, BROWNLEE, DE PAOLIS /CIMARA
January 26, 1946
ROMEO ET JULIETTE commentary after acts 1, 2, 3 sc 1, 3 sc 2, and 5
MUNSEL, JOBIN, MOSCONA, SINGHER, GREER /COOPER
February 2, 1946
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE 7 discs exist in the Buchsbaum collection, some discs not playable or damaged, 2h 57m of material, commentary after each act
TRAUBEL, MELCHIOR, THORBORG, BERGLUND, KIPNIS /BUSCH
February 9, 1946
TOSCA commentary after act 1 in LOC ncp1011/1015 VOA3
MOORE, PEERCE, TIBBETT /SODERO
February 16, 1946
DER ROSENKAVALIER commentary after each act
NOVOTNA, JESSNER, LIST, CONNER, OLITSKY, GLAZ, HAYWARD /SZELL
February 23, 1946
OTELLO
RALF, ROMAN, WARREN, LIPTON, DE PAOLIS /SZELL
March 2, 1946
LA BOHEME (commentary after act 1 & 3) in LOC ncp1053/1058
ROMAN, PEERCE, GREER, BROWNLEE, KENT, VAGHI /SODERO
March 9, 1946
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (commentary after act 1, Act 2 sc 1 and Act 2 Sc 2)
MUNSEL, PEERCE, VALENTINO, MOSCONA /CIMARA
March 16, 1946
LA GIOCONDA* in LOC ncp1079/1085 VOA8 commentary before and after act 1, before act 2
MILANOV, TUCKER, STEVENS, WARREN, VAGHI, HARSHAW /COOPER
March 23, 1946
LA TRAVIATA commentary after act 2 and before act 4 LOC ncp 2065/2069
ALBANESE, TUCKER, WARREN /SODERO
March 30, 1946
DIE WALKÜRE in LOC ncp1070/1078 (brief commentary before acts 2 & 3, and after each act; 3 mins of 1st intermisson (Opera Quiz)
TRAUBEL, VARNAY, MELCHIOR, BERGLUND, THORBORG, LIST /BREISACH

1946-1947 Season

November 16, 1946
OTELLO § (commentary after each act)
RALF, ROMAN, WARREN, LIPTON, DE PAOLIS /BUSCH
November 23, 1946
LAKME (commentary before act 2 (brief) and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News, Deems Taylor and Andre Kostelanetz discuss the influence of the Orient on western music)
PONS, JOBIN, JORDAN, SINGHER, VAGHI /FOURESTIER
November 30, 1946
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky, host, Frank St. Leger, and Martha Lipton discuss the Wagnerian orchestra) ; Opera quiz (Olin Downes questions Robert Lawrence, Basil Rathbone, and Sigmund Spaeth) ; Mrs. August Belmont invites membership in the Metropolitan Opera Guild ) in NYPL
TRAUBEL, SVANHOLM, HARSHAW, BERGLUND, ERNSTER /BUSCH
December 7, 1946
BORIS GODUNOV in LOC ncp 1094/1100 commentary after each act and between scenes
PINZA, DE PAOLIS, MOSCONA, TUCKER, STEVENS, VALENTINO, BACCALONI /COOPER
December 14, 1946
DER ROSENKAVALIER* (complete with all commentary and intermissions: Opera news on the air (Mrs. August Belmont introduces Boris Goldovsky who speaks with Maria Jeritza and Dino Yannopoulos about Strauss and Der Rosenkavalier) ; Opera quiz (Olin Downes questions Deems Taylor, Sigmund Spaeth, and Robert Bagar) in NYPL
STEVENS, JESSNER, LIST, STEBER, LECHNER, GLAZ, BAUM /BUSCH
December 28, 1946
AIDA (commentary before and after each act and between scenes)
ROMAN, SVANHOLM, THEBOM, WARREN, MOSCONA /SODERO
January 4, 1947
FAUST §
JOBIN, MAZELLA, PINZA, SINGHER, STELLMAN /FOURESTIER
January 11, 1947
THE WARRIOR § (commentary before and after opera; Pre-curtain feature (Norman Corwin, Bernard Rogers, and Edward Johnson discuss The warrior) ; Opera news on the air (Boris Goldovsky speaks with Queena Mario and Bernard Rogers ) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
HARRELL, RESNIK, SCHON /RUDOLF
January 11, 1947
HANSEL UND GRETEL (commentary after act 1 and before and after act 2, Texaco advert) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL in LOC ncp1090/1093
STEVENS, CONNER, VOTIPKA, TURNER, BROWNLEE /STIEDRY
January 18, 1947
ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL § (commentary after each act and between some scenes; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (4 mins only) ) in LOC ncp1548/52; 2048/52 VOA16
STEBER, KULLMAN, ALARIE, GARRIS, ERNSTER /COOPER
January 25, 1947
LOHENGRIN
MELCHIOR, TRAUBEL, HARSHAW, HAWKINS, ERNSTER /BUSCH
February 1, 1947
ROMEO ET JULIETTE* (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera, 2nd intermission Opera Roundtable on New Operas; 3rd intermission Opera Quiz) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL, Act 2 and Act 3, Sc 1, in LOC
BJÖRLING, SAYAO, MOSCONA, BENZELL, BROWNLEE /COOPER
February 8, 1947
MADAMA BUTTERFLY (commentary after each act) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
RESNIK, KULLMAN, BROWNING, BROWNLEE, DE PAOLIS /SODERO
February 15, 1947
IL TROVATORE § (commentary after act 2 sc 1)
BAUM, MILANOV, HARSHAW, WARREN, VAGHI /SODERO
February 22, 1947
CARMEN (commentary after each act) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL in LOC ncp 1542/1547 VOA13
STEVENS, VINAY, CONNER, MERRILL /RUDOLF
March 1, 1947
RIGOLETTO § (commentary after each act) intermissions in NYPL
WARREN, SCHYMBERG, PEERCE, LIPTON, VAGHI /SODERO
March 8, 1947
DIE WALKÜRE § (Act 1, 37 mins, Act 2 47 mins, Act 3 54 mins including commentary after each act )
VARNAY, BAMPTON, MELCHIOR, JANSSEN, HARSHAW, MOSCONA /STIEDRY
March 15, 1947
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO § (commentary before acts 3 & 4, after acts 1, 3 & 4) (in LOC & in Rhodes collection on 20 discs)
PINZA, SCHYMBERG, STEBER, BROWNLEE, NOVOTNA, BACCALONI, GLAZ /BUSCH

1947-1948 Season

November 15, 1947
TOSCA (36 mins of extracts Act 1 19 mins, Act 2 5 mins, Act 3 12 mins)
DOSIA, PEERCE, VALENTINO /ANTONICELLI
November 22, 1947
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
PEERCE, ILITSCH, WARREN, HARSHAW, ALARIE /ANTONICELLI
November 29, 1947
DIE MEISTERSINGER* (extracts act 1, 18 mins, act 2, 26 mins, Act 3, 6 mins, part of the opera quiz, 3 mins, commentary after acts 1 & 2)
JANSSEN, STOSKA, RALF, HARSHAW, GARRIS, PECHNER, ERNSTER /MARTIN
December 6, 1947
DON GIOVANNI complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL in LOC ncp1042/1047; 2013/2018
PINZA, RESNIK, STOSKA, BACCALONI, CONNER, KULLMAN, ALVARY, HINES /RUDOLF
December 13, 1947
MADAMA BUTTERFLY § (extracts, Act 1, 36 mins, Act 2, 40 mins, Act 3, 25 mins, commentary after acts 1 and 3)
ALBANESE, MELTON, ALTMAN, BROWNLEE, DE PAOLIS /ANTONICELLI
December 20, 1947
MANON (commentary after each act and some scenes; before act 5; 4th intermission Robert Woldrop offers a tribute to Enrico Caruso)
SAYAO, KULLMAN, MOSCONA, SINGHER /FOURESTIER
December 27, 1947
IL TROVATORE (commentary after each scene)
BJÖRLING, ROMAN, WARREN, HARSHAW, VAGHI /COOPER
January 3, 1948
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE § (Act 1 complete, Act 2 nearly complete, Act 3 29 mins) (commentary after act 1 (v.brief), and after act 3)
TRAUBEL, MELCHIOR, THEBOM, BERGLUND, SZEKELY /BUSCH
January 10, 1948
LOUISE in LOC commentary after act 3
KIRSTEN, JOBIN, HARSHAW, BROWNLEE /FOURESTIER
January 17, 1948
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR commentary after act 1 sc 1
PONS, TAGLIAVINI, MERRILL, MOSCONA /CIMARA

January 24, 1948

DIE WALKÜRE (commentary before and after each act)

MELCHIOR, TRAUBEL, JANSSEN, BAMPTON /STIEDRY
January 31, 1948
LA BOHEME (commentary after each act and before act 1)
SAYAO, TAGLIAVINI, BENZELL, BROWNLEE, THOMPSON, MOSCONA /ANTONICELLI
February 7, 1948
CARMEN commentary before and after each act, complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
STEVENS, VINAY, CONNER, SINGHER /PELLETIER
February 14, 1948
DER ROSENKAVALIER extracts exist NOVOTNA, JESSNER, LIST, STEBER, LECHNER, GLAZ, BAUM /BUSCH
February 21, 1948
AIDA (extracts Act 1 20 mins (with gaps), Act 2 Sc 1 7 mins Act 2 Sc 2 24 mins, Act 3 complete 30 mins, Act 4 complete; commentary before and after each act except after act 1, plus between some scenes)
ILITSCH/KIRK, BAUM, HARSHAW, WARREN, MOSCONA /COOPER
February 28, 1948
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA commentary before and after the opera, intermission Opera Quiz, in LOC
RESNIK, M. BERINI, BROWNLEE, LIPTON /ANTONICELLI
February 28, 1948
PAGLIACCI in LOC
VINAY, QUARTARARO, WARREN, THOMPSON /ANTONICELLI
March 6, 1948
TANNHÄUSER commentary before act 1, after each act, Edward Johnson introduces Peter Grimes at the end
MELCHIOR, TRAUBEL, JANSSEN, VARNAY, SZEKELY /STIEDRY
March 13, 1948
PETER GRIMES (commentary before act 1 after act 3)
JAGEL, STOSKA, HARRELL, LIPTON, TURNER /COOPER

1948-1949 Season
December 4, 1948 MIGNON (commentary before and after each act, and between scenes of act 2) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
STEVENS, MELTON, COTLOW, MADEIRA, MOSCONA /PELLETIER
December 11, 1948
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE TRAUBEL, MELCHIOR, THEBOM, JANSSEN, ERNSTER /BUSCH (commentary before and after each act, from AFRS discs)
December 18, 1948
OTELLO
VINAY, ALBANESE, WARREN, LIPTON, GARRIS /BUSCH
December 25, 1948
LA BOHEME (commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera)
SAYAO, BJÖRLING, BENZELL, VALENTINO, CEHANOVSKY, MOSCONA /ANTONICELLI
January 1, 1949
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR commentary after the mad scene [To accommodate the Sugar Bowl football game on New Year's Day, the broadcast of this performance was delayed until January 2.]

PONS, TAGLIAVINI, VALENTINO, HINES /CIMARA
January 8, 1949
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (commentary before act 1) in LOC
TAJO, SAYAO, STEBER, BROWNLEE, NOVOTNA, BACCALONI, TURNER /BUSCH
January 15, 1949
L'AMORE DEI TRE RE brief commentary after each act; 1st intermission, Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera.
KIRSTEN, KULLMAN, WEEDE, LAZZARI /ANTONICELLI
January 22, 1949
LA TRAVIATA* in LOC
STEBER, DI STEFANO, MERRILL /ANTONICELLI
January 29, 1949
DIE WALKÜRE (commentary before and after acts 1 & 2 and after act 3, 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL in LOC
TRAUBEL, BAMPTON, LORENZ, BERGLUNG, THORBORG, VICHEY /STIEDRY
February 5, 1949
L'ELISIR D'AMORE (commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera)
TAGLIAVINI, SAYAO, VALENTINO, TAJO /ANTONICELLI
February 12, 1949
PETER GRIMES (commentary before and after each act and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera)
SULLIVAN, STOSKA, TIBBETT, LIPTON, MADEIRA /COOPER
February 19, 1949
AIDA (79 mins of extracts: Act 1, Sc. 1 (18mins); Act 2 Sc. 1 (8 mins); Act 2 Sc. 2 (12 mins); Act 3 (complete 31 mins); Act 4 Sc. 2 (10 mins)) commentary after act 3 & 4, 3rd intermission Roundtable with Kerstin Thorborg John Brownlee Risë Stevens Louis D'Angelo Nicola Moscona Regina Resnik (9 mins)
WELITSCH, JAGEL, HARSHAW, GUARRERA, HINES /COOPER
February 26, 1949
FALSTAFF* (commentary before and after each scene) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
WARREN, RESNIK, VALDENGO, ELMO, ALBANESE, DI STEFANO, LIPTON /REINER
March 5, 1949
CARMEN § complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
STEVENS, BAUM, CONNER, MERRILL /PELLETIER
March 12, 1949
GIANNI SCHICCHI (commentary before and after the opera)
TAJO, ALBANESE, DI STEFANO, LENCHNER, VOTIPKA, ELMO /ANTONICELLI
March 12, 1949
SALOME (commentary before and after the opera including short interview with Welitsch)
WELITSCH, JAGEL, THORBORG, JANSSEN, SULLIVAN /REINER
March 19, 1949
RIGOLETTO § (brief commentary before acts 1 and 3)
WARREN, MUNSEL, PEERCE, LIPTON, ERNSTER /CIMARA

1949-1950 Season

November 21, 1949 (TV)
DER ROSENKAVALIER, (commentary after acts 2 & 3, intermission interview with Reiner)
STEVENS, STEBER, LIST BERGER, THOMPSON, LIPTON, DI STEFANO /REINER
November 26, 1949
SAMSON ET DALILA* complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
STEVENS, VINAY, MERRILL, HAWKINS, ERNSTER /COOPER
December 3, 1949
DER ROSENKAVALIER (commentary before and after each act) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL
STEVENS, STEBER, LIST, BERGER, THOMPSON, LIPTON, DI STEFANO /REINER
December 10, 1949
MANON LESCAUT* fully complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky, Kurt Weil and Vinton Freedly discuss 'What makes Puccini sound like Puccini?'; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Carlos Romulo talks about 'Grand Opera and Human Understanding'; Post opera, Italian consul-general gives an award to Edward Johnson.
KIRSTEN, BJÖRLING, VALDENGO, BACCALONI /ANTONICELLI
December 17, 1949
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
TRAUBEL, MELCHIOR, THEBOM, JANSSEN, SZEKELY /PERLEA
December 24, 1949*
L'ELISIR D'AMORE
TAGLIAVINI, SAYAO, VALDENGO, BACCALONI /ANTONICELLI
December 31, 1949
FAUST commentary before and after act 1 - complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL in LOC
DI STEFANO, KIRSTEN, TAJO, WARREN, I. MANSKI /PELLETIER
January 7, 1950
LOHENGRIN in LOC ncp 1956/1962; 2058/2064; VOA 25; commentary after act 3
MELCHIOR, TRAUBEL, VARNAY, JANSSEN, ERNSTER /STIEDRY
January 14, 1950
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR commentary before and after each act and between scenes
MUNSEL, PEERCE, VALENTINO, HINES /CIMARA
January 21, 1950
TOSCA §
ROMAN, TAGLIAVINI, SVED /ANTONICELLI
January 28, 1950
SIMON BOCCANEGRA* in LOC ncp1022/1026; 1981/1985 VOA28 commentary after act 1 sc 1, act 1 sc 3 and act 3
WARREN, VARNAY, TUCKER, SZEKELY, VALDENGO /STIEDRY
February 4, 1950
CARMEN apparently exists
STEVENS, BAUM, CONNER, GUARRERA /PERLEA
February 11, 1950
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO commentary before act 4 and after each act
TAJO, SAYAO, BROWNLEE, STEBER, NOVOTNA, BACCALONI, TURNER /REINER
February 18, 1950
MADAMA BUTTERFLY commentary before and act each act
ALBANESE, MELTON, ALTMAN, BROWNLEE, DE PAOLIS /ANTONICELLI
February 25, 1950
KHOVANSHCHINA commentary before and after each act, complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL in LOC
TIBBETT, SULLIVAN, STEVENS, HINES, KULLMAN, WEEDE /COOPER
March 4, 1950
RIGOLETTO commentary before and after each act
WARREN, MUNSEL, PEERCE, MOSCONA, LIPTON /PERLEA
March 11, 1950*
AIDA
WELITSCH, VINAY, HARSHAW, MERRILL, HINES /COOPER
March 18, 1950
DIE WALKÜRE § (short commentary after act 2, before act3)
TRAUBEL, BAMPTON, LORENZ, JANSSEN, THEBOM, LIST /STIEDRY
March 25, 1950
LA BOHEME (brief commentary before acts 1 & 2, and after acts 1, 2, and 4)
ALBANESE, TUCKER, HUNT, BROWNLEE, CEHANOVSKY, MOSCONA /ANTONICELLI

1950-1951 Season

November 6, 1950 DON CARLO (TV - audio only) (commentary after act 3 and before and after act 4) BJÖRLING, RIGAL, MERRILL, BARBIERI, SIEPI, HINES /STIEDRY

November 11, 1950 DON CARLO* (commentary before and after each act. 1st intermission Opera News introduction to the season; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Armistice Day Roundtable discussion) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL in LOC BJÖRLING, RIGAL, MERRILL, BARBIERI, SIEPI, HINES /STIEDRY

November 18, 1950 MANON LESCAUT (commentary before and after each act) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL KIRSTEN, TUCKER, VALDENGO, PECHNER /CLEVA

November 25, 1950 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (commentary before and after each act and between some scenes) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL in LOC TUCKER, STEBER, BERGER, BROWNLEE, HINES, RAYMONDI, CHABAY /STIEDRY

December 2, 1950 LA TRAVIATA commentary before and after each act except before act 4 complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL ALBANESE, TAGLIAVINI, SILVERI /EREDE

December 9, 1950 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE* commentary after each act complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL TRAUBEL, VINAY, THEBOM, SCHÖFFLER, S. NILSSON /REINER

December 16, 1950 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA* (commentary before both acts and after act 2) VALDENGO, PONS, DI STEFANO, BACCALONI, HINES, GLAZ /EREDE

December 23, 1950 FAUST (commentary before each act and after acts 2, 3, 4. 1st intermission Opera News pt 1; 2nd intermission Opera News pt 2 on staging an opera; 3rd intermission Opera Quiz) complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL BJÖRLING, KIRSTEN, SIEPI, GUARRERA, BOLLINGER /CLEVA

December 30, 1950 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER* commentary before and after each act except after act 2, short extract from Goldovsky analysis of the opera complete broadcast with intermissions in NYPL HOTTER, VARNAY, SVANHOLM, S. NILSSON /REINER

January 6, 1951 DON GIOVANNI commentary before act 1 and after act 2 SILVERI, WELITSCH, RESNIK, BACCALONI, CONNER, CONLEY, ALVARY, MOSCONA /REINER

January 13, 1951 IL TROVATORE (commentary before and after each act and between scenes) BAUM, RIGAL, WARREN, BARBIERI, MOSCONA /EREDE

January 20, 1951 DIE FLEDERMAUS* (commentary before (brief) and after the opera) in LOC PIAZZA, KULLMAN, MUNSEL, TUCKER, STEVENS, BROWNLEE /ORMANDY

January 27, 1951 DAS RHEINGOLD* (commentary before and after the opera) HOTTER, HARSHAW, DAVIDSON, SVANHOLM, BRANZELL, HINES, ERNSTER /STIEDRY

February 3, 1951 DIE WALKÜRE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz FLAGSTAD, TREPTOW, VARNAY, FRANTZ, THEBOM, VICHEY /STIEDRY

February 10, 1951 SIEGFRIED (commentary before each act and after acts 1 and 3 ) SVANHOLM, TRAUBEL, KLEIN, FRANTZ, BRANZELL, PECHNER /STIEDRY

February 17, 1951 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky and Astrid Varnay analyse the opera TRAUBEL, SVANHOLM, JANSSEN, RESNIK, ERNSTER, HARSHAW, PECHNER /STIEDRY

February 24, 1951 DER ROSENKAVALIER in LOC commentary before and after each act except after act 3 NOVOTNA, STEBER, KRENN, BERGER, THOMPSON, GLAZ, BAUM /REINER

March 3, 1951 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA* in LOC MILANOV, TUCKER, LIPTON, HARVUOT /EREDE

March 3, 1951 PAGLIACCI* commentary before act 1, after both acts, in LOC BAUM, RIGAL, WARREN, GUARRERA /EREDE

March 10, 1951 FIDELIO* (commentary before and after both acts) in LOC FLAGSTAD, SVANHOLM, SCHÖFFLER, ERNSTER, CONNER, KLEIN /WALTER

March 17, 1951 LA BOHEME* in LOC commentary before act 1, after acts 1, 2 and 4 SAYAO, DI STEFANO, HUNT, VALDENGO, CEHANOVSKY, SIEPI /CLEVA

March 24, 1951 MET JAMBOREE in LOC STEVENS, SULLIVAN, AMARA, WARREN, SAYAO, KULLMAN, PETERS /RUDOLF, CLEVA

 

1951-1952 Season

December 1, 1951 LA TRAVIATA commentary before acts 1, 2 and 3 and after each act ALBANESE, PRANDELLI, CAPECCHI /CLEVA

December 8, 1951 RIGOLETTO* WARREN, GUEDEN, TUCKER, PERNERSTORFER, MADEIRA /EREDE

December 15, 1951 MANON* commentary after act 5, 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera [5 mins only] ALBANESE, DI STEFANO, SINGHER, HINES /CLEVA

December 22, 1951 FLEDERMAUS* commentary after each act RESNIK, KULLMAN, MUNSEL, SULLIVAN, THEBOM, BROWNLEE /ORMANDY

December 29, 1951 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR § PONS, TAGLIAVINI, VALDENGO, SCOTT /CLEVA

January 5, 1952 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera with Astrid Varnay, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, TRAUBEL, SVANHOLM, SCHÖFFLER, RESNIK, ERNSTER, HARSHAW, PECHNER /STIEDRY

January 12, 1952 COSI FAN TUTTE in LOC commentary before and after each act, intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera STEBER, TUCKER, THEBOM, GUARRERA, MUNSEL, BROWNLEE /STIEDRY

January 19, 1952 GIANNI SCHICCHI BACCALONI, PETERS, HAYWARD, LENCHNER, VOTIPKA, MADEIRA /EREDE

January 19, 1952 SALOME* commentary after the opera WELITSCH, SVANHOLM, HÖNGEN, HOTTER, SULLIVAN /REINER

January 26, 1952 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA MILANOV, BAUM, MILLER, HARVUOT /EREDE

January 26, 1952 PAGLIACCI commentary after the opera VINAY, RIGAL, GUARRERA, CAPECCHI /EREDE

February 2, 1952 MADAMA BUTTERFLY commentary before and after each act, fragment of 1st intermission Opera News KIRSTEN, PRANDELLI, MILLER, VALENTINO, DE PAOLIS /CLEVA

February 9, 1952 OTELLO* in LOC commentary before and after each act VINAY, STEBER, WARREN, LIPTON, HAYWARD /STIEDRY

February 16, 1952 CARMEN* in LOC commentary before and after each act STEVENS, TUCKER, CONNER, SILVERI /REINER

February 23, 1952 ELEKTRA* VARNAY, WEGNER, HÖNGEN, SCHÖFFLER, SVANHOLM /REINER brief commentary before and after the opera plus pre-curtain feature: Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera

March 1, 1952 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO in LOC commentary after act 4 SIEPI, CONNER, DE LOS ANGELES, VALDENGO, MILLER, BACCALONI, MADEIRA /REINER

March 8, 1952 AIDA complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera with Robert Merrill, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Opera Mail Box MILANOV, DEL MONACO, RANKIN, WARREN, HINES /CLEVA

March 15, 1952 LA BOHEME* in LOC commentary before and after each act ALBANESE, DI STEFANO, GUEDEN, GUARRERA, HARVUOT, SIEPI /EREDE

March 22, 1952 DIE MEISTERSINGER in LOC commentary after act 3 SCHÖFFLER, WEGNER, HOPF, PECHNER, GLAZ, HOLM, PERNERSTORFER /REINER

March 29, 1952 ALCESTIS commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence analyses the opera with Herbert Graf and Rose Bampton; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (incomplete - 18 mins) FLAGSTAD, SULLIVAN, VALENTINO /EREDE

April 5, 1952 DON CARLO* in LOC (commentary before and after each act and between scenes) TUCKER, RIGAL, SILVERI, BARBIERI, HINES, HOTTER /STIEDRY

April 12, 1952 PARSIFAL in LOC commentary before and after each act 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera HOPF, HARSHAW, HOTTER, HINES, PECHNER /STIEDRY

 

1952-1953 season

November 29, 1952 in LOC LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* commentary before and after each act and between scenes MILANOV, TUCKER, WARREN, HINES, MILLER, PECHNER /STIEDRY

December 6, 1952 in LOC DON GIOVANNI commentary before and after each act with short (30 sec) snippet of intermission Quiz SIEPI, ZADEK, RIGAL, KUNZ, MUNSEL, PEERCE, ALVARY, ERNSTER /REINER

December 13, 1952 in LOC TOSCA complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky defines the genius of Puccini, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz KIRSTEN, TAGLIAVINI, SCHÖFFLER /CLEVA

December 20, 1952 in LOC DON CARLO complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky on what makes an opera popular, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz TUCKER, RIGAL, MERRILL, BARBIERI, SIEPI, HINES /EREDE

December 27, 1952 LA BOHEME CONNER, TUCKER, MUNSEL, MERRILL, HARVUOT, HINES /EREDE

January 3, 1953 LA GIOCONDA* commentary after act 4 MILANOV, BAUM, BARBIERI, WARREN, SIEPI, MADEIRA /CLEVA

January 10, 1953 DIE MEISTERSINGER* commentary after each act and before act 3 SCHÖFFLER, DE LOS ANGELES, HOPF, GLAZ, HOLM, PECHNER, GREINDL /REINER

January 17, 1953 MADAMA BUTTERFLY commentary before and after each act except before act 2 ALBANESE, CONLEY, ROGGERO, VALENTINO, DE PAOLIS /CLEVA

January 24, 1953 AIDA in LOC T7147 r10 commentary before act 4, after acts 2, 3 and 4 and between some scenes MILANOV, DEL MONACO, THEBOM, LONDON, HINES /CLEVA

January 31, 1953 CARMEN* in LOC BARBIERI, DEL MONACO, GUEDEN, GUARRERA /REINER

February 7, 1953 COSI FAN TUTTE in LOC commentary after act 1 STEBER, TUCKER, THEBOM, GUARRERA, PETERS, BROWNLEE /STIEDRY

February 14, 1953 THE RAKE'S PROGRESS* (commentary before and after each act and between some scenes) CONLEY, GUEDEN, HARRELL, THEBOM /REINER

February 21, 1953 LA BOHEME brief commentary before acts 1, 2 and 3, after acts 2 & 4 DE LOS ANGELES,PEERCE, B. LEWIS, CAPECCHI, CEHANOVSKY, SIEPI /EREDE

February 28, 1953 DER ROSENKAVALIER in LOC T7147 R11 commentary before and after act 3 STEVENS, VARNAY, KOREH, CONNER, BROWNLEE, GLAZ, HAYWARD /REINER

March 7, 1953 RIGOLETTO commentary before act 1 and after each act WARREN, GUEDEN, CONLEY, MADEIRA, MOSCONA /EREDE

March 14, 1953 SAMSON ET DALILA commentary after each act STEVENS, VINAY, S. BJÖRLING, SCOTT, VICHEY /CLEVA

March 21, 1953 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera with Karin Branzell, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, includes interruption for fund-raiser 2 mins into act 2 TRAUBEL, SVANHOLM, THEBOM, SCHÖFFLER, HOTTER /STIEDRY

March 28, 1953 BORIS GODUNOV complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera with Deems Taylor, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz pt 1; 3rd intermission Opera Quiz pt 2 LONDON, MCKINLEY, SCOTT, SULLIVAN, /STIEDRY

April 4, 1953 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA* commentary before and after the opera MILANOV, BAUM, VALENTINO, ROGGERO /EREDE

April 4, 1953 PAGLIACCI* DEL MONACO, RIGAL, SILVERI, CAPECCHI /EREDE

April 6, 1953 MET JAMBOREE (& TV) THEBOM, TUCKER, BACCALONI, DEL MONACO, LONDON, SULLIVAN, MILANOV, PETERS, CONLEY, VALENTINO, PRICE, ALBANESE /CLEVA, RUDOLF

April 11, 1953 LOHENGRIN* commentary after each act SULLIVAN, STEBER, HARSHAW, S. BJÖRLING, ERNSTER /STIEDRY

 

1953-1954 season

December 5, 1953 FAUST in LOC commentary before and after each act except before act 4 CONLEY, DE LOS ANGELES, ROSSI-LEMENI, MERRILL, MILLER /MONTEUX

December 12, 1953 RIGOLETTO commentary after act 4 MERRILL, GUEDEN, PEERCE, VICHEY, MADEIRA /EREDE

December 19, 1953 LA BOHEME* (commentary after each act) GUEDEN, CONLEY, FENN, MERRILL, HARVUOT, SCOTT /EREDE

December 26, 1953 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO commentary after acts 2 and 4 KUNZ, SEEFRIED, DELLA CASA, GUARRERA, MILLER, BACCALONI, GLAZ /STIEDRY

January 2, 1954 PELLEAS ET MELISANDE (commentary before acts 1 & 4. after acts 1, 2 4 & 5, 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky anaylses the opera [first 12 mins]) CONNER, UPPMAN, SINGHER, HINES, LIPTON /MONTEUX

January 9, 1954 in LOC T7330 R31 TANNHÄUSER* (commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera) VINAY, HARSHAW, VARNAY, LONDON, HINES /SZELL

January 16, 1954 IL TROVATORE* (nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions except for closing commentary; 1st intermission Metropolitan at Work with Bing and Rudolf; 2nd intermission Opera News Deems Taylor on the Art of Bel Canto with John McCormack's widow; 3rd intermission Opera Quiz) BAUM, MILANOV, WARREN, NIKOLAIDI, MOSCONA /CLEVA

January 23, 1954 DIE FLEDERMAUS* (commentary before acts 1 & 3, and after acts 2 & 3) STEBER, KULLMAN, MUNSEL, HAYWARD, NOVOTNA, BROWNLEE /KOZMA

January 30, 1954 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (commentary before acts 1 and 2, after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky discusses mad scenes in opera) PONS, PEERCE, VALENTINO, SCOTT /CLEVA

February 6, 1954 LA TRAVIATA in LOC (commentary before acts 2, 3, and 4 and after acts 1, 3, and 4, 3rd intermission Opera Anecdotes [incomplete]) ALBANESE, TUCKER, WARREN /CLEVA

February 13, 1954 DIE WALKÜRE commentary after acts 2 & 3 HARSHAW, VARNAY, SVANHOLM, FRANTZ, THEBOM, HOTTER /STIEDRY

February 20, 1954 AIDA* in LOC T7147 r17 (commentary before acts 1 & 2, after each act and between scenes) MILANOV, BAUM, BARBIERI, WARREN, HINES /CLEVA

February 27, 1954 BORIS GODUNOV (commentary before and after each act and between scenes) SIEPI, KULLMAN, SCOTT, GARI, THEBOM, HARVUOT, BACCALONI /STIEDRY

March 6, 1954 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA* commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission opera news Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera MERRILL, PETERS, VALLETTI, CORENA, SIEPI, MADEIRA /EREDE

March 13, 1954 DON GIOVANNI* commentary after act 2 LONDON, HARSHAW, STEBER, CORENA, CONNER, CONLEY, ALVARY, VICHEY /RUDOLF

March 20, 1954 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* (commentary after act 1 sc 1, Overture, act 1 sc2, before act 2 sc 1 and sc 2 and act 3, after acts 2 and 3) MILANOV, PENNO, WARREN, HINES, MADEIRA, PECHNER /STIEDRY

March 27, 1954 NORMA (commentary before acts 1 and 2, and after each act, 1st intermission Opera News Goldovsky discusses Norma with Rosa Ponselle) MILANOV, THEBOM, PENNO, SIEPI /CLEVA

April 3, 1954 CARMEN* (commentary after act 1 and before act 2, part of 1st intermission, Opera News with Jay Harrison and guests; 3rd intermission interview with Mary Garden) STEVENS, TUCKER, DE LOS ANGELES, GUARRERA /KOZMA

April 10, 1954 COSI FAN TUTTE (commentary before and after each act) STEBER, TUCKER, THEBOM, GUARRERA, MUNSEL, BROWNLEE /STIEDRY

April 17, 1954 PARSIFAL complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera , 2nd intermission Opera Quiz SVANHOLM, VARNAY, LONDON, HOTTER, DAVIDSON /STIEDRY

 

1954-55

December 4, 1954 ANDREA CHENIER (commentary before and after each act, including Rudolf Bing's introduction to the season; 1st intermission Opera News with Boris Goldovsky, Florence Easton and Robert Merrill; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz with Robert Lawrence, Robert Bagar, Hugh Ross and Walter Ducloux; 3rd intermission Roving Reporter Clifton Fadiman talks to stars of "Fanny") in LOC DEL MONACO, MILANOV, WARREN, ELIAS /CLEVA

December 11, 1954 DIE MEISTERSINGER complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera with Eleanor Steber and Eric Leinsdorf, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz EDELMANN, DELLA CASA, HOPF, GLAZ, FRANKE, PECHNER, BÖHME /STIEDRY

December 18, 1954 MANON* (commentary before act 1, before act 2 [v.brief], after final act) DE LOS ANGELES, VALLETTI, CORENA , HINES /MONTEUX

December 25, 1954 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA in LOC (commentary after act 3 - many circulating copies of this are actually the March 1954 broadcast but one way to tell the difference is that Peters does not sing a high F at the end of Una Voce in the Dec broadcast) MERRILL, PETERS, VALLETI, CORENA, SIEPI, MADEIRA /EREDE

January 1, 1955 LA TRAVIATA commentary before and after act 2, 1st intermission Opera News (fragment), 2nd intermission Quiz ALBANESE, PRANDELLI, BASTIANINI /EREDE

January 8, 1955 VITTORIO (Ballet ) / SALOME complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz GOLTZ, VINAY, THEBOM, SCHÖFFLER, SULLIVAN /MITROPOULOS

January 15, 1955 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (commentary before and after each act except before act 2) SIEPI, CONNER, STEBER, GUARRERA, MILLER, CORENA, MADEIRA /STIEDRY

January 22, 1955 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* brief commentary before act 3, after acts 3 and 4 TUCKER, MILANOV, METTERNICH, MADEIRA, PETERS /MITROPOULOS

January 29, 1955 TANNHÄUSER fully complete with all commentary and intermissions 1st intermission Opera News Dello Joio with Kurt Adler; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz VINAY, VARNAY, THEBOM, LONDON, HINES /KEMPE

February 5, 1955 CARMEN § in LOC commentary after acts 3 and 4 STEVENS, DEL MONACO, AMARA, /RUDOLF

February 12, 1955 DON GIOVANNI in LOC HARSHAW, AMARA, PETERS, SIEPI, VALLETTI / RUDOLF

February 19, 1955 FAUST* (commentary before acts 1 and 2 and after acts 3 and 5) PEERCE, DE LOS ANGELES, SIEPI, MERRILL, MILLER /MONTEUX

February 26, 1955 ARABELLA nearly complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera [missing 2nd intermission Opera Quiz] STEBER, LONDON, GUEDEN, SULLIVAN, THEBOM, HERBERT, PETERS /KEMPE

March 5, 1955 DON CARLO* commentary before and after each act and between scenes TUCKER, STEBER, BASTIANINI, THEBOM, HINES, MOSCONA /ADLER

March 12, 1955 OTELLO fully complete with all commentary and intermissions 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky anaylses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Roving Reporter Clifton Fadiman talks to Menotti DEL MONACO, TEBALDI, WARREN, LIPTON, FRANKE /STIEDRY

March 19, 1955 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE* fully complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Opera News Dello Joio with Kirsten Flagstad and Edwin McArthur; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz VARNAY, SVANHOLM, THEBOM, METTERNICH, HINES /KEMPE

March 26, 1955 LA BOHEME* (commentary after act 4; portion of the third intermission - Texaco Opera's Roving Reporter - Clifton Fadiman and Milton Cross) ALBANESE, CONLEY, FENN, GUARRERA, HARVUOT, MOSCONA /CLEVA

April 2, 1955 LA GIOCONDA* (commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission opera news Boris Goldovsky with Giovanni Martinelli) MILANOV, BAUM, RANKIN, WARREN, TOZZI, WARFIELD /CLEVA

April 9, 1955 ORFEO ED EURIDICE* Bing wishes Monteux a Happy 80th Birthday before act 3 STEVENS, GUEDEN, HURLEY /MONTEUX

 

1955-56

December 3, 1955 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN* commentary after epilogue TUCKER, SINGHER, PETERS, STEVENS, AMARA, MILLER, DE PAOLIS /MONTEUX

December 10, 1955 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st Intermission Opera News Dello Joio with Richard Tucker; 2nd Intermission Opera Quiz) PEERCE, MILANOV, MERRILL, ANDERSON, PETERS /MITROPOULOS

December 17, 1955 COSI FAN TUTTE STEBER, VALLETTI, THEBOM, GUARRERA, MUNSEL, ALVARY /STIEDRY

December 24, 1955 LOHENGRIN (commentary after act 1) SULLIVAN, STEBER, HARSHAW, UHDE, EDELMANN /STIEDRY

December 31, 1955 AIDA in LOC T7330 R29 (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky with Giovanni Martinelli and Nell Rankin, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Roving Reporter) MILANOV, BAUM, THEBOM, MERRILL, TOZZI /CLEVA

January 7, 1956 TOSCA* commentary before and after each act except after act 1 TEBALDI, TUCKER, WARREN /MITROPOULOS

January 14, 1956 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR commentary before act 1, after each act and between scenes PONS, PEERCE, VALENTINO, MOSCONA /CLEVA

January 21, 1956 CARMEN in LOC (commentary before and after each act) STEVENS, DI STEFANO, AMARA, MERRILL /RUDOLF

January 28, 1956 DIE MEISTERSINGER (commentary after each act) SCHÖFFLER, DELLA CASA, DA COSTA, GLAZ, FRANKE, PECHNER, TOZZI /KEMPE

February 4, 1956 FAUST (near complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Dello Joio analyses the opera , 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Roving Reporter Clifton Fadiman with Resnik, London, and Merrill) CAMPORA, KIRSTEN, HINES, GUARRERA, ELIAS /MONTEUX

February 11, 1956 SOIREE / DON PASQUALE complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Roving Reporter Clifton Fadiman interviews Steuart Willson CORENA, PETERS, VALLETTI, GUARRERA /SCHIPPERS

February 18, 1956 DER ROSENKAVALIER* commentary after act 1 STEVENS, DELLA CASA, EDELMANN, GUEDEN, HERBERT, LIPTON, HAYWARD /KEMPE

February 25, 1956 RIGOLETTO commentary before and after each act WARREN, PETERS, TUCKER, ELIAS, TOZZI /CLEVA

March 3, 1956 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE SULLIVAN, AMARA, PETERS, UPPMAN, HINES, HURLEY, FRANKE /WALTER intermission: Opera News, Clifton Fadiman talks with Bruno Walter

March 10, 1956 BORIS GODUNOV nearly complete (missing the end of the quiz) with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz LONDON, KULLMAN, TOZZI, GARI, THEBOM, HARVUOT, ALVARY /MITROPOULOS

March 17, 1956 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* (commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz) MILANOV, TUCKER, WARREN, SIEPI, ELIAS, CORENA /STIEDRY

March 24, 1956 PARSIFAL* (commentary after each act) SVANHOLM, HARSHAW, SCHÖFFLER, EDELMANN, PECHNER /STIEDRY

March 31, 1956 MANON LESCAUT* (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News with Lucretia Bori; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Roving Reporter Fadiman interviews Samuel Chotzinoff) ALBANESE, BJÖRLING, GUARRERA, CORENA /MITROPOULOS

April 7, 1956 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO* (commentary before and after each act; 3rd intermission Roving Reporter [part] Fadiman and Bruno Walter) SIEPI, CONNER, DE LOS ANGELES, GUARRERA, MILLER, WARFIELD, CORENA /RUDOLF

April 14, 1956 IL TROVATORE (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Dello Joio with Eva Turner and Martinelli, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Roving Reporter interviews Bing) BAUM, MILANOV, WARREN, RANKIN, TOZZI /CLEVA

 

1956-57

December 8, 1956 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News John Brownlee discusses Lucia; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz CALLAS, CAMPORA, SORDELLO, MOSCONA /CLEVA

December 15, 1956 MADAMA BUTTERFLY* commentary before acts 1 and 3, after each act ALBANESE, ELIAS, BARIONI, BROWNLEE, DE PAOLIS /MITROPOULOS

December 22, 1956 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Norman Dello Joio interviews Thelma Votipka and George Chehanovksy; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz TUCKER, LONDON, HURLEY, AMPARAN, AMARA, MILLER, ANTHONY /SCHIPPERS

December 29, 1956 ERNANI* commentary before and after each act except after act 1, 3rd intermission Roving Reporter Clifton Fadiman celebrates the 25th anniversary of Met broadcasts DEL MONACO, MILANOV, WARREN, SIEPI /MITROPOULOS

January 5, 1957 RIGOLETTO* MERRILL, GUEDEN, PEERCE, ROGGERO, TOZZI /CLEVA

January 12, 1957 CARMEN complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission John Gutman leads a discussion of Carmen; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Clifton Fadiman with Cyril Ritchard STEVENS, DEL MONACO, AMARA, GUARRERA /MITROPOULOS

January 19, 1957 LA PERICHOLE commentary before and after each act, part of 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (5 mins) MUNSEL, UPPMAN, RITCHARD /MOREL

January 26, 1957 DAS RHEINGOLD* complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Rheingold UHDE, THEBOM, DAVIDSON, VINAY, MADEIRA, BÖHME, ERNSTER /STIEDRY

February 2, 1957 DIE WALKÜRE* commentary before act 1 HARSHAW, SCHECH, VINAY, EDELMANN, THEBOM, BÖHME /MITROPOULOS

February 9, 1957 ARABELLA complete with all commentary and both intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News John Gutman leads a discussion of Arabella; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz DELLA CASA, LONDON, GUEDEN, CRAIN, LIPTON, ALVARY, HURLEY /LEINSDORF

February 16, 1957 SIEGFRIED* complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky with Thebom and Leinsdorf; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz WINDGASSEN, MOEDL, KELLEY, EDELMANN, MADEIRA, PECHNER /STIEDRY

February 23, 1957 AIDA (nearly complete commentary before and after each act: 1st intermission Opera News Dello Joio leads a discussion of Aida (incomplete); 2nd Intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Roving Reporter Clifton Fadiman visits Met Opera Association Members STELLA, BAUM, THEBOM, LONDON, TOZZI /CLEVA

March 2, 1957 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG* fully complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz HARSHAW, WINDGASSEN, UHDE, SCHECH, BÖHME, MADEIRA, DAVIDSON /STIEDRY

March 9, 1957 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE commentary before both acts & after act 2 SULLIVAN, AMARA, UPPMAN, HURLEY, HINES, ALLEN, FRANKE /KOZMA

March 16, 1957 IL TROVATORE* brief commentary after acts 1, 3 and 4, and between some scenes BAUM, STELLA, MADEIRA, MERRILL, MOSCONA /RUDOLF

March 23, 1957 TOSCA* fully complete with all commentary and both intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News John Gutman leads a discussion of Tosca; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz ALBANESE, BARIONI, WARREN /MITROPOULOS

March 30, 1957 LA BOHEME* commentary before acts 1, 2 and 4, after each act KIRSTEN, TUCKER, HURLEY, BASTIANINI, CEHANOVSKY, SIEPI /KOZMA

April 6, 1957 LA TRAVIATA* (commentary before and after each act) TEBALDI, CAMPORA, WARREN /CLEVA

April 13, 1957 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA* (tour performance from Boston, commentary before and after the opera) MILANOV, TUCKER, VALENTINO, ELIAS /CLEVA

April 13, 1957 PAGLIACCI* (tour performance from Boston, commentary before and after both acts) BAUM, AMARA, MERRILL, GUARRERA /CLEVA

April 20, 1957 LA GIOCONDA* commentary before acts 3 & 4, after each act and between scenes of act 3, 1st intermission Opera News Boris Godovsky and Rosa Ponselle discuss the opera; part of 3rd intermission Bing's season retrospective MILANOV, POGGI, RANKIN, WARREN, SIEPI, AMPARAN /CLEVA

 

1957-58

November 30, 1957 AIDA commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Aida CURTIS-VERNA, BERGONZI, DALIS, MERRILL, TOZZI /CLEVA

December 7, 1957 EUGENE ONEGIN in LOC commentary before and after each act LONDON, AMARA, TUCKER, ELIAS, TOZZI /MITROPOULOS

December 14, 1957 DON GIOVANNI commentary before and after both acts SIEPI, STEBER, DELLA CASA, PETERS, CORENA, PEERCE, UPPMAN, TOZZI /BÖHM

December 21, 1957 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA* commentary before after each act GUARRERA, PETERS, VALLETTI, CORENA, HINES, ROGGERO /RUDOLF

December 28, 1957 ANDREA CHENIER* commentary before and after each act TUCKER, MILANOV, WARREN, ELIAS /CLEVA

January 4, 1958 FAUST* commentary before each act, and between scenes of acts 1 & 3 and after acts 3 & 4 GEDDA, GUEDEN, HINES, MERRILL, ROGGERO /MOREL

January 11, 1958 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO* commentary before and after each act TOZZI, GUEDEN, DELLA CASA, LONDON, MILLER, RESNIK, CORENA /LEINSDORF

January 18, 1958 ORFEO ED EURIDICE* commentary before each act, after act 1 sc 1, acts 2 and 3 STEVENS, AMARA, CUNDARI /RUDOLF

January 25, 1958 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* commentary before and after each act and between scenes MILANOV, LABO, SERENI, SIEPI, CORENA, ROGGERO /STIEDRY

February 1, 1958 VANESSA* commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission Opera News, Samuel Barber discusses Vanessa STEBER, GEDDA, ELIAS, RESNIK, TOZZI /MITROPOULOS

February 8, 1958 GIANNI SCHICCHI (commentary before and after the opera) CORENA, HURLEY, ANTHONY, CHAMBERS, VOTIPKA, AMPARAN /MITROPOULOS

February 8, 1958 SALOME (commentary before and after the opera) BORKH, VINAY, THEBOM, HARRELL, GARI /MITROPOULOS

February 15, 1958 LA BOHEME* (commentary before acts 1, 2 and 4 and after each act, part of intermission with roving reporter Fadiman interviews Sol Hurok) ALBANESE, BERGONZI, HURLEY, SERENI, HARVUOT, SCOTT /SCHIPPERS

February 22, 1958 LA TRAVIATA (commentary before act 1 and after each act) DE LOS ANGELES, CAMPORA, MERRILL /CLEVA

March 1, 1958 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE* commentary before each act, after acts 1 and 2; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Tristan HARSHAW, VINAY, THEBOM, EDELMANN, CASSEL /STIEDRY

March 8, 1958 OTELLO* commentary before and after each act DEL MONACO, DE LOS ANGELES, WARREN, ELIAS, FRANKE /CLEVA

March 15, 1958 TOSCA* commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News, Dello Joio, Milanov and London discuss acting in Tosca STELLA, TUCKER, WARREN /MITROPOULOS

March 22, 1958 DER ROSENKAVALIER* commentary before acts 1 [v.brief] and 3, and after act 3, 1st intermission interview with Lotte Lehmann, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz STEVENS, STEBER, EDELMANN, HURLEY, HERBERT, LIPTON, BAUM /RUDOLF

March 29, 1958 MADAMA BUTTERFLY (complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky leads an analysis of Butterfly with Albanese and Peerce ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz) STELLA, FERNANDI, ROGGERO, HARVUOT, DE PAOLIS /MITROPOULOS

April 5, 1958 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (commentary before and after each act and between scenes, fragment of first intermission Opera News Norman Dello Joio, Mrs John McCormack and Robert Merrill discuss bel canto [2 mins]) PETERS, PEERCE, ZANASI, MOSCONA /CLEVA

April 12, 1958 SAMSON ET DALILA* commentary before and after each act; pre-curtain talk by Bing reviewing the season and previewing next season; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera with Regina Resnik providing musical examples [extracts 4 mins] DEL MONACO, STEVENS, SINGHER, SCOTT, TOZZI /CLEVA

 

1958-59

November 29, 1958 CARMEN (commentary before and after each act including Bing's introduction to the season; 3rd intermission Roving Reporter Fadiman interviews Van Cliburn) STEVENS, TUCKER, GUEDEN, ZANASI /MOREL

December 6, 1958 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE commentary after act 1 scene 1, act 1 sc 2, before and after act 2. GEDDA, DAVY, UPPMAN, PETERS, TOZZI, ALLEN, FRANKE /LEINSDORF

December 13, 1958 DIE FLEDERMAUS commentary before and after each act GUEDEN, UPPMAN, PETERS, VALLETTI, THEBOM, GUARRERA /LEINDSDORF

December 20, 1958 OTELLO commentary before and after each act, part of 3rd intermission (3 mins), Clifton Fadiman and Van Cliburn analyse the opera DEL MONACO, TEBALDI, WARREN, LIPTON, FRANKE /CLEVA

December 27, 1958 MADAMA BUTTERFLY commentary after each act 1st intermission Opera News Maria Jeritza discusses Puccini ALBANESE, MORELL, MILLER, GUARRERA, FRANKE /LEINSDORF

January 3, 1959 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA commentary before and after the opera MILANOV, BARIONI, ZANASI, ELIAS /MITROPOULOS

January 3, 1959 PAGLIACCI commentary before and after both acts plus 2nd intermission Opera Quiz DEL MONACO, AMARA, WARREN, SERENI /MITROPOULOS

January 10, 1959 LA GIOCONDA commentary before and after each act and between scenes of act 3; 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera with Giovanni Martinelli and Blanche Thebom MILANOV, TUCKER, RANKIN, MERRILL, SIEPI, AMPARAN /CLEVA

January 17, 1959 MANON LESCAUT (commentary before acts 1, 3 and 4, after each act) TEBALDI, TUCKER, GUARRERA, CORENA /CLEVA

January 24, 1959 LA TRAVIATA* (commentary before acts 1 & 3, after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Bidu Sayao and Jan Peerce discuss the opera) ALBANESE, VALLETTI, SERENI /ADLER

January 31, 1959 LOHENGRIN* (Commentary after each act) SULLIVAN, DELLA CASA, HARSHAW, CASSEL, EDELMANN /SCHIPPERS

February 7, 1959 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN* complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz GEDDA, LONDON, DOBBS, ELIAS, AMARA, VANNI, DE PAOLIS /MOREL

February 14, 1959 DON GIOVANNI* commentary between scenes and after each act, intermission extract Quiz, 4 mins LONDON, STEBER, DELLA CASA, FLAGELLO, HURLEY, VALLETTI, UPPMAN, WILDERMANN /BÖHM

February 21, 1959 MACBETH* commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz WARREN, RYSANEK, HINES, BERGONZI /LEINSDORF

February 28, 1959 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* commentary before and after each act except after act 1 PEERCE, STELLA, MERRILL, MADEIRA, HURLEY /SCHIPPERS

March 7, 1959 DIE MEISTERSINGER* fully complete with all intermissions and commentary; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz EDELMANN, NORDMO-LÖVBERG, FEIERSINGER, RESNIK, FRANKE, DOENCH, TOZZI /BÖHM

March 14, 1959 WOZZECK (nearly complete with all intermissions and commentary (missing very end);, Pre-Curtain feature - Boris Goldovsky introduces Wozzeck; 1st intermission Opera News, Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz) UHDE, STEBER, FRANKE, BAUM, DOENCH /BÖHM

March 21, 1959 BORIS GODUNOV commentary before and after each act and between scenes, 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera. SIEPI, KULLMAN, TOZZI, GARI, RANKIN, HARVUOT, ALVARY /MITROPOULOS

March 28, 1959 RIGOLETTO* (commentary before act 4 and after each act; part of 3rd intermission Opera News with Mrs August Belmont and Robert Merrill) WARREN, PETERS, FERNANDI, WILDERMANN, ROGGERO /CLEVA

April 4, 1959 DON CARLO* (commentary before acts 1 & 2, after each act, between most scenes; 1st intermission Opera News, Gladys Swarthout & Norman Della Joio discuss the opera, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz) GARI, RYSANEK, MERRILL, THEBOM, HINES, UHDE /CLEVA

April 11, 1959 TOSCA* commentary before act 1, after each act STEBER, BERGONZI, LONDON /ADLER

 

1959-60

November 28, 1959 AIDA (commentary before and after each act and between scenes, with pre-curtain preview of the season with Bing; 3rd intermission Roving Reporter Clinton Fadiman interviews Elisabeth Rethberg, Licia Albanese and others about the 20th year of Texaco sponsorship) AMARA, UZUNOV, RANKIN, WARREN, TOZZI /CLEVA

December 5, 1959 THE GYPSY BARON commentary before and after each act GEDDA, DELLA CASA, RESNIK, W. SLEZAK, HURLEY /LEINSDORF

December 12, 1959 MANON commentary before each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky, Bidu Sayao and Cesare Valetti discuss Manon DE LOS ANGELES, GEDDA, HERBERT, TOZZI /MOREL

December 19, 1959 FAUST complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Clifton Fadiman and George London discuss operatic characterisation BJÖRLING, SÖDERSTRÖM, SIEPI, MERRILL, MILLER /MOREL

December 26, 1959 DER ROSENKAVALIER commentary before and after each act except before act 3; 1st intermission Opera News John Gutman interviews Lotte Lehmann LUDWIG, DELLA CASA, CZERWENKA, SÖDERSTRÖM, HERBERT, AMPARAN, FERNANDI /LEINSDORF

January 2, 1960 MACBETH commentary before and after each act except before act 4 and between some scenes WARREN, RYSANEK, HINES, BARIONI /LEINSDORF

January 9, 1960 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE commentary before and after each act NILSSON, VINAY, DALIS, HINES, CASSEL /BÖHM

January 16, 1960 PELLEAS ET MELISANDE (commentary before and after each act) DE LOS ANGELES, UPPMAN, LONDON, TOZZI, RESNIK /MOREL

January 23, 1960 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO* commentary before acts 1 and 4, after each act, 3rd intermission Roving Reporter Clifton Fadiman interviews Yehudi Menuhin SIEPI, SOEDERSTRÖM, DELLA CASA, BORG, MILLER, RESNIK, FLAGELLO /LEINSDORF

January 30, 1960 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA commentary after the opera, conductors roundtable RANKIN, PEERCE, CASSEL, VANNI /MITROPOULOS

January 30, 1960 PAGLIACCI commentary after the opera BAUM, AMARA, MERRILL, GUARRERA /MITROPOULOS

February 6, 1960 CARMEN commentary after act 4 STEVENS, TUCKER, AMARA, GUARRERA /MOREL

February 13, 1960 FIDELIO* commentary before and after each act pre-curtain discussion of the opera with Boris Goldovksy and Birgit Nilsson NILSSON, VICKERS, UHDE, CZERWENKA, HURLEY, ANTHONY /BÖHM

February 20, 1960 DIE WALKÜRE complete with all commentary; 1st intermission Opera News Rysanek, Resnik and Uhde discuss the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz NILSSON, NORDMO-LOVBERG, VICKERS, HINES, DAILS, ERNSTER /BÖHM

February 27, 1960 IL TROVATORE* (commentary before and after each scene except Act 2 Sc 1 and Act 3 Sc 1) BERGONZI, STELLA, BASTIANINI, SIMIONATO, WILDERMANN /CLEVA

March 5, 1960 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER* (ALSO LA TRAVIATA ACT III PRELUDE IN MEMORY OF WARREN) (commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera) LONDON, RYSANEK, TOZZI, LIEBL /SCHIPPERS

March 12, 1960 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* commentary before and after each act, and between scenes; 1st Intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence interviews Rosa Ponselle TEBALDI, TUCKER, SERENI, HINES, BACCALONI, DUNN /SCHIPPERS

March 19, 1960 TOSCA commentary before and after ach act MILANOV, FERNANDI, CASSEL /MITROPOULOS

March 26, 1960 ANDREA CHENIER commentary before and after each act; 1st Intermission Opera News Robert Merrill and Jan Peerce discuss Chenier TUCKER, TEBALDI, BASTIANINI, ROGGERO /CLEVA

April 2, 1960 SIMON BOCCANEGRA* commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovksy and Lawrence Tibbett analyse the opera GUARRERA, MILANOV, TOZZI, BERGONZI, FLAGELLO /MITROPOULOS

April 9, 1960 PARSIFAL* commentary before and after each act except before act 2 LIEBL, HARSHAW, UHDE, HINES, PECHNER /LEINSDORF

April 16, 1960 MADAMA BUTTERFLY* KIRSTEN, FERNANDI, ROGGERO, SERENI, KULLMAN /MITROPOULOS

 

1960-61

December 3, 1960 NABUCCO* commentary before and after each act and between scenes. Pre-Curtain talk by Bing, first intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera. MACNEIL, RYSANEK, FERNANDI, ELIAS, SIEPI /SCHIPPERS

December 10, 1960 MANON LESCAUT (commentary before and after each act except after act 3;, 1st intermission Opera News John Brownlee leads an analysis of the opera with Giovanni Martinelli, 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Ezio Pinza) KIRSTEN, BERGONZI, SERENI, BACCALONI /CLEVA

December 17, 1960 TANNHÄUSER* (commentary before and after each act) HOPF, RYSANEK, DALIS, PREY, HINES /SOLTI

December 24, 1960 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* (commentary before and after both acts) FORMICHINI, SOEDERSTRÖM, GUARRERA, CORENA /CLEVA

December 31, 1960 RIGOLETTO commentary before and after each act; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Geraldine Farrar MACNEIL, PETERS, MORELL, TOZZI, DUNN /VERCHI

January 7, 1961 BORIS GODUNOV commentary throughout LONDON, KELLEY, TOZZI, SULLIVAN, DUNN, BORG, FLAGELLO, FRANKE /LEINSDORF

January 14, 1961 DON GIOVANNI commentary before and after both acts and between scenes, fragment of quiz SIEPI, STEBER, DELLA CASA, CORENA, HURLEY, GEDDA, UPPMAN, WILDERMANN /LEINSDORF

January 21, 1961 ARABELLA in LOC commentary after each act and before act 2, 1st intermission Opera News John Gutman interviews Lotte Lehmann DELLA CASA, LONDON, ROTHENBERGER, MORELL, DUNN, HERBERT, HURLEY /LEINSDORF

January 28, 1961 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO* commentary before and after each act, except after acts 1 & 3; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Giovanni Martinelli SIEPI, PETERS, AMARA, BORG, MILLER, RESNIK, FLAGELLO /LEINSDORF

February 4, 1961 IL TROVATORE* complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Singer's Roundtable with Eleanor Steber, Regina Resnik, Nicolai Gedda and Frank Guarrera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Amelia Galli-Curci CORELLI, PRICE, SERENI, DALIS, WILDERMANN /CLEVA

February 11, 1961 ALCESTIS commentary before each act and after act 3 FARRELL, GEDDA, CASSEL /ADLER

February 18, 1961 SIMON BOCCANEGRA commentary before prologue, act 1 and act 3, after each act, and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky talks to Zinka Milanov; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz [fragment 45 sec] GUARRERA, TEBALDI, TUCKER, TOZZI, FLAGELLO /VERCHI

February 25, 1961 MARTHA commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky discusses Bel Canto with Sutherland and Bonynge DE LOS ANGELES, TUCKER, ELIAS, TOZZI, ALVARY /VERCHI

March 4, 1961 TURANDOT (complete with all commentary and both intermissions; 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky anaylses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz) NILSSON, CORELLI, MOFFO, GIAIOTTI /STOKOWSKI

March 11, 1961 LA BOHEME* commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission Opera News [incomplete] Downes discusses the orchestra, 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Rosa Ponselle DE LOS ANGELES, MORELL, KRALL, TESTI, REITAN, WILDERMANN /SCHICK

March 18, 1961 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE* NILSSON, LIEBL, DALIS, HINES, CASSEL /ROSENSTOCK

March 25, 1961 ELEKTRA* (commentary after the opera) BORKH, RYSANEK, MADEIRA, VINAY, UHDE /ROSENSTOCK

April 1, 1961 LA GIOCONDA in LOC commentary before acts 1 3, & 4, after each act; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Feodor Chaliapin MILANOV, BAUM, RANKIN, MERRILL, DUNN, WILDERMANN /SCHICK

April 8, 1961 WOZZECK in LOC commentary before acts 2 and 3, after each act; 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; post curtain feature on National Council winners UHDE, STEBER, BAUM, FRANKE, HERBERT, ANTHONY /BÖHM

April 15, 1961 DON CARLO* (commentary before acts 1 & 3 and after each act and between some scenes) CORELLI, CURTIS-VERNA, SERENI, HINES, DALIS, UHDE /VERCHI

 

1961-62

December 9, 1961 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Bonynge discusses the art of the Coloratura SUTHERLAND, TUCKER, GUARRERA, MOSCONA /VARVISO

December 16, 1961 DAS RHEINGOLD (commentary before and after the opera; pre-curtain feature Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera) LONDON, DALIS, HERBERT, LIEBL, MADEIRA, HINES, WIEMANN /LEINSDORF

December 23, 1961 DIE WALKÜRE* (commentary before act 1 & 2, after each act; 1st intermission Opera News George London and Jean Madeira talk about the opera with Boris Goldovsky; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz) NILSSON, KUCHTA, VICKERS, EDELMANN, DALIS, WIEMANN /LEINSDORF

December 30, 1961 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* commentary before and after each act; 2nd Intermission Opera Quiz (first 8 mins) FARRELL, TUCKER, MERRILL, HINES, VANNI, CORENA /SCHICK

January 6, 1962 LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence and Leontyne Price discuss Puccini's Girl; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz) KIRSTEN, TUCKER, COLZANI /CLEVA

January 13, 1962 SIEGFRIED (commentary before acts 1 & 3, after each act, intermission features: Dalis and Hines talk about the opera, opera quiz) HOPF, NILSSON, KUEN, LONDON, MADEIRA, HERBERT /LEINSDORF

January 20, 1962 LA BOHEME* commentary before and after each act; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Lawrence Tibbett AMARA, MORELL, HURLEY, TESTI, REITAN, GIAIOTTI /RICH

January 27, 1962 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG* (commentary before acts 1 and 2, after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky and Robert Lawrence analyse the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz) NILSSON, HOPF, MITTELMANN, KUCHTA, FRICK, DALIS, HERBERT /LEINSDORF

February 3, 1962 MADAMA BUTTERFLY commentary before act 2, after acts 1 & 2 TUCCI, BERGONZI, VANNI, HARVUOT, VELIS /CLEVA

February 10, 1962 LA PERICHOLE commentary before and after each act; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz HURLEY, UPPMAN, RITCHARD /MOREL

February 17, 1962 SALOME* commentary before and after the opera; pre-curtain feature Francis Robinson and Marjorie Lawrence analyse the opera B. LEWIS, VINAY, THEBOM, CASSEL, OLVIS /ROSENSTOCK

February 24, 1962 TURANDOT complete with all commentary and intermissions;, 1st intermission Opera News John Gutman and Rosa Raisa discuss Turandot; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz NILSSON, CORELLI, ALBANESE, FLAGELLO /ADLER

March 3, 1962 AIDA* complete with all commentary and intermissions (missing 3rd intermission Biographies in Music); 1st intermission Instruments of the Orchestra; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz TUCCI, CORELLI, DALIS, MACNEIL, TOZZI /SCHICK

March 10, 1962 ORFEO ED EURIDICE* 1st Intermission Opera News Edward Downes interviews Franco Zefferelli MEYER, AMARA /MOREL

March 17, 1962 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* commentary before and after each act BERGONZI, RYSANEK, MERRILL, MADEIRA, ROTHENBERGER /SANTI

March 24, 1962 MACBETH* commentary before act 2, after each act COLZANI, RYSANEK, TOZZI, BERGONZI /ROSENSTOCK

March 31, 1962 LA GIOCONDA* commentary before act 4, after act 1, act 3 sc 1, act 3 sc 2 and act 4 FARRELL, CORELLI, RANKIN, MERRILL, DUNN, TOZZI /CLEVA

April 7, 1962 TOSCA* commentary before acts 1 & 2, after each act PRICE, CORELLI, MACNEIL /ADLER

April 14, 1962 COSI FAN TUTTE tour performance from Boston, commentary before and after each act and between scenes STICH-RANDALL, SHIRLEY, ELIAS, UPPMAN, PETERS, GUARRERA /ROSENSTOCK

April 21, 1962 LA TRAVIATA* commentary before act 3, after each act; 1st intermission Biographies in Music Elisabeth Rethberg, 3rd intermission Bing Round-Up MOFFO, MORELL, SERENI /STRASFOGEL

 

1962-63

September 29, 1962 EL AMOR BRUJO MADEIRA /ANSERMET ?exist

September 29, 1962 ATLANTIDA FARRELL, MADEIRA, LONDON /ANSERMET ?exist

December 1, 1962 ERNANI commentary before act 1 (including Bing's introduction to the season) and act 4, after acts 1, 2 and 3; 1st intermission Opera News (partial) discussion of the opera with Price, MacNeil and Schippers; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Ernestine Schumann-Heink BERGONZI, PRICE, MACNEIL, TOZZI /SCHIPPERS

December 8, 1962 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA commentary before and after the opera DALIS, MORELL, CASSEL, ELIAS /CLEVA

December 8, 1962 PAGLIACCI commentary before and after the opera BERGONZI, KABAIVANSKA, SERENI, MITTELMANN /CLEVA

December 15, 1962 AIDA commentary before and after each act; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Tito Schipa AMARA, BERGONZI, GORR, SERENI, SIEPI /SANTI

December 22, 1962 DER ROSENKAVALIER* commentary before and after each act TÖPPER, CRESPIN, EDELMANN, ROTHENBERGER, HERBERT, ELIAS, KONYA /MAAZEL

December 29, 1962 PELLEAS ET MELISANDE commentary before and after each act; pre-curtain Ernest Ansermet talks about the opera; 1st intermission Opera News Edward Downes interviews Ernest Ansermet; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (part) GEDDA, MOFFO, LONDON, THEBOM, HINES /ANSERMET

January 5, 1963 DIE MEISTERSINGER commentary after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky and Walter Slezak discuss humour in opera EDELMANN, DELLA CASA, KONYA, DOENCH, VANNI, ANTHONY, FLAGELLO /ROSENSTOCK

January 12, 1963 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* commentary before and after each act and between scenes TUCKER, NILSSON, MERRILL, MADEIRA, DOBBS /SANTI

January 19, 1963 DON GIOVANNI commentary before and after both acts and between scenes SIEPI, PRICE, AMARA, CORENA, HURLEY, PEERCE, UPPMAN, WIEMANN /MAAZEL

January 26, 1963 FIDELIO (commentary before and after both acts; intermission Birgit Nilsson and Joan Sutherland discuss vocal terms), NILSSON, VICKERS, RASKIN, MEREDITH, WIEMANN, ANTHONY /BÖHM

February 2, 1963 ARIADNE AUF NAXOS commentary before and after both acts; pre-curtain feature Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; intermission John Gutman interviews Lotte Lehmann and Maria Jertiza RYSANEK, PETERS, MEYER, THOMAS, UPPMAN /BÖHM

February 9, 1963 ADRIANA LECOUVREUR* commentary before each act, after acts 2 & 4, 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Kirsten Flagstad, TEBALDI, CORELLI, COLZANI, CVEJIC /VARVISO *

February 16, 1963 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER* commentary after act 1 and before act 2, 1st intermission Eric Leinsdorf discusses the opera LONDON, RYSANEK, TOZZI, KONYA /BÖHM

February 23, 1963 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE commentary before acts 2 & 3, after each act, 1st intermission Edward Downes discusses the opera with Fritz Reiner; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz LIEBL, NILSSON, DALIS, CASSEL, HINES /SOLTI

March 2, 1963 ANDREA CHENIER commentary before and after each act, intermissions 1st intermission Opera News (partial 1 min), 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (partial 11 mins), 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Mary Garden TUCKER, MILANOV, COLZANI, VANNI /CLEVA

March 9, 1963 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA* commentary before and after each act except before act 2 GUARRERA, D'ANGELO, SHIRLEY, CORENA, TOZZI, ROGGERO /STRASFOGEL

March 16, 1963 LA TRAVIATA complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Zefferelli interview; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Leo Slezak extract (5min) TUCCI, MORELL, MERRILL /CLEVA

March 23, 1963 OTELLO commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Cornelia Otis Skinner compares Othello and Otello; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Gladys Swarthout and Frank Chapman MCCRACKEN, TUCCI, MERRILL, FRANKE, MARTIN /SOLTI

March 30, 1963 LA SONNAMBULA* commentary before each act, after acts 2 and 3; 1st intermission Opera News Bonynge analyses Sonnambula, post curtain Howard J Hook, Jr, introduces the National Council winner, Justino Diaz SUTHERLAND, GEDDA, FLAGELLO, SCOVOTTI /VARVISO

April 6, 1963 BORIS GODUNOV commentary before acts 1, 3 and 4 and after acts 1, 2 and 4; 1st intermission John Gutman discusses the opera with Solti HINES, FRANKE, TOZZI, GEDDA, ELIAS, CASSEL, ALVARY /SOLTI

April 13, 1963 DER FLEDERMAUS commentary before act 2, after each act; 1st intermission Opera Quiz KIRSTEN, ALEXANDER, SCOVOTTI, FORMICHINI, MADEIRA, GUARRERA /VARVISO

 

1963-64

December 7, 1963 AIDA in LOC commentary before act 4, after each act and between some scenes; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Maria Jeritza PRICE, BERGONZI, GORR, SERENI, SIEPI /SOLTI

December 14, 1963 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (commentary after acts 2 & 3, 1st intermission Edward Downes interviews Birgit Nilsson; 2nd intermission - Opera Quiz [part]) NILSSON, HOPF, WEIMANN, CURTIS-VERNA, MITTELMANN, DUNN, PECHNER /ROSENSTOCK

December 21, 1963 MANON* 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Giovanni Martinelli (repeat from 28 January 1961) MOFFO, GEDDA, GUARRERA, TOZZI /SCHIPPERS

December 28, 1963 DON GIOVANNI (commentary at the end of the opera) SIEPI, KUCHTA, PEERCE, AMARA, CORENA, SCOVOTTI, UPPMAN, GIAIOTTI /ROSENSTOCK

January 4, 1964 FAUST* commentary before and after each act except before act 2; 3rd intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence and Raymond Gniewek discuss "The Violin in Opera". MORELL, MOFFO, SIEPI, RUZDAK, MARTIN /CLEVA

January 11, 1964 LA TRAVIATA commentary before acts 1 & 4 after each act; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Lotte Lehmann SUTHERLAND, GEDDA, SERENI /SCHICK

January 18, 1964 IL TROVATORE commentary before acts 1, 3 & 4, after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Edward Downes interviews Price, 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Bidu Sayao TUCKER, PRICE, MERRILL, DALIS, MACURDY /SCHIPPERS

January 25, 1964 MAGIC FLUTE in LOC (complete - with commentary before and after both acts; intermission Opera News Marcia Davenport discusses Mozart) AMARA, SHIRLEY, PETERS, SIEPI /VARVISO

February 1, 1964 LOHENGRIN* commentary before and after each act KONYA, CRESPIN, RANKIN, CASSEL, WIEMANN /ROSENSTOCK

February 8, 1964 THE LAST SAVAGE commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission Opera News Edward Downes interviews Menotti LONDON, PETERS, STRATAS, GEDDA, FLAGELLO /SCHIPPERS

February 15, 1964 OTELLO* commentary before and after each act; 3rd intermission Bing replies to letters MCCRACKEN, RYSANEK, COLZANI, MARTIN, ALEXANDER /SANTI

February 22, 1964 RIGOLETTO* commentary before each act, after acts 2 & 4 MERRILL, PETERS, TUCKER, DUNN, GIAIOTTI /CLEVA

February 29, 1964 EUGENE ONEGIN commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovksy analyses Eugene Onegin; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz DOOLEY, PRICE, THOMAS, ELIAS, TOZZI /SCHIPPERS

March 7, 1964 DON CARLO* commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Bing answers audience mail CORELLI, RYSANEK, HERLEA, DALIS, TOZZI, UHDE /ADLER

March 14, 1964 LA BOHEME* commentary before and after each act, except before act 3 TEBALDI, KONYA, HURLEY, GUARRERA, HARVUOT, HINES /CLEVA

March 21, 1964 FALSTAFF commentary before and after each scene; 1st intermission Opera News with Robert Lawrence, Regina Resnik and Geraint Evans; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz COLZANI, TUCCI, SERENI, RESNIK, RASKIN, ALVA, ELIAS /BERNSTEIN

March 28, 1964 PARSIFAL (ACT III,1) commentary before and after performance THOMAS, HINES /SOLTI

March 28, 1964 VERDI REQUIEM* intermission, commentary before and after performance PRICE, ELIAS, BERGONZI, SIEPI /SOLTI

April 4, 1964 MACBETH commentary before acts 1, 2 and 3 and after act 3 and 4, short feature on audition winners at the end MACNEIL, DALIS, GIAIOTTI, MORELL /SANTI

April 11, 1964 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA commentary after the opera FARRELL, TUCKER, BARDELLI, MILLER /SANTI

April 11, 1964 PAGLIACCI CORELLI, AMARA, COLZANI, MARSH /CLEVA commentary before act 2 and after each act, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

April 18, 1964 TOSCA tour performance from Boston, commentary before acts 1 & 2, after each act, 1st intermission Opera Quiz, 2nd intermission Bing reviews the season and looks forward to next year NILSSON, CORELLI, LONDON /CLEVA

 

1964-65

December 5, 1964 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* commentary before each act, after act 3, and between scenes SUTHERLAND, KONYA, HERLEA, GIAIOTTI /VARVISO

December 12, 1964 RIGOLETTO commentary before and after each act; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Geraldine Farrar [repeat from 31 December 1960] MACNEIL, D'ANGELO, BERGONZI, DIAZ, CASEI /SANTI

December 19, 1964 DER ROSENKAVALIER* commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Gutman interviews Schwarzkopf; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, DELLA CASA, SCHWARZKOPF, EDELMANN, RASKIN, DOENCH, KRIESE, MORELL /SCHIPPERS

December 26, 1964 SAMSON ET DALILA* commentary before and after each act except after act 2; 1st intermission Opera News Pretre interview (fragment) THOMAS, DALIS, BACQUIER, DIAZ, MACURDY /PRETRE

January 2, 1965 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO commentary before and after each act, plus opera quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Beniamino Gigli TOZZI, RASKIN, DELLA CASA, PREY, STRATAS, KRIESE, ESPARZA /ROSENSTOCK

January 9, 1965 LES SYLPHIDES / DON PASQUALE* nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions (missing part of the opening commentary); 1st intermission Opera news Robert Lawrence discusses Don Pasquale with Bidu Sayao and Franck Guarerra; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Claudia Muzio CORENA, PETERS, ALVA, GUARRERA /VARVISO

January 16, 1965 TURANDOT commentary before and after each act, quiz fragment NILSSON, THOMAS, AMARA, GIAIOTTI /CLEVA

January 23, 1965 FALSTAFF* (commentary before and after each act, and v. brief commentary between scenes) in LOC EVANS, TUCCI, RASKIN, RESNIK, SERENI, MILLER, SHIRLEY /ROSENSTOCK

January 30, 1965 SIMON BOCCANEGRA* commentary before prologue and act 2, after act 3; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovksy and Lawrence Tibbett analyse the opera [repeat from 2 Apr 1960] 2nd intermission Opera Quiz COLZANI, TEBALDI, SHIRLEY, HINES, DIAZ /CLEVA

February 6, 1965 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* (commentary before act 1, after each act, and between scenes; first intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence and Ponselle discuss Forza [repeat from 12 March 1960]) TUCCI, CORELLI, BASTIANINI, TOZZI, ESPARZA, GRILLO /SANTI

February 13, 1965 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER commentary before and after each act WARD, RYSANEK, TOZZI, KONYA /BÖHM

February 20, 1965 COSI FAN TUTTE commentary before and after each act, pre curtain feature and intermission Opera News William Weaver discusses Mozart and Prague PRICE, TUCKER, ELIAS, UPPMAN, PETERS, GUARRERA /ROSENSTOCK

February 27, 1965 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN* commentary before and after each act ALEXANDER, DOOLEY, SCOVOTTI, CVEJIC, AMARA, MARTIN, VELIS /VARVISO

March 6, 1965 DIE WALKÜRE commentary before act 1 and after each act; 1st intermission Edward Downes interviews Birgit Nilsson and William Steinberg NILSSON, RYSANEK, VICKERS, LONDON, DALIS, WARD /STEINBERG

March 13, 1965 DON JUAN/SALOME* commentary before and after the opera and the tone poem; intermission Edward Downes analyses the opera (incomplete 10 mins) NILSSON, CASSEL, LIEBL, DALIS, SHIRLEY /BÖHM

March 20, 1965 AIDA commentary before and after each act; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Luisa Tetrazzini NILSSON, TUCKER, CERNEI, MACNEIL, TOZZI /STEINBERG

March 27, 1965 MADAMA BUTTERFLY commentary before each act and after acts 1 and 3; 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver discusses Puccini and Giacosa in America KIRSTEN, MORELL, BALDWIN, UPPMAN, FRANKE /SCHICK

April 3, 1965 VANESSA* commentary before the opera and after each act; met opera audition winner performs at end COSTA, ALEXANDER, ELIAS, THEBOM, TOZZI /STEINBERG

April 10, 1965 ERNANI* commentary before and after each act; intermissions: 1st intermission Opera News Callas interview; 2nd intermission Opera quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Marion Anderson, CORELLI, PRICE, SERENI, SIEPI /SCHIPPERS

April 17, 1965 TOSCA* complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera Quiz; 2nd intermission Opera News Rudolf Bing looks back at the season CRESPIN, KONYA, MERRILL /CLEVA

 

1965-66

December 4, 1965 IL TROVATORE commentary before and after each act (except before act 3), and between scenes; 3rd Intermission Biographies in Music Lucretia Bori; Post curtain feature on National Council Auditions. PREVEDI, TUCCI, MERRILL, CVEJIC, GIAIOTTI /PRETRE

December 11, 1965 DON CARLO (commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Martin Mayer interviews Rudolph Bing) PREVEDI, ARROYO, BASTIANINI, HINES, CVEJIC, DIAZ /SCHIPPERS

December 18, 1965 ARABELLA commentary before act 1 after each act DELLA CASA, DOOLEY, ROTHENBERGER, THEBOM, GRAMM, MORELL, SCOVOTTI /PRETRE

December 25, 1965 LA PERICHOLE commentary before and after each act ; 1st intermission Opera News Birgit Nilsson and Joan Sutherland illustrate voices [repeat from Jan 26, 1963], 2nd intermission Opera Quiz STRATAS, RITCHARD, UPPMAN /ALLERS

January 1, 1966 MADAMA BUTTERFLY* commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Singers' roundtable with Milanov, Gedda and Diaz SCOTTO, ALEXANDER, GRILLO, DUNLAP, SCHMORR /SCHICK

January 8, 1966 LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Kirsten and Tucker discuss Fanciulla, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz with Resnik, Maisiello & Mayer KIRSTEN, CORELLI, COLZANI /BEHR

January 15, 1966 THE QUEEN OF SPADES commentary before acts 1 and 2, after acts 2 and 3 and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera MCCRACKEN, STRATAS, MADEIRA, WALKER, CASSEL, ELIAS /SCHIPPERS

January 22, 1966 FIDELIO* (commentary before and after each act; intermission Opera News Edward Downes analyses Fidelio) NILSSON, KING, EVANS, EDELMANN, PRACHT, ANTHONY /BÖHM

January 29, 1966 DON GIOVANNI commentary before and after each act, intermission Opera Quiz SIEPI, STICH-RANDALL, SCHWARZKOPF, EVANS, ELIAS, PEERCE, UPPMAN, GHIUSELEV /ROSENSTOCK

February 5, 1966 ANDREA CHENIER complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Martin Mayer discusses the Metropolitan Opera National Company with Risë Stevens and Michael Manuel; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Louise Homer CORELLI, TEBALDI, COLZANI, CASEI /GARDELLI

February 12, 1966 AIDA commentary before and after each act except before act 4: 1st intermission Opera News, Marcia Davenport relives Met history with Mary Ellis Peltz and Irving Kolodin; 2nd intermission Quiz, 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Nellie Melba PRICE, TUCKER, DALIS, MERRILL, GHIUSELEV /MEHTA

February 19, 1966 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR commentary after each act and before act 3; 1st intermission Opera Quiz PETERS, KONYA, GUARRERA, DIAZ /VARVISO 

February 26, 1966 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence discusses the horn section; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz [90 sec fragment] BERGONZI, PRICE, MERRILL, PETERS, DUNN /MOLINARI-PRADELLI

March 5, 1966 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* commentary before and after act 1, after act 2; Intermission Biographies in Music History of the Met pt. 1 BERGONZI, PETERS, GUARRERA, CORENA /SCHIPPERS

March 12, 1966 MANON LESCAUT* complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence and Raymond Gniewek discuss the violin in opera [repeat from 4 Jan 1964]; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music History of the Met pt.2 KABAIVANSKA, TUCKER, WALKER, ESPARZA /ADLER

March 19, 1966 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA* commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz [4 mins] HERLEA, GRIST, SHIRLEY, CORENA, SIEPI, KRIESE /VARVISO

March 26, 1966 TANNHÄUSER* commentary after each acts; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz [5m fragment - Nilsson cylinder prank]. NUOTIO, NILSSON, STEWART, MACURDY /ROSENSTOCK

April 2, 1966 PARSIFAL commentary before and after each act; 1st Intermission Opera News Edward Downes analyses Parsifal; 2nd intermission Opera quiz. KONYA, CRESPIN, HINES, CASSEL, MEREDITH /PRETRE

April 9, 1966 FAUST commentary before act 1 and after each act GEDDA, FENN, SIEPI, WALKER, BALDWIN /PRETRE

April 16, 1966 LA BOHEME complete commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Biographies in Music History of the Met pt. 3; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Bing reviews the season and looks forward to the new house TUCCI, TUCKER, KRALL, SERENI, HARVUOT, HINES /SCHICK

 

1966-1967

September 16, 1966 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA* fully complete with both intermissions, interviews with various singers and stars backstage PRICE, DIAZ, THOMAS, FLAGELLO, ELIAS /SCHIPPERS

December 3, 1966 TURANDOT* commentary before and after each act NILSSON, CORELLI, FRENI, GIAIOTTI /MEHTA

December 10, 1966 ELEKTRA commentary before and after the opera, pre-curtain interview with Birgit Nilsson NILSSON, RYSANEK, RESNIK, KING, DOOLEY /SCHIPPERS

December 17, 1966 DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN* complete with all commentary and intermissions;1st intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence analyses Frau with Rysanek and Dalis; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, RYSANEK, KING, LUDWIG, BERRY, DALIS /BÖHM

December 24, 1966 FAUST commentary before act 2, and after act 3 ALEXANDER, TUCCI, DIAZ, WALKER, BALDWIN /LOMBARD

December 31, 1966 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky discusses Bel Canto with Sutherland and Bonynge [repeat from 25 Feb 1961]; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz SUTHERLAND, TUCKER, COLZANI, GHIUSELEV /BONYNGE

January 7, 1967 DIE FLEDERMAUS commentary before acts 1 & 3 and after each act, 2nd intermission Opera quiz, COSTA, REARDON, PETERS, SERGI, CARLISLE, GRAMM /ALLERS

January 14, 1967 DIE MEISTERSINGER commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence interviews Christa Ludwig and Walter Berry TOZZI, FENN, KONYA, DOENCH, DICKIE, MILLER, FLAGELLO /ROSENSTOCK

January 21, 1967 LOHENGRIN commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Peter Lehmann recalls Wieland Wagner, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz KONYA, BJONER, LUDWIG, BERRY, MACURDY /BÖHM

January 28, 1967 DON GIOVANNI commentary before act 2, after each act; intermission Opera Quiz, in LOC SIEPI, SUTHERLAND, LORENGAR, FLAGELLO, HURLEY, GEDDA, UPPMAN, GIAIOTTI /BÖHM

February 4, 1967 LA BOHEME* commentary before and after each act, 1st & 3rd intermissions Biographies in Music Mary Garden, 2nd intermission Quiz STRATAS, G. RAIMONDI, BOWER, SERENI, HARVUOT, TOZZI /CLEVA

February 11, 1967 PETER GRIMES* commentary before and after each act 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Peter Grimes VICKERS, AMARA, EVANS, MADEIRA, CHOOKASIAN /C. DAVIS

February 18, 1967 IL TROVATORE* commentary before act 3 sc 1, act 3 sc 2, act 4 sc 1, after act 1, act 2, act 3 sc 2 and act 4 sc 2; 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver at the premiere of Alzira in Rome (slight gap), 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Alexander Kipnis TUCKER, ARROYO, CVEJIC, MERRILL, MICHALSKI /MOLINARI-PRADELLI

February 25, 1967 AIDA* commentary before act 4, after acts 2 and 4; 1st intermission Opera News Francis Robinson & Peggy Wood on Emma Calve (incomplete), 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (incomplete) 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Emma Calve PRICE, BERGONZI, BUMBRY, MERRILL, HINES /SCHIPPERS

March 4, 1967 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE* commentary before both acts, briefly after act 1; intermission Opera News Clifton Fadiman interviews Bruno Walter (repeat from April 7, 1956), Edward Downes then analyses Flute (in LOC) SHIRLEY, RASKIN, UPPMAN, PETERS, MACURDY, DI FRANCO, VELIS /KRIPS

March 11, 1967 OTELLO* complete with all commentary and intermissions, 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver interviews Tito Gobbi, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Rosa Ponselle MCCRACKEN, CABALLE, GOBBI, LOVE, LORENZI /MEHTA

March 18, 1967 MADAMA BUTTERFLY* commentary before and after acts 1 and 2 SCOTTO, SHIRLEY, CASEI, BOTTCHER, VELIS /MOLINARI-PRADELLI

March 25, 1967 LA TRAVIATA complete with all commentary and intermissions; all three intermissions on Toscanini MOFFO, MORELL, MERRILL /PRETRE

April 1, 1967 MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA* commentary before and after each act and between some scenes, 1st intermission Opera News The composer and singers analyse the opera; 2nd intermission Quiz LEAR, REARDON, COLLIER, MILNES, MACURDY /MEHTA

April 8, 1967 RIGOLETTO* commentary before acts 1 and 2, after each act, 1st intermission: Opera News William Weaver discusses Verdi's songs with Gabriella Tucci; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Preview of the Met's Verdi Festival MACNEIL, PETERS, GEDDA, GIAIOTTI, AMPARAN /GARDELLI

April 15, 1967 LA GIOCONDA* commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Biographies in Music of those with portraits hanging in the Met; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Bing looks back at the year TEBALDI, MORELL, ELIAS, MACNEIL, SIEPI, BALDANI /CLEVA

 

1967-68

December 9, 1967 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO* commentary before and after each act; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Richard Crooks SIEPI, FRENI, DELLA CASA, KRAUSE, STRATAS, CORENA, WILLIAMS /ROSENSTOCK

December 16, 1967 FALSTAFF* commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Orchestra roundtable FLAGELLO, CURTIN, GUARRERA, BARBIERI, RASKIN, ALVA, MILLER /AMADUCCI

December 23, 1967 HANSEL UND GRETEL commentary before the opera, including pre-opera talk recalling the 1st met broadcast in 1931 (repeat from 29 December 1956) , and after both acts STRATAS, ELIAS, CHOOKASIAN, DOENCH, WALKER /ALLERS

December 30, 1967 LA TRAVIATA commentary before and after each act: 1st intermission Downes interviews Callas; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Marjorie Lawrence MOFFO, ALEXANDER, SERENI /CLEVA

January 6, 1968 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE* commentary after each act; intermission Opera News on the Metropolitan Opera Studio SCHREIER, LORENGAR, UPPMAN, DEUTEKOM, HINES, P. WELTING, FRANKE /ROSENSTOCK

January 13, 1968 TOSCA* commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Downes interviews Callas CRESPIN, G. RAIMONDI, BACQUIER /MEHTA

January 20, 1968 AIDA* commentary before acts 1 & 3, after each act; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music James Melton TUCCI, MCCRACKEN, DALIS, MILNES, GIAIOTTI /SCHIPPERS

January 27, 1968 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER* commentary before act 3, after each act; 2nd intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera MACNEIL, RYSANEK, TOZZI, PARLY /KLOBUCAR

February 3, 1968 MARTHA commentary before and after each act and between scenes FENN, ALEXANDER, ELIAS, GRAMM, ALVARY /ALLERS

February 10, 1968 LOHENGRIN* (commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Henry Butler talks to Bing about staging contemporary opera, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz) KONYA, ARROYO, DVORAKOVA, CASSEL, MACURDY /KLOBUCAR

February 17, 1968 LUISA MILLER* commentary before and after each act and between scenes, 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver discusses Miller, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz CABALLE, TUCKER, MILNES, PEARL, TOZZI, FLAGELLO /SCHIPPERS

February 24, 1968 DIE WALKÜRE* commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission Biographies in Music Lotte Lehmann NILSSON, RYSANEK, VICKERS, STEWART, LUDWIG, RIDDERBUSCH /KLOBUCAR

March 2, 1968 LA GIOCONDA* commentary before and after each act; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz [first 10 mins only], 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Lilli Lehmann TEBALDI, BERGONZI, COSSOTTO, MACNEIL, DUNN, GIAIOTTI /CLEVA

March 9, 1968 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovksy explores musical keys PRICE, CORELLI, MERRILL, HINES, CORENA, PEARL /MOLINARI-PRADELLI

March 16, 1968 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* commentary before and after both acts, intermission Opera Quiz KRAUS, PETERS, SERENI, CORENA /CLEVA

March 23, 1968 MANON LESCAUT* commentary before and after each act: 1st intermission Opera News John Gutman analyses Auber's Manon ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Elisabeth Schumann TEBALDI, ALEXANDER, GUARRERA, MICHALSKI /MOLINARI-PRADELLI

March 30, 1968 MADAMA BUTTERFLY commentary before & after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz STRATAS, MORELL, CASEI, UPPMAN, VELIS /GARDELLI

April 6, 1968 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA commentary before and after each act and between scenes, 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver interviews Gerald Moore; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz PREVEDI, PRICE, MERRILL, RANKIN, PETERS /SCHIPPERS

April 13, 1968 ROMEO ET JULIETTE* commentary after acts 2, 3 and 4; 1st intermission Opera News, Terry McEwen 'My Favourite Singers' GEDDA, FRENI, MACURDY, BALDWIN, REARDON /MOLINARI-PRADELLI

April 20, 1968 CARMEN* commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Biographies in Music John McCormack; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Bing looks back at the season BUMBRY, TUCKER, FRENI, DIAZ /MEHTA

 

1968-69

December 7, 1968 RIGOLETTO* commentary before and after each act: 1st intermission Opera News Bing greets the radio audience; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Risë Stevens MERRILL, MOFFO, BERGONZI, MICHALSKI, LOVE /CLEVA

December 14, 1968 SIMON BOCCANEGRA* (commentary before and after each act and scene; 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera) MACNEIL, TUCCI, SHIRLEY, HINES, MILNES /MOLINARI-PRADELLI

December 21, 1968 LA SONNAMBULA* (commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Performers Roundtable) SUTHERLAND, ALEXANDER, GIAIOTTI, BOKY /BONYNGE

December 28, 1968 DIE MEISTERSINGER commentary before and after each act TOZZI, FENN, KONYA, MILLER, DRISCOLL, DOENCH, FLAGELLO /ROSENSTOCK

January 4, 1969 DON GIOVANNI commentary between scenes and after both acts; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky explores musical keys in Mozart SIEPI, ARROYO, ZYLIS-GARA, FLAGELLO, ELIAS, SCHREIER, UPPMAN, MACURDY /VARVISO

January 11, 1969 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA commentary before and after each act SERENI, PETERS, ALVA, CORENA, TOZZI, LOVE /BONYNGE

January 18, 1969 FAUST (commentary before and after each act) GEDDA, LORENGAR, SIEPI, MERRILL, BALDWIN /VARVISO

January 25, 1969 LA BOHEME* (commentary before and after each act, 3rd intermission, Biographies in Music Dusolina Gianinni) TUCCI, LABO, FENN, WALKER, GOODLÖ, DIAZ /ADLER

February 1, 1969 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (commentary before and after each act and between scenes, 1st intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable) MOFFO, GEDDA, BRUSON, GIAIOTTI /FRANCI

February 8, 1969 DER ROSENKAVALIER* (commentary before acts 2 and 3 after each act, 1st intermission Opera News John Gutman interviews Lotte Lehmann (repeat from 26 December 1959), Leonie Rysanek and Christa Ludwig; 2nd intermission Biographies in Music Giovanni Martinelli (repeat from 28 January 1961)) LUDWIG, RYSANEK, BERRY, GRIST, KNOLL, ELIAS, GEDDA /BÖHM

February 15, 1969 TOSCA* (commentary before (brief) and after each act, opera quiz) NILSSON, DOMINGO, DOOLEY /SCHICK

February 22, 1969 DAS RHEINGOLD* (commentary before and after the opera; pre curtain feature, Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera) ADAM, REYNOLDS, KELEMAN, STOLZE, CHOOKASIAN, TALVELA, RIDDERBUSCH /KARAJAN

March 1, 1969 DIE WALKÜRE* commentary before and after each act, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (incomplete) NILSSON, VICKERS, CRESPIN, ADAM, VEASEY, TALVELA /KARAJAN

March 8, 1969 DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN (commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Die Frau ohne Schatten; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz) RYSANEK, KING, LUDWIG, BERRY, DALIS /BÖHM

March 15 1969 CARMEN* (commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission Opera News Henry Butler interviews Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Olive Fremstad) RESNIK, TUCKER, DIAZ /MEHTA

March 22, 1969 TURANDOT commentary before and after each act, part of 2nd intermission Opera Quiz LIPPERT, MCCRACKEN, ARROYO, GIAIOTTI /MEHTA

March 29, 1969 IL TROVATORE commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Henry Butler interviews Bing, 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Alessio De Paolis MCCRACKEN, PRICE, BUMBRY, MILNES, MACURDY /MEHTA

April 5, 1969 PETER GRIMES* commentary before and after each act except before act 2, 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Peter Grimes VICKERS, AMARA, EVANS, MADEIRA, CHOOKASIAN /C. DAVIS

April 12, 1969 WOZZECK commentary before and after each act EVANS, LEAR, FRANKE, GRAMM, NAGY /C. DAVIS

April 19, 1969 ADRIANA LECOUVREUR* commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Biographies in Music - Salute to the stars of the Vienna State Opera; 2nd intermission Actor's Roundtable with Cornelia Otis Skinner, Peggy Wood, Tony Randall and Cyril Ritchard TEBALDI, CORELLI, DALIS, COLZANI /CLEVA

 

1969-70

December 6, MACBETH [commercial recording aired due to a strike at the Met, but with live intermissions - intermissions in NYPL]

December 13, 1969 COSI FAN TUTTE [commercial recording aired due to a strike at the Met, but with live intermissions - intermissions in NYPL]

December 20, 1969 HANSEL UND GRETEL [commercial recording aired due to a strike at the Met, but with live intermissions - intermissions in NYPL]

December 27, 1969 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA [commercial recording aired due to a strike at the Met, but with live intermissions - intermissions in NYPL]

January 3, 1970 AIDA* PRICE, THOMAS, DALIS, MERRILL, MACURDY /MOLINARI-PRADELLI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st & 3rd intermissions Biographies in Music - Tribute to Texaco's first season of sponsorship Part I & 2; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

January 10, 1970 TOSCA commentary before and after each act: 1st intermission Opera News Birgit Nilsson and Joan Sutherland illustrate voices [repeat from Jan 26, 1963]; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz TEBALDI, KONYA, MACNEIL /MOLINARI-PRADELLI

January 17, 1970 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE commentary before and after each act GEDDA, ZYLIS-GARA, PREY, POPP, HINES, DI FRANCO, FRANKE /SKROWACZEWSKI

January 24, 1970 LA BOHEME* commentary before and after each act: 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Richard Tucker TEBALDI, TUCKER, CARSON, WALKER, BOUCHER, SIEPI /CLEVA

January 31, 1970 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER very nearly complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera Quiz, 2nd intermission analysis of act 3 (missing sign off from opera quiz) DOOLEY, RYSANEK, KONYA, MACURDY /BÖHM

February 7, 1970 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA* commentary before and after the opera BUMBRY, CORELLI, CASSEL, CASEI /BERNSTEIN Opera Quiz

February 7, 1970 PAGLIACCI* (commentary before and after the opera) TUCKER, STRATAS, GUARRERA, COSSA /CLEVA

February 14, 1970 DON CARLO commentary before and after each act, and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver visits Casa di Riposa; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz CORELLI, KABAIVANSKA, MERRILL, BUMBRY, TOZZI, MICHALSKI /ADLER

February 21, 1970 TURANDOT complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News; 2nd intermisison Opera Quiz NILSSON, DOMINGO, AMARA, GIAIOTTI /ADLER

February 28, 1970 DER ROSENKAVALIER commentary before and after each act, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz LUDWIG, RYSANEK, BERRY, RASKIN, KNOLL, LOVE, GEDDA /BÖHM

March 7, 1970 MADAMA BUTTERFLY commentary before act 1 and 3, and after each act ARROYO, ALEXANDER, BALDWIN, UPPMAN, FRANKE /MOLINARI-PRADELLI

March 14, 1970 LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Alberta Masiello analyses the opera; fragment of 2nd intermission Opera Quiz TEBALDI, KONYA, COLZANI /BEHR

March 21, 1970 LA TRAVIATA nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions, 1st intermission Opera News interview with Regina Resnik, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Rudolf Bing's 20 years at the Met pt. 1 PILOU, BERGONZI, MILNES /RICH

March 28, 1970 ARIADNE AUF NAXOS commentary before and after prologue and the opera, intermission feature with Lotte Lehmann and Maria Jeritza RYSANEK, GRIST, LEAR, KING, DOOLEY /BÖHM

April 4, 1970 NORMA* SUTHERLAND, HORNE, BERGONZI, SIEPI /BONYNGE commentary after each act; 1st intermission Richard Bonynge discusses Norma

April 11, 1970 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO in LOC (commentary before and after each act; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Rudolph Bing's 20 years at the Met pt. 3) SIEPI, STRATAS, ZYLIS-GARA, KRAUSE, ELIAS, CASEI, PLISHKA /KRIPS

April 18, 1970 ROMEO ET JULIETTE* commentary before and after each act except before act 1; 1st intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable with Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne and Martina Arroyo PILOU, CORELLI, DIAZ, BALDWIN, REARDON /LOMBARD

December 5, 1970 DON PASQUALE* CORENA, GRIST, KRAUS, KRAUSE /FRANCI commentary before and after each act; pre-curtain, Bing greets the radio audience; 1st intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable with Sutherland, Horne and Arroyo [repeat from 18 April 1970] 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 12, 1970 TOSCA* ROSS, BERGONZI, COLZANI /MOLINARI-PRADELLI commentary before and after each act except before act 2; 1st intermission Edward Downes analyses Tosca
December 19, 1970 NORMA* SUTHERLAND, HORNE, FR. TAGLIAVINI, PLISHKA /BONYNGE commentary before act 1 and after each act, 1st intermission Opera News Ivan Davis on Bellini; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Antonio Scotti
December 26, 1970 AIDA* ARROYO, MCCRACKEN, BUMBRY, COLZANI, FLAGELLO /CLEVA commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky on Bands in Opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz: Singers Roundtable with Ross, Raskin, Domingo and Walker; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Milton Cross
January 2, 1971 FIDELIO RYSANEK, VICKERS, TOZZI, BERRY, BLEGEN, DICKIE /BOHM complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News Edward Downes analyses Fidelio (repeat from broadcast of January 22, 1966)
January 9, 1971 ORFEO* ED EURIDICE BUMBRY, TUCCI, PETERS /BONYNGE commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News David Stivender analyses the opera
January 16, 1971 DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN* RYSANEK, NAGY, LUDWIG, BERRY, DALIS /BÖHM commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News, Bois Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 23, 1971 LA PERICHOLE STRATAS, RITCHARD, UPPMAN, VON STADE /ALLERS commentary before acts 1 & 3 and after each act: 1st intermission Opera News Denna Clark interviews Cyril Ritchard; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz Singers' Roundtable with Martina Arroyo, Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill
January 30, 1971 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* DOMINGO, ARROYO, MERRILL, PETERS, DUNN /CLEVA commentary before and after each act, and between some scenes, 1st intermission Opera News - interview with Jascha Silberstein, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 6, 1971 CARMEN BALDANI, DOMINGO, AMARA, MERRILL /MOREL commentary before and after each act; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (partial); 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Robert Merrill
February 13, 1971 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA COSSOTTO, DI GIUSEPPE, MEREDITH, CASEI /CLEVA commentary before and after the opera; intermission Opera Quiz
February 13, 1971 PAGLIACCI TUCKER, STRATAS, MACNEIL, COSSA /CLEVA commentary after the opera
February 20, 1971 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA MILNES, HORNE, DI GIUSEPPI, CORENA, TOZZI, KRAFT /SCHIPPERS commentary before act 1 and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable with Martina Arroyo, Birgit Nilsson, Ezio Flagello and James McCracken
February 27, 1971 ELEKTRA* NILSSON, RYSANEK, MADEIRA, STEWART, NAGY /BÖHM commentary before and after the opera; pre-curtain feature Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera
March 6, 1971 LA BOHEME KIRSTEN, KONYA, BOKY, SERENI, HINES, GOODLOE /CLEVA commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver on Puccini's early compositions; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Dorothy Kirsten
March 13, 1971 IL TROVATORE* TUCKER, ARROYO, VERRETT, SERENI, MICHALSKI /MEHTA commentary before and after each act and between scenes: 1st intermission Ivan Davies plays operatic paraphrases; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Mrs August Belmont.
March 20, 1971 DON GIOVANNI SIEPI, MOSER, ZYLIS-GARA, CORENA, PILOU, GEDDA, UPPMAN, PLISHKA /KRIPS commentary before and after each act
March 27, 1971 WERTHER CORELLI, ELIAS, REARDON, ROBINSON /LOMBARD commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission Opera News Jennie Tourel and David Stivender discuss Werther, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 3, 1971 PARSIFAL KONYA, DALIS, STEWART, SIEPI, MEREDITH /LUDWIG commentary before and after each act
April 10, 1971 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN* GEDDA, BACQUIER, BOKY, CRESPIN, AMARA, VON STADE, VELIS /BAUDO commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: Singers' Roundtable Cyril Ritchard talks with James McCracken, Sherrill Milnes and Justino Diaz; 2nd intermission Record Collectors Roundtable Quiz
April 17, 1971 MADAMA BUTTERFLY LORENGAR, SHIRLEY, MILLER, GUARRERA, SCHMORR /FRANCI commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera Quiz; 2nd intermission Rudolf Bing talks about the 1971-72 season (very end is missing)
December 11, 1971 LUISA MILLER* MALIPONTE, ALEXANDER, MACNEIL, GIAIOTTI, PLISHKA, DUNN /LEVINE commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 18, 1971 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE* NILSSON, THOMAS, DALIS, DOOLEY, TOZZI /LEINSDORF commentary before and after each act
December 25, 1971 HANSEL AND GRETEL ELIAS, STRATAS, VELIS, CHOOKASIAN, WALKER /ALLERS commentary after act 2; Intermission Opera News celebrates 40th anniversary of Met broadcasts (re-broadcast from 29 December 1956)
January 1, 1972 CARMEN BALDANI, TUCKER, AMARA, MERRILL /OTVOS commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable with Nilsson, Thomas, Walker and Flagello; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (10 mins only); 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Marjorie Lawrence (re-broadcast from 30 December 1967)
January 8, 1972 SAMSON ET DALILA MCCRACKEN, BUMBRY, BACQUIER, PLISHKA, MACURDY /BAUDO commentary before and after each opera, 1st intermission Biographies in Music: The Seductress
January 15, 1972 DIE MEISTERSINGER* ADAM, LORENGAR, KING, KUSCHE, LOVE, DRISCOLL, FLAGELLO /SCHIPPERS nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions (missing the synopsis of act 3); 1st intermission Paul Hume analyses the use of the chorus in Wagner operas; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 22, 1972 COSI FAN TUTTE* ZYLIS-GARA, BOTTAZZO, ELIAS, UPPMAN, STRATAS, BERRY /PRITCHARD commentary before and after both acts; intermission Opera Quiz
January 29, 1972 PELLEAS ET MELISANDE BLEGEN, MCDANIEL, STEWART, TOZZI, CHOOKASIAN /DAVIS commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera
February 5, 1972 RIGOLETTO MERRILL, ROBINSON, TUCKER, DIAZ, GRILLO /VELTRI commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Singers' Roundtable with Charles Anthony, Paul Frank and Andrea Velis; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Instruments of the Orchestra
February 12, 1972 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* PRICE, BERGONZI, PASKALIS, SIEPI, CASEI, CORENA /VELTRI commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses musical keys
February 19, 1972 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* BERGONZI, SCOTTO, SERENI, CORENA /FRANCI commentary after each act; intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable with Martina Arroyo, John Alexander, Donald Gramm, and Sherill Milnes
February 26, 1972 FAUST* DOMINGO, ZYLIS-GARA, TOZZI, SERENI, VON STADE /RICH commentary before and after each act except before act 2
March 4, 1972 WERTHER* CORELLI, ELIAS, BOKY, COSSA /BEHR
March 11, 1972 FIDELIO SILJA, BRILIOTH, DOOLEY, BLEGEN, MACURDY, GOEKE /WALLAT commentary before and after each act, intermission Singers' Roundtable with Regine Crespin, Marilyn Horne, James McCracken, Geraint Evans
March 18, 1972 SALOME* RYSANEK, STOLZE, DALIS, STEWART, MACWHERTER /BÖHM complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera
March 25, 1972 LA FILLE DU REGIMENT* SUTHERLAND, DI GIUSEPPE, SINCLAIR, CORENA /BONYNGE commentary before and after each act, intermission Opera News interview with Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge
April 1, 1972 FALSTAFF GOBBI, TEBALDI, PASKALIS, PETERS, RESNIK, GRILLO, ALVA /DOHNANYI commentary before and after each act and between scenes; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Falstaff; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 8, 1972 OTELLO* MCCRACKEN, ZYLIS-GARA, MILNES, LOVE, DI GIUSEPPE /BOHM commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Edward Downes interviews Franco Zeffirelli; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 15, 1972 DER FREISCHUTZ* LORENGAR, KONYA, MATHIS, FELDHOFF, MACWHERTER, MACURDY /LUDWIG commentary before and after each act, 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 22, 1972 DON CARLO CORELLI, CABALLE, MILNES, SIEPI, BUMBRY, MACURDY /MOLINARI-PRADELLI commentary before and after each act; 1st & 2nd intermission Bing Retrospective
April 22, 1972 BING GALA* (TV) SUTHERLAND, PAVAROTTI, CABALLE, DOMINGO, TUCKER, MERRILL, MOFFO, PRICE, MCCRACKEN, ZYLIS-GARA, CORELLI, NILSSON /BONYNGE, LEVINE, MOLINARI-PRADELLI, ADLER, BÖHM (ONE HOUR HIGHLIGHTS TELECAST, CBS: 4/30/72)
December 9, 1972 OTELLO* VICKERS, ZYLIS-GARA, QUILICO, GoeKE, KRAFT /LEVINE commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News interview with Mrs August Belmont, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Met Opera backstage
December 16, 1972 DIE WALKÜRE NILSSON, JONES, VICKERS, STEWART, BALDANI, MACURDY /LEINSDORF nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions [missing a promo for the Guild and the final sign off]; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Die Walküre, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 23, 1972 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE BURROWS, MALIPONTE, REARDON, MOSER, SOTIN, DI FRANCO, FRANKE /MAAG commentary before and after both acts, intermission Opera News, Singers' roundtable with Martina Arroyo, Marilyn Horne and Joan Sutherland
December 30, 1972 FAUST* GEDDA, BOKY, MACURDY, MANUGUERRA, FORST /BENZI commentary before act 1, after each act and between some scenes; 1st intermission Opera News - Metropolitan Opera Madrigal Singers
January 6, 1973 LA FILLE DU REGIMENT* SUTHERLAND, PAVAROTTI, RESNIK, CORENA /BONYNGE commentary before and after each act, intermission Opera News Singers' roundtable with Zinka Milanov, Robert Merrill and Richard Tucker.
January 13, 1973 LA TRAVIATA CRUZ-ROMO, DI GIUSEPPE, MERRILL /MOLINARI-PRADELLI commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Victor Borge & Jascha Silberstein pt 1, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Opera News Victor Borge & Jascha Silberstein pt 2
January 20, 1973 LA BOHEME LORENGAR, TUCKER, BOKY, WALKER, GOODLOE, PLISHKA /H. LEWIS commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Boheme, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Boris Goldovsky part 1
January 27, 1973 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA TUCKER, CRUZ-ROMO, MILNES, ROBINSON, DALIS /ADLER commentary before and after each act except after act 2; 1st intermission Musicians Roundtable
February 3, 1973 MACBETH* MILNES, ARROYO, FR. TAGLIAVINI, RAIMONDI /MOLINARI-PRADELLI commentary before and after the opera; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Macbeth; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 10, 1973 RIGOLETTO* WIXELL, GRIST, PAVAROTTI, GRILLO, MACURDY /LEVINE nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions [missing the synopsis for Act 4]; 1st intermission Singers' Roundtable; 2nd intermission Record Collectors Roundtable; 3rd intermission Biographies in Music Boris Goldovsky part 2 (commentary by Lloyd Moss due to the death of Milton Cross's wife)
February 17, 1973 NORMA* CABALLE, COSSOTTO, COSSUTTA, TOZZI /CILLARIO nearly complete commentary (some parts missing); 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky interviews Ponselle (re-broadcast from 1954); 2nd intermission Mini Met (commentary by Lloyd Moss due to the death of Milton Cross's wife)
February 24, 1973 AIDA ARROYO, TUCKER, BUMBRY, MACNEIL, TOZZI /MOLINARI-PRADELLI commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Singers' Roundtable with Lewis, Milnes and Gramm; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Lotte Lehmann 85th birthday tribute
March 3, 1973 DON GIOVANNI* SIEPI, MOSER, LORENGAR, FLAGELLO, ELIAS, SHIRLEY, UPPMAN, MACURDY /MAAG commentary before and after each act, intermission, Biographies in Music Enrico Caruso
March 10, 1973 CARMEN* HORNE, MCCRACKEN, AMARA, KRAUSE /H. LEWIS commentary before acts 1, 2 and 4, after acts 2 and 4; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Carmen
March 17, 1973 IL TROVATORE* DOMINGO, CABALLE, COSSOTTO, MERRILL, VINCO /CILLARIO commentary before and after each act and between scenes, 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver on Trovatore: The Ballad Opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Singers' roundtable with Hume, Rysanek and Flagello.
March 24, 1973 PETER GRIMES* VICKERS, AMARA, GRAMM, KRAFT, CHOOKASIAN /EHRLING commentary before and after each act 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Peter Grimes
March 31, 1973 ROMEO ET JULIETTE* CORELLI, BOKY, MACURDY, FORST, COSSA /RICH complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Cyril Ritchard interviews Alice Tully; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 7, 1973 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA* PREY, HORNE, DI GIUSEPPE, CORENA, TOZZI, KRAFT /LEVINE nearly complete (missing synopsis of act 1) with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Cyril Ritchard interviews Alberta Massiello; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 14, 1973 DER ROSENKAVALIER MINTON, RYSANEK, BERRY, BLEGEN, MEREDITH, BALDWIN, ALEXANDER /STRASFOGEL commentary before and after each act 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Rosenkavalier; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 21, 1973 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* SCOTTO, ALEXANDER, SERENI, PLISHKA /MOLINARI-PRADELLI commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News - the new administration of the Met
December 8, 1973 L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI (1st STEREO BROADCAST) HORNE, ALVA, UPPMAN, CORENA, WEIDINGER /H. LEWIS commentary before and after each act (all broadcasts henceforth in stereo unless stated) intermission Madrigal Singers
December 15, 1973 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE* ALVA, MOFFO, GRAMM, SHANE, HINES, DI FRANCO, FRANKE /MAAG intermission Singers' Roundtable with Shirley Verrett, Fernando Corena, Maralin Niska and Placido Domingo
December 22, 1973 RIGOLETTO MANUGUERRA, BOKY, DI GIUSEPPE, FLAGELLO, GRILLO /BAUDO commentary before and after each act
December 29, 1973 MANON LESCAUT CRUZ-ROMO, MONTANE, SERENI, CORENA /SEGERSTAM commentary before and after each act
January 5, 1974 SALOME* BUMBRY, ULFUNG, RESNIK, SHADUR, LEWIS /LEVINE commentary before and after the opera: pre-curtain feature, Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera [repeat from 18 March 1972]
January 12, 1974 CARMEN* HORNE, MCCRACKEN, AMARA, REARDON /H. LEWIS nearly complete commentary (missing story of act 2, and very end), all 3 intermissions advertising the release of the 1940 Figaro broadcast by the Met (3rd intermission fragment only)
January 19, 1974 SIMON BOCCANEGRA WIXELL, MALIPONTE, TUCKER, TOZZI, SHADUR /EHRLING complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Alberta Masielo analyses Simon Boccanegra; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 26, 1974 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE BARLOW, VICKERS, DUNN, DOOLEY, MACURDY /LEINSDORF commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Tristan
February 2, 1974 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN THEYARD, SUTHERLAND, STEWART, TOURANGEAU, VELIS /BONYNGE nearly complete (missing transitions between intermissions and acts 2 and 3) with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air Sutherland and Bonynge talk to McEwan; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 9, 1974 OTELLO* VICKERS, TE KANAWA, STEWART, LEWIS, KRAFT /LEVINE commentary before and after each act; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (3 mins only); 3rd intermission promoting the LP release of the 1940 Figaro
February 16, 1974 LA BOHEME CABALLE, CORELLI, NISKA, COSSA, HOLLOWAY, MACURDY /SEGERSTAM commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 3rd intermission Andrea Velis on 100 voices
February 23, 1974 DER ROSENKAVALIER* FASSBÄNDER, LEAR, JUNGWIRTH, MATHIS, DOOLEY, MILLER, GOEKE /BÖHM commentary before and after each act except before act 2
March 2, 1974 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA* WALKER, ELIAS, GÖKE, CORENA, TOZZI, LOVE /PRITCHARD nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable; 2nd intermission interview with Nancy Hanks chair of the NEA
March 9, 1974 I VESPRI SICILIANI* CABALLE, GEDDA, MILNES, DIAZ /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News James Levine discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 16, 1974 LES TROYENS VICKERS, LUDWIG, VERRETT, QUILICO, DUNN, MACURDY, RIEGEL /KUBELIK nearly complete commentary (missing the synopses of Acts 2 and 3); 1st & 2nd intermissions Robert Lawrence, Patrick Smith and David Stivender analyse the opera
March 23, 1974 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG HUNTER, BRILIOTH, DOOLEY, RUNDGREN, RANKIN, RINTZLER, DUNN /KUBELIK commentary before and after each, except before act 3; 1st intermission John Culshaw analyses Götterdämmerung; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 30, 1974 MADAMA BUTTERFLY KIRSTEN, KONYA, CASEI, CHRISTOPHER, SCHMORR /BAUDO nearly complete commentary (missing the story of acts 1 & 2 plus the very end) 1st Intermission Opera News interview with Mrs August Belmont; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, post curtain feature on audition winners
April 6, 1974 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* PAVAROTTI, BLEGEN, REARDON, FLAGELLO /RUDOLF complete with all commentary and intermission; Opera News Musical Chairs
April 13, 1974 DON GIOVANNI* MILNES, PRICE, ZYLIS-GARA, BERRY, STRATAS, BURROWS, MICHALSKI, MORRIS /LEVINE commentary before and after each act; intermission Singers' Roundtable with Judith Blegen, Evelyn Lear, and Donald Gramm
April 20, 1974 PARSIFAL* THOMAS, MARTIN, STEWART, MACURDY, MEREDITH /STEINBERG nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions (missing portion of the intro to act 2); 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Parsifal, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 27, 1974 TURANDOT ROSS, CORELLI, MOSER, MACURDY /OTVOS tour performance from Boston, commentary before and after each act
December 7, 1974 ROMEO ET JULIETTE* CORELLI, BLEGEN, GILL, MUNZER, CARLSON /H. LEWIS complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Welcome to the radio audience; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 14, 1974 DEATH IN VENICE* PEARS, SHIRLEY-QUIRK, VELIS /BEDFORD nearly complete commentary (missing opening part of Act 1 synopsis), with pre-curtain feature and intermission, Edward Downes talks to Peter Pears and Stuart Bedford about the opera (pts 1 & 2)
December 21, 1974 JENUFA* KUBIAK, VICKERS, VARNAY, LEWIS, KRAFT /NELSON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Jenufa, 2nd intermission Madrigal Singers
December 28, 1974 TURANDOT BJONER, CORELLI, MALIPONTE, MORRIS /EREDE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver on Puccini's Music Box (repeat), 2nd intermission Opera Quiz. This was Milton Cross's last broadcast
January 4, 1975 L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI HORNE, DI GIUSEPPE, UPPMAN, CORENA, WEIDINGER /H. LEWIS complete with all commentary and intermission Biographies in Music Milton Cross (repeat of Dec 26, 1970 intermission). This was Peter Allen's first broadcast
January 11, 1975 MADAMA BUTTERFLY AMARA, LOVE, MORELL, UPPMAN, CASTEL /WOITACH complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Biographies in Music Richard Tucker; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 18, 1975 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA* BUMBRY, THEYARD, COLZANI, GRILLO /NELSON commentary before and after the opera ; part of intermission Opera Quiz
January 18, 1975 PAGLIACCI* MCCRACKEN, MOFFO, MILNES, CARLSON /NELSON commentary before and after the opera
January 25, 1975 BORIS GODUNOV TALVELA, NAGY, PLISHKA, THEYARD, DUNN, DOOLEY, GRAMM /SCHIPPERS complete with all commentary and intermissions;1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the Opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 1, 1975 DON GIOVANNI MORRIS, MOSER, TE KANAWA, FLAGELLO, PETERS, BURROWS, MICHALSKI, GILL /RUDOLF complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News: Singers' Roundtable with Dunn, MacNeil, Theyard
February 8, 1975 TOSCA ZYLIS-GARA, BERGONZI, BACQUIER /EREDE complete with all commentary and intermissions;1st intermission Opera News William Weaver Five Generations of Puccini; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 15, 1975 DAS RHEINGOLD* MCINTYRE, DUNN, RINTZLER, PETERSON, CHOOKASIAN, RUNDGREN, MACURDY /EHRLING complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature Opera News: John Culshaw discusses the opera
February 22, 1975 BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE WARD, VERRETT /EHRLING ; GIANNI SCHICCHI FLAGELLO, BLEGEN, GIBBS, NORDEN, BALDWIN, DALIS /EHRLING complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature, Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera, and intermission Opera Quiz
March 1, 1975 DIE WALKÜRE* NILSSON, MARTIN, VICKERS, MCINTYRE, DUNN, RUNDGREN /EHRLING complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News: John Culshaw discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 8, 1975 MANON LESCAUT* KIRSTEN, ALEXANDER, WALKER, MICHALSKI /ADLER complete with all commentary and intermissions, 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver on Puccini's Farewell to Youth pt 1, 2nd intermission Opera quiz; 3rd intermission Opera News William Weaver on Puccini's Farewell to Youth pt 2
March 15, 1975 SIEGFRIED* THOMAS, NILSSON, ULFUNG, MCINTYRE, CHOOKASIAN, RINTZLER /EHRLING nearly complete with all commentary (missing parts of the synopses of acts 1 & 2) and 1st intermission Opera News: John Culshaw discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Roundtable with Paul Hune & Andrew Porter
March 22, 1975 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO AMARA, VICKERS, MACNEIL, GIAIOTTI, BACQUIER, GRILLO /LEVINE commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera
March 29, 1975 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG* NILSSON, THOMAS, RUNDGREN, DOOLEY, RANKIN, REYNOLDS, RINTZLER /EHRLING complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News: John Culshaw discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Musical Chairs
April 5, 1975 FALSTAFF* MACNEIL, LEAR, STEWART, BARBIERI, VALENTE, GRILLO, AHLSTEDT /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News: Alberta Masiello discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Record Collectors Roundtable
April 12, 1975 I VESPRI SICILIANI* NISKA, LEWIS, MILNES, PLISHKA /LEVINE commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News interview with Beverley Sills
April 19, 1975 L'ASSEDIO DI CORINTO* SILLS, DIAZ, VERRETT, THEYARD /SCHIPPERS very nearly complete commentary (missing part of intro to act 3) with intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Analysis of the opera; 2nd intermission farewell to the radio audience
December 6, 1975 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* MORELL, ROSS, MERRILL, PETERS, FORRESTER /H. LEWIS complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Welcome to the Radio Audience; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 13, 1975 CARMEN* CRESPIN, LEWIS, RICCIARELLI, VAN DAM /H. LEWIS complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Carmen and Bizet; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Piano Quiz
December 20, 1975 COSI FAN TUTTE* CARSON, DI GIUSEPPE, TOURANGEAU, CARLSON, BOKY, CORENA /KORD complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable
December 27, 1975 HANSEL UND GRETEL ELIAS, WEIDINGER, KRAFT, VELIS, WALKER /ALLERS complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News on the first ever Met broadcast in 1931 (repeat from 29 December 1956)
January 3, 1976 IL TRITTICO: IL TABARRO KUBIAK, THEYARD, MACNEIL, CHOOKASIAN /EHRLING; SUOR ANGELICA CRUZ-ROMO, CHOOKASIAN, NORDEN /EHRLING; GIANNI SCHICCHI FLAGELLO, MANDAC, GIBBS, NORDEN, BALDWIN, CHOOKASIAN /EHRLING complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Sour Angelica ; and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 10, 1976 ELEKTRA* SCHROEDER-FEINEN, KNIE, VARNAY, NAGY, DOOLEY /HOLLREISER complete with all commentary and pre curtain feature, John Culshaw Reflections on Elektra and Strauss
January 17, 1976 L'ASSEDIO DI CORINTO* SILLS, DIAZ, VERRETT, DI GIUSEPPE /WOITACH nearly complete with all commentary (missing part of synopsis of Act 3) and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Godovsky discusses the opera; and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 24, 1976 BORIS GODUNOV TALVELA, NAGY, GILL, LEWIS, DUNN, MEREDITH, MICHALSKI /KORD commentary after each act; 1st intermission Singers' Roundtable with George Cehanovsky and Alexander Kipnis
January 31, 1976 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA* STILWELL, VON STADE, DAVIES, CORENA, MORRIS, MUNZER /NELSON complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Philip Gosset discusses Rossini Myths and Realities; and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 7, 1976 FIDELIO* JONES, THOMAS, MACURDY, MCINTYRE, BLEGEN, RIEGEL /MAUCERI complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News Musical Chairs
February 14, 1976 LA TRAVIATA SHANE, BURROWS, WIXELL /CALDWELL complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Sarah Caldwell analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Andrew Porter Verdi: The Legends and the Facts
February 21, 1976 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO DEAN, VALENTE, TE KANAWA, STEWART, ELIAS, KRAFT, FOLDI /BEDFORD complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Alberta Masillo leads a piano quiz
February 28, 1976 NORMA* CABALLE, VERRETT, ALEXANDER, MICHALSKI /MASINI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable with Lucina Amara, Donald Gramm and Robert Merrill and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 6, 1976 AIDA PRICE, DOMINGO, HORNE, MACNEIL, GIAIOTTI /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Aida; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission John Culshaw on LP release of Tristan from 1941
March 13, 1976 I PURITANI* SUTHERLAND, PAVAROTTI, MILNES, MORRIS /BONYNGE complete with all commentary and intermissions 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver interviews Bonynge and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 20, 1976 ARIADNE AUF NAXOS CABALLE, WELTING, TROYANOS, REMEDIOS, DOOLEY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; pre-curtain feature Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; intermission Singers' Roundtable with Zinka Milanov, Marilyn Horne, and Frank Guarrera
March 27, 1976 DER ROSENKAVALIER TROYANOS, ZYLIS-GARA, EDELMANN, BLEGEN, DOOLEY, LOVE, PAVAROTTI /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Strauss and Der Rosenkavalier; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 3, 1976 MADAMA BUTTERFLY* ZYLIS-GARA, CASEI, ALEXANDER, UPPMAN, CASTEL /WOITACH complete with all commentary and intermissions 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver on Puccini's Requiem for Verdi and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 10, 1976 LA GIOCONDA ARROYO, RAITZIN, RANKIN, MANUGUERRA, MORRIS, CHOOKASIAN /PATANE nearly complete (missing very end commentary) with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Andrew Porter discusses Singers High, Low and Inbetween; and 2nd intermission Singers' Roundtable; 3rd intermission Met Madrigal Singers
April 17, 1976 DIE MEISTERSINGER* STEWART, SAUNDERS, COX, BALDWIN, RIEGEL, LEIB, MACURDY, UPPMAN /EHRLING complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Wagner and Die Meistersinger, 2nd intermission Farewell Message
December 4, 1976 LOHENGRIN* KOLLO, LORENGAR, DUNN, MCINTYRE, GIAIOTTI /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Wagner and Lohengrin, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 11, 1976 ESCLARMONDE* SUTHERLAND, ARAGALL, TOURANGEAU, GRANT, QUILICO, MACURDY /BONYNGE commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Bonynge on Esclarmonde; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Metropolitan Madrigal Singers
December 18, 1976 DIE MEISTERSINGER RIDDERBUSCH, SHADE, BRENNEIS, WELLER, LOVE, RIEGEL, MACURDY /EHRLING complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Meistersinger, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

December 25, 1976 AIDA CRUZ-ROMO, MCCRACKEN, TROYANOS, QUILICO, HINES /KORD complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Andrew Porter on Verdi's Egyptian Sound, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission William Weaver on Verdi at home
January 1, 1977 TOSCA* BUMBRY, GIACOMINI, MILNES /SANTI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Tosca; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 8, 1977 FAUST BURROWS, J. MEIER, GIAIOTTI, CARLSON, FORST /PRETRE complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky on composer's fingerprints; and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 15, 1977 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* SILLS, GEDDA, EDWARDS, FLAGELLO /WOITACH complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Ivan Davis on musical madness; and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 22, 1977 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE* BURROWS, VALENTE, UPPMAN, SHANE, PLISHKA, NORDEN, CASTEL /CONLON complete all commentary and intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable with Sutherland, Horne and Arroyo (repeated from 1970 broadcast)
January 29, 1977 LE PROPHETE* MCCRACKEN, SCOTTO, HORNE, HINES, LITTLE, MEREDITH /H. LEWIS complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky on Prophete and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 5, 1977 DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES EWING, CRESPIN, VERRETT, DUNN, NORDEN, KRAFT /PLASSON complete with all commentary, pre-curtain feature, Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera, and intermission Opera Quiz
February 12, 1977 SALOME* RYSANEK, VARNAY, ULFUNG, BAILEY, RIEGEL /LEINSDORF complete with all commentary and pre-curtain talk by John Culshaw Reflections on Strauss' Salome
February 19, 1977 DIE WALKÜRE HUNTER, MARTIN, KING, BAILEY, DUNN, M. SCHENK /LEINSDORF complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Wagner's Walküre, 2nd intermission Singers' Roundtable with Rysanek, Flagello, and McCracken
February 26, 1977 IL TABARRO BEHRENS, THEYARD, MACNEIL, KRAFT /LEVINE; SUOR ANGELICA ZYLIS-GARA, BARBIERI, NORDEN /LEVINE; GIANNI SCHICCHI MACNEIL, LIGI, SHICOFF, NORDEN, LOVE, BARBIERI /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Il Trittico; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 5, 1977 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO MORRIS, BLEGEN, HARPER, CARLSON, EWING, CAPECCHI, LOVE /BEDFORD complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky on setting words to music; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Retrospective on Met broadcasts and promotion of LP release of Otello 1940 & intermissions LP
March 12, 1977 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* PRICE, DOMINGO, MACNEIL, TALVELA, CAPECCHI, ELIAS /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions, 1st intermission Opera News Ponselle interview; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 15, 1977 LA BOHEME (TV) SCOTTO, PAVAROTTI, NISKA, WIXELL, MONK, PLISHKA /LEVINE released on DVD - audio of TV broadcast includes all commentary and intermissions.
March 19, 1977 LA BOHEME* SCOTTO, PAVAROTTI, NISKA, WIXELL, MONK, PLISHKA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions, 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on La Boheme; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission John Culshaw on the release of the 1940 Otello on LP
March 26, 1977 ANDREA CHENIER* DOMINGO, ARROYO, MACNEIL, KRAFT /LEVINE commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Andrea Chenier
April 2, 1977 LULU* FARLEY, GRAMM, TROYANOS, LEWIS, FOLDI, CARLSON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions: pre-curtain feature George Perle analyses Lulu, intermission Opera Quiz
April 9, 1977 IL TROVATORE* MCCRACKEN, SCOTTO, VERRETT, QUILICO, SMITH /VELTRI commentary before and after each act
April 16, 1977 SAMSON ET DALILA* COSSOTTO, CHAUVET, WALKER, DIAZ, SMITH /EHRLING complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Samson; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
November 7, 1977 RIGOLETTO (TV) MACNEIL, COTRUBAS, DOMINGO, DIAZ, JONES /LEVINE audio of TV broadcast includes all commentary and intermissions
December 3, 1977 RIGOLETTO* MACNEIL, COTRUBAS, SHICOFF, DIAZ, JONES /LEVINE complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver discusses rare Verdi; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 10, 1977 PETER GRIMES* VICKERS, HARPER, GRAMM, KRAFT, CHOOKASIAN /PRITCHARD complete with all commentary and intermissions 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Peter Grimes; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 17, 1977 MADAMA BUTTERFLY* SCOTTO, ARAGALL, LOVE, EDWARDS, ATHERTON /PATANE complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Madama Butterfly; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 24, 1977 LA BOHEME* SCOTTO, MORELL, MITCHELL, WIXELL, MONK, PLISHKA /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Andrew Porter on Christmas in Opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Madrigal Singers
December 31, 1977 LA TRAVIATA CHIARA, ALEXANDER, QUILICO /WOITACH complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Alberto Masiello on 'Oompah-Pah', 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd Intermission Nilsson and Sutherland on singing (repeat from 26 Jan 1963)
January 7, 1978 DER ROSENKAVALIER TROYANOS, JONES, RINTZLER, GRIST, HAMMOND-STROUD, LOVE, SHICOFF /HAGER complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Rosenkavalier , 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 14, 1978 IL TROVATORE MERIGHI, ARROYO, WIXELL, CORTEZ, MORRIS /PATANE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Alberta Masiello analyses Trovatore; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission John Culshaw talks about the Met issue of the 1939 Rosenkavalier broadcast
January 21, 1978 TANNHÄUSER* MCCRACKEN, KUBIAK, BUMBRY, WEIKL, MACURDY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence analyses Tannhäuser; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 28, 1978 THAÏS* SILLS, MILNES, GIBBS, MORRIS, NORDEN /PRITCHARD complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Thaïs; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 4, 1978 OTELLO* VICKERS, RICCIARELLI, MACNEIL, KRAFT, LITTLE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Otello; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission interview with Milanov
February 11, 1978 ADRIANA LECOUVREUR* CABALLE, CARRERAS, COSSOTTO, QUILICO /LOPEZ-COBOS complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver discusses Cilea, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Ivan Davis discusses Liszt
February 18, 1978 EUGENE ONEGIN MILNES, ZYLIS-GARA, GEDDA, JONES, PLISHKA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Onegin, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 25, 1978 BORIS GODUNOV TALVELA, NAGY, PLISHKA, OCHMAN, DUNN, MEREDITH, CORENA /KORD complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Boris, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 4, 1978 PELLEAS ET MELISANDE STRATAS, GIBBS, BACQUIER, HINES, DUNN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Pelleas
March 11, 1978 LA FAVORITA* VERRETT, PAVAROTTI, MILNES, GIAIOTTI, A.J. SMITH /LOPEZ-COBOS complete with all commentary and 1st intermissions Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Favorita; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 16, 1978 DON GIOVANNI (TV) MORRIS, SUTHERLAND, VARADY, BACQUIER, TOURANGEAU, BRECKNOCK, MONK, MACURDY /BONYNGE audio of TV broadcast includes all commentary and intermissions
March 18, 1978 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* PAVAROTTI, BLEGEN, SERENI, CORENA /CALDWELL complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News Ivan Davies discusses Bel Canto
March 25, 1978 DON GIOVANNI* MORRIS, SUTHERLAND, VARADY, BACQUIER, TOURANGEAU, BRECKNOCK, MONK, MACURDY /BONYNGE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News Singers' Roundtable with John Alexadner, James McCracken and Sherrill Milnes
April 1, 1978 DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN* RYSANEK, KING, SCHROEDER-FEINEN, BERRY, DUNN /BÖHM complete with all commentary and 1st intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence analyses Frau, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 5, 1978 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (TV) TROYANOS, DOMINGO, SHINALL, JONES /LEVINE; PAGLIACCI (TV) DOMINGO, STRATAS, MILNES, MONK /LEVINE audio of TV broadcast includes all commentary and intermissions
April 8, 1978 TOSCA* KUBIAK, DOMINGO, QUILICO /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermissions, Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Tosca, Opera Quiz
April 15, 1978 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA TROYANOS, SOLOVIANENKO, SHINALL, JONES /LEVINE; PAGLIACCI GIACOMINI, STRATAS, MILNES, MONK /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News, preview of 1978-9 season
September 25, 1978 OTELLO (TV) audio of TV broadcast complete with all commentary and intermissions VICKERS, SCOTTO, MACNEIL, GIBBS, KRAFT /LEVINE
November 21, 1978 THE BARTERED BRIDE (TV) STRATAS, GEDDA, VICKERS, TALVELA, HAMMOND-STROUD /LEVINE audio of TV broadcast includes all commentary and intermissions
December 2, 1978 THE BARTERED BRIDE* STRATAS, GEDDA, VICKERS, TALVELA, HAMMOND-STROUD /LEVINE nearly complete (missing most of the opening commentary) with all commentary and both intermissions 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver on Smetana 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 9, 1978 CARMEN CRESPIN, CHAUVET, MITCHELL, DEVLIN /PATANE (mono) commentary before and after each act, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (part) 3rd intermission tribute to Mrs August Belmont on her 100th birthday
December 16, 1978 AIDA CRUZ-ROMO, LAMBERTI, BERINI, WIXELL, PLISHKA /PATANE complete with all commentary and intermissions, 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Aida; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Alberta Massielo with Dunn, Alexander & Flagello
December 19, 1978 TOSCA (TV) VERRETT, PAVAROTTI, MACNEIL /CONLON
December 23, 1978 HANSEL UND GRETEL ELIAS, MALONE, VELIS, KRAFT, MONK /SIMMONS commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Hansel and Gretel
December 30, 1978 ELEKTRA* MASTILOVIC, MARTON, CORNELL, BAILEY, ULFUNG /LEINSDORF complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature Met Opera Madrigal Singers
January 6, 1979 TOSCA VERRETT, PAVAROTTI, MACNEIL /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermissions, Opera News Singers' Roundtable; Opera Quiz
January 11, 1979 DON PASQUALE (TV) BACQUIER, SILLS, KRAUS, HAGEGARD /RESCIGNO (TELECAST, PBS: 5/17/80)
January 13, 1979 DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES EWING, CRESPIN, MITCHELL, DUNN, NORDEN, KRAFT /PLASSON complete with commentary and intermission Opera News, Byron Belt analyses the opera.
January 20, 1979 DON PASQUALE* BACQUIER, SILLS, KRAUS, HAGEGARD /RESCIGNO complete with commentary and intermissions, 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission John Culshaw talks about the Met LP of Fidelio 1941
January 20, 1979 LUISA MILLER (TV) SCOTTO, DOMINGO, MILNES, GIAIOTTI, MORRIS, KRAFT /LEVINE audio of TV broadcast includes all commentary and intermissions
January 27, 1979 LUISA MILLER* SCOTTO, DOMINGO, MILNES, GIAIOTTI, MORRIS, KRAFT /LEVINE nearly complete with commentary and intermissions, Opera News Boris Goldovsky on Luisa Miller; Opera Quiz [missing very opening commentary]
February 3, 1979 WERTHER* KRAUS, CRESPIN, BATTLE, CARLSON /BONYNGE complete with all commentary and intermissions, Opera News Robert Lawrence on Werther, Opera Quiz
February 10, 1979 MADAMA BUTTERFLY* ZYLIS-GARA, ALEXANDER, LOVE, MONK, VELIS /WOITACH complete with all commentary and intermissions, Opera News William Weaver on the Puccini Family; Opera Quiz
February 17, 1979 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE MCCOY, MITCHELL, BÖSCH, SANDOZ, STAMM, A.J. SMITH, ATHERTON /PRITCHARD complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 24, 1979 DON CARLO GIACOMINI, SCOTTO, MILNES, HORNE, GHIAUROV, MORRIS /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions, Opera News Andrew Porter discusses Don Carlo; Opera Quiz
March 3, 1979 RIGOLETTO* commentary before acts 1 and 3, after each act; 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver: An album for Piave MACNEIL, BLEGEN, ALEXANDER, JONES, HINES /STIVENDER
March 10, 1979 ARIADNE AUF NAXOS* J. MEIER, GRUBEROVA, TROYANOS, KOLLO, MONK /LEVINE commentary before and after the prologue and opera; intermission Opera Quiz
March 17, 1979 NORMA* VERRETT, OBRAZTSOVA, COSSUTTA, PLISHKA /MAAG complete with all commentary and intermissions, Opera News Rosa Ponselle talks to Boris Goldovsky; Opera Quiz
March 24, 1979 EUGENE ONEGIN* MAZUROK, KASRASHVILLI, SHICOFF, JONES, PLISHKA /JARVI complete with all commentary and intermissions, Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Onegin; Opera Quiz
March 31, 1979 BILLY BUDD* STILWELL, PEARS, MORRIS, GLOSSOP, WARD /LEPPARD complete with all commentary and intermissions, pre-curtain feature John Culshaw Reflections on Billy Budd; Opera Quiz
April 7, 1979 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER MCINTYRE, NEBLETT, LEWIS, PLISHKA /LEVINE commentary before and after the opera, pre curtain feature, John Culshaw Reflections on Der Fliegender Holländer
April 14, 1979 PARSIFAL* VICKERS, LUDWIG, TALVELA, WEIKL, SHINALL /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Parsifal; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

September 24, 1979 OTELLO (TV) DOMINGO, CRUZ-ROMO, MILNES, CIANNELLA, LOVE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission interviews with cast
November 27, 1979 MAHAGONNY (TV) STRATAS, CASSILLY, VARNAY, MACNEIL, ULFUNG, PLISHKA /LEVINE
December 8, 1979 EUGENE ONEGIN* MAZUROK, KABAIVANSKA, GEDDA, JONES, PLISHKA /TCHAKAROV complete with all commentary and intermissions Opera News celebrates Texaco's 40th anniversary; Opera Quiz
December 15, 1979 AIDA SAVOVA, LAMBERTI, BERINI, WIXELL, RONI /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermissions, Opera News with Boris Goldovsky; Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission John Culshaw talks about Met LP release of Carmen April 1937
December 22, 1979 MAHAGONNY STRATAS, CASSILY, VARNAY, MACNEIL, ULFUNG, PLISHKA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; pre-curtain feature, Boris Goldovsky anaylses the opera; 1st intermission Singers' Roundtable with Horne, Alexander and Stilwell; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 29, 1979 HANSEL UND GRETEL MALFITANO, TROYANOS, FRANKE, KRAFT, MONK /SIMMONS near complete commentary (missing very end) with intermission Opera Quiz
January 5, 1980 LA GIOCONDA* SCOTTO, MAURO, NAVE, QUILICO, GIAIOTTI, TAILLON /PATANE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Andrew Porter discusses voices
January 12, 1980 DER ROSENKAVALIER BALTSA, TOMOWA-SINTOW, HAUGLAND, BLEGEN, GUTSTEIN, LOVE, MCCOY /LEINSDORF complete with all commentary and intermissions 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Rosenkavalier [repeat from March 27, 1976]; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 19, 1980 RIGOLETTO MILNES, ROBINSON, BINI, JONES, HINES /STIVENDER complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses Rigoletto; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 26, 1980 TOSCA CABALLE, GIACOMINI, MACNEIL /PATANE nearly complete commentary (missing part of intro to acts 1 and 3) and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Woitach analyses Tosca; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 2, 1980 FIDELIO BEHRENS, VICKERS, PLISHKA, MALFITANO, NENTWIG, ATHERTON /LEINSDORF complete with all commentary and Intermission Singers' Roundtable with Sherill Milnes and Birgit Nilsson
February 9, 1980 OTELLO CASSILLY/SOOTER, ZYLIS-GARA, MILNES, LITTLE, KRAFT /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Otello [slightly truncated repeat of Feb 4 1978]; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission William Weaver visits Casa di Riposa (repeat from Feb 14, 1970)
February 16, 1980 ELEKTRA* (& TV) NILSSON, RYSANEK, DUNN, MCINTYRE, NAGY /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 1/28/81})
February 16, 1980 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (TV) PAVAROTTI, RICCIARELLI, QUILICO, BERINI, BLEGEN /PATANE
February 21, 1980 DON CARLO (TV) MOLDOVEANU, SCOTTO, MILNES, TROYANOS, PLISHKA, HINES /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 4/12/80) audio of TV broadcast includes nearly all commentary (missing opening) and intermissions
February 23, 1980 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA BAGLIONI, LLOVERAS, MACNEIL, JONES /WOITACH; PAGLIACCI BERGONZI, MALFITANO, MACNEIL, MONK /WOITACH complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 1, 1980 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* PAVAROTTI, RICCIARELLI, NUCCI, PETERS, PAYNE /PATANE complete with all commentary and intermissions:1st intermission Opera News John Culshaw Reflections on Un Ballo in Maschera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 8, 1980 WOZZECK VAN DAM, SILJA, ULFUNG, CASSILLY, WELLER /LEVINE complete with all commentary (performed without intermission)
March 15, 1980 DON CARLO GIACOMINI, CRUZ-ROMO, MILNES, TROYANOS, PLISHKA, HINES /LEVINE commentary before and after each act
March 22, 1980 DON PASQUALE* TRIMARCHI, PETERS, RENDALL, DUESING /RESCIGNO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver hosts a discussion of Donizetti songs; 2nd intermission Singers' Roundtable
March 29, 1980 MANON LESCAUT* (& TV) SCOTTO, DOMINGO, ELVIRA, CAPECCHI /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 9/27/80) complete with all commentary and intermissions Opera News, John Culshaw Reflections on Manon Lescaut; Opera Quiz; Boris Goldovsky compares Massenet's and Puccini's version of Manon.
April 5, 1980 PARSIFAL THOMAS, TROYANOS, HINES, BAILEY, SHINALL /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence analyses Parsifal and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 12, 1980 ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL* EDA-PIERRE, ALEXANDER, BATTLE, ATHERTON, BERBARIAN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Woitach analyses Seraglio and 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 19, 1980 BILLY BUDD* STILWELL, CASSILY, MORRIS, GLOSSOP, WARD /LEPPARD complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News previewing the 1980-1 season

December 6, 1980 La Traviata - commercial recording due to labour dispute with regular scheduled intermissions

December 13, 1980 The Bartered Bride - commercial recording due to labour dispute with regular scheduled intermissions; quiz exists

December 20, 1980 Cosi fan Tutte (afternoon) - commercial recording (Leinsdorf RCA recording) due to labour dispute with regular scheduled intermissions

December 20, 1980 LULU (& TV evening) MIGENES-JOHNSON, MAZURA, LEAR, RIEGEL, FOLDI, CARLSON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and both intermissions that discuss Lulu and its staging
December 27, 1980 HANSEL UND GRETEL BOOZER, BLEGEN, ELIAS, DECKER, MONK /WOITACH complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News, Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera
January 3, 1981 LULU STRATAS, MAZURA, LEAR, RIEGEL, FOLDI, CARLSON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Woitach analyses Lulu and 2nd intermission Roundtable with Regine Crespin, Alberta Massiello, William Livingstone, and Terrence McNally
January 10, 1981 DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera EWING, CRESPIN, MITCHELL, DUNN, NORDEN, KRAFT /RUDEL
January 24, 1981 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA SAVOVA, BINI, EDWARDS, GRILLO /PATANE
January 24, 1981 PAGLIACCI MIGENES-JOHNSON, CASSILLY, ELVIRA, MONK /PATANE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 31, 1981 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE* G. JONES, WENKOFF, TROYANOS, MCINTYRE, SALMINEN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions. 1st intermission Opera News Robert Lawrence analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 7, 1981 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE* KUEBLER, POPP, DUESING, DONAT, MACURDY, NORDEN, ATHERTON /FOSTER SXM
February 14, 1981 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* BERGONZI, CRUZ-ROMO, MILNES, PETERS, BERINI /VELTRI complete with all commentary and intermissions. 1st intermission Opera News Terrence McNally analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 21, 1981 L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI* HORNE, BLAKE, BRUSCANTINI, BERBERIAN, BATTLE /RESCIGNO complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News Philip Gossett analyses the opera
February 28, 1981 PARADE /ROSENTHAL; LES MAMELLES DE TIRESIAS MALFITANO, HOLLOWAY, MONK, BÖSCH /ROSENTHAL; L'ENFANT ET LES SORTILEGES HARRIS, JONES, ROBBINS, QUIVAR, WELTING /ROSENTHAL complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News Richard Woitach analyses the operas
March 2, 1981 L'ELISIR D'AMORE (& TV) PAVAROTTI, BLEGEN, ELLIS, BRUSCANTINI /RESCIGNO complete with all TV commentary and intermission interviews
March 7, 1981 SALOME JONES, WEIKL, CASSILLY, DUNN, JENKINS /A. DAVIS brief commentary before and after the opera, (odd echo in places)
March 14, 1981 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* PAVAROTTI, BLEGEN, ELLIS, BRUSCANTINI /RESCIGNO
March 21, 1981 MANON LESCAUT* ZYLIS-GARA, CIANNELLA, ELVIRA, CAPPECHI /LEVINE commentary before act 1, after each act, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Singers' Roundtable [NB both intermissions are of very poor quality]
March 28, 1981 LA TRAVIATA* (& TV) COTRUBAS, DOMINGO, MACNEIL /LEVINE (TELECAST LIVE TO EUROPE & ON 9/30/81 ON PBS) complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Opera News Terrance McNally analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Roundtable with Zinka Milanov, Bidu Sayao and Risë Stevens.
April 4, 1981 MAHAGONNY BYBEE, CASSILLY, CHOOKASIAN, MEREDITH, PLISHKA, ULFUNG /LEVINE no commentary
April 11, 1981 WAGNER CONCERT (PARSIFAL Act 2 & TRISTAN UND ISOLDE Love Duet from Act 2) NILSSON, VICKERS, DUNN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
November 14, 1981 IL TABARRO (TV) SCOTTO, MOLDOVEANU, MACNEIL, BERINI /LEVINE
November 14, 1981 SUOR ANGELICA (TV) SCOTTO, TAILLON, NORDEN /LEVINE
November 14, 1981 GIANNI SCHICCHI (TV) BACQUIER, SCOTTO, CREECH, NORDEN, BYBEE, TAILLON /LEVINE
December 5, 1981 TOSCA* NEBLETT, CARRERAS, MILNES /PATANE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Anthony A. Bliss welcomes the Radio Audience then Opera News, Alberta Masiello discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 12, 1981 IL TABARRO SAVOVA, MOLDOVEANU, R.J. CLARK, BERINI /CAMPORI; SUOR ANGELICA CRUZ-ROMO, BERINI, NORDEN /CAMPORI; GIANNI SCHICCHI BACQUIER, MALFITANO, CREECH, NORDEN, BYBEE, TAILLON /CAMPORI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Singers' Roundtable with Rosalind Elias, John Alexander and Alan Monk; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 15, 1981 RIGOLETTO (TV) QUILICO, EDA-PIERRE, PAVAROTTI, BERBARIAN, JONES /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS, 12/16/81)
December 19, 1981 RIGOLETTO QUILICO, EDA-PIERRE, ALEXANDER, BERBERIAN, JONES /LEVINE commentary before and after each act
December 26, 1981 MADAMA BUTTERFLY* ZYLIS-GARA, MAURO, KRAFT, ELVIRA, ATHERTON /FULTON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 2, 1982 LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS* /LEVINE
January 2, 1982 LE ROSSIGNOL* BRADLEY, CATANIA, CHOOKASIAN, CREECH, MEREDITH /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Philip Gossett analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 2, 1982 OEDIPUS REX* LEWIS, TROYANOS, MAZURA, MACURDY /LEVINE
January 9, 1982 HANSEL UND GRETEL BLEGEN, TROYANOS, CHOOKASIAN, KRAFT, DEVLIN /WOITACH complete with all commentary and intermission Singers' Roundtable with Charles Anthony, Nico Castell, George Cheonovksy, and Andre Dobriansky
January 16, 1982 LA BOHEME (& TV) STRATAS, CARRERAS, SCOTTO, STILWELL, MONK, MORRIS /LEVINE missing acts 3 and 4, commentary before act 1, after acts 1 and 2
January 23, 1982 LUISA MILLER RICCIARELLI, PAVAROTTI, NUCCI, PLISHKA, BERINI, CHEEK /SANTI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News William Livingstone analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 30, 1982 TANNHÄUSER CASSILLY, RYSANEK, DUNN, WEIKL, MACURDY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 6, 1982 IL TROVATORE* GIACOMINI, PRICE, QUILICO, CORTEZ, CHEEK /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Terrence McNally analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Singers' Roundtable with Gilda Cruz-Romo, Mignon Dunn, and Julia Migines-Johnson
February 13, 1982 NORMA NEGRI, TROYANOS, DOMINGO, CHEEK /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News Edward Downes analyses the opera
February 20, 1982 VERDI REQUIEM* PRICE, DOMINGO, QUIVAR, CHEEK /LEVINE commentary before and after the performance
February 27, 1982 COSI FAN TUTTE LORENGAR, RENDALL, EWING, CARLSON, BATTLE, GRAMM /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 28, 1982 CONCERT (TV) TROYANOS, DOMINGO /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 3/3/82)
March 6, 1982 LA TRAVIATA MALFITANO, RENDALL, MACNEIL /RESCIGNO almost complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Singers' Roundtable with Licia Albanese, Dorothy Kirsten and Eleanor Steber; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 13, 1982 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA* WORKMAN, BATTLE, BLAKE, CAPECCHI, MONTARSOLO, DI FRANCO /A. DAVIS complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 20, 1982 I VESPRI SICILIANI* SCOTTO, OCHMAN, ELVIRA, RAIMONDI /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Robert Jacobson analyses the Opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 27, 1982 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN* DOMINGO, MORRIS, WELTING, TROYANOS, EDA-PIERRE, HOWELLS, SENECHAL /CHAILLY complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Woitach analyses the Opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 28, 1982 CONCERT (TV) PRICE, HORNE /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 12/3/82)
April 3, 1982 ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL DEVIA, BURROWS, BATTLE, TALVELA/BERBERIAN, CREECH /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Singer's Roundtable; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 10, 1982 FIDELIO* J. MEIER, SOOTER, MACURDY, ROAR, BLEGEN, ATHERTON /HAITINK complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
April 17, 1982 PARSIFAL* HOFFMANN, DUNN, HINES, STEWART, MEREDITH /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Paul Hume analyses Parsifal; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
October 7, 1982 DER ROSENKAVALIER (TV) TROYANOS, TE KANAWA, MOLL, BLEGEN, HAMMOND-STROUD, CONRAD, PAVAROTTI /LEVINE
November 6, 1982 IDOMENEO (TV) PAVAROTTI, COTRUBAS, VON STADE, BEHRENS, ALEXANDER /LEVINE (TELECAST LIVE TO EUROPE & ON 1/26/83 ON PBS)
November 13, 1982 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (TV) SUTHERLAND, KRAUS, ELVIRA, PLISHKA /BONYNGE (TELECAST, PBS: 9/28/83)
December 4, 1982 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* SUTHERLAND, KRAUS, ELVIRA, MORRIS /BONYNGE commentary after acts 2 and 3
December 11, 1982 PARADE /ROSENTHAL
December 11, 1982 LES MAMELLES DE TERESIAS MALFITANO, HOLLOWAY, ELLIS /ROSENTHAL
December 11, 1982 L'ENFANT ES LES SORTILEGES HARRIS, JONES, MERRITT, ROBINSON, FRANK /ROSENTHAL complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
December 18, 1982 MACBETH* MILNES, SCOTTO, PLISHKA, JENKINS /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
December 20, 1982 TANNHÄUSER (TV) CASSILLY, MARTON, TROYANOS, WEIKL, MACURDY /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 3/23/83)
December 25, 1982 HANSEL UND GRETEL (& TV) VON STADE, BLEGEN, ELIAS, KRAFT, DEVLIN /FULTON SXM
January 1, 1983 TANNHÄUSER CASSILLY, J. MEIER, TROYANOS, MONK, HUBNER /LEVINE nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions (missing part of the opening); 1st intermission Opera News Robert Jacobson discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 8, 1983 IL TROVATORE MAURO, ZYLIS-GARA, J. PONS, COSSOTTO, CHEEK /SANTI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News William Weaver discusses prisons in Verdi operas; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Singers Roundtable
January 15, 1983 IDOMENEO* LEWIS, VALENTE, VON STADE, BEHRENS, ALEXANDER /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the Opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 22, 1983 PELLEAS ET MELISANDE* PILOU, DUESING, VAN DAM, HINES, TAILLON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Mohr presents scenes from the play one which the opera is based; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 29, 1983 BORIS GODUNOV TALVELA, NAGY, PLISHKA, OCHMAN, DUNN, MEREDITH, GRAMM /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Siegmund Levery discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 30, 1983 CONCERT (TV) DOMINGO, MILNES /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 5/11/83)
February 5, 1983 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN* RIEGEL, DEVLIN, BRADLEY, CORTEZ, MALFITANO, CATANIA, ATHERTON /RUDEL commentary before and after each act
February 12, 1983 LA GIOCONDA* MARTON, DOMINGO, MACNEIL, DUNN, FURLANETTO, PAYNE /PATANE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Bridget Paolucci discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Richard Mohr on Opera and Player Pianos
February 19, 1983 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* BERGONZI, NEBLETT, NUCCI, PETERS, BERINI /GUADAGNO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, William Weaver on Verdi and the censors; 2nd intermission Singers Roundtable with Renata Scotto and Placido Domingo [some dropouts in this intermission due to damaged tape]
February 26, 1983 ADRIANA LECOUVREUR* SCOTTO, SHICOFF, SERENI, CORTEZ /FULTON commentary before and after each act
March 5, 1983 ARABELLA* TE KANAWA, WEIKL, BATTLE, RENDALL, GRAMM, DUNN, BRADLEY /LEINSDORF complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the Opera; 2nd intermission Leontyne Price talks with Richard Mohr
March 12, 1983 LA BOHEME ZOGHBY, RAFFANTI, CRAIG, STILWELL, SERENI, ROBBINS /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on Opera and film, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; (Act 4 in mono)
March 19, 1983 DER ROSENKAVALIER* TROYANOS, TE KANAWA, HAUGLAND, BLEGEN, HAMMOND-STROUD, KRAFT, CIANNELA /LEVINE Complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Richard Woitach analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 26, 1983 DON CARLO (& TV) DOMINGO, FRENI, QUILICO, BUMBRY, GHIAUROV, FURLANETTO /LEVINE (TELECAST LVE TO EUROPE & ON 2/1/84 ON PBS) commentary before and after each act
April 2, 1983 DIE WALKÜRE G. JONES, BEHRENS, JUNG, NENTWIG, DUNN, TSCHAMMER /VARVISO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Speight Jenkins analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 9, 1983 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA ELVIRA, VON STADE, BLAKE, BRUSCANTINI, MONTARSOLO, DI FRANCO /TCHAKAROV
complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz

April 16, 1983 PARSIFAL JUNG, TROYANOS, MAZURA, ESTES, HAUGLAND /LEVINE commentary before and after each act
October 8, 1983 LES TROYENS (TV**) NORMAN, TROYANOS, DOMINGO, MONK, PLISHKA, TAILLON, AHLSTEDT /LEVINE (INCLUDES EXC. FROM 10/4/83. TELECAST, PBS: 3/28/84)
October 22, 1983 CENTENNIAL GALA -PART I (TV) MARTON, NORMAN, THOMAS, TE KANAWA, JONES, MCCRACKEN, LEAR, STEWART, CRESPIN, RAIMONDI, PETERS, MORRIS, SUTHERLAND, BLEGEN, VON STADE, CASSILLY, NORDEN, BÖSCH, MALFITANO, KRAUS, GEDDA, BERINI, QUILICO, TOMOWA-SINTOW, BATTLE, SOEDERSTRÖM, FRENI, DOMINGO /LEVINE, BONYNGE, STIVENDER, TATE
October 22, 1983 CENTENNIAL GALA -PART II (TV) CABALLE, CARRERAS, PLISHKA, GIACOMINI, MERRITT, CHEEK, WINBERGH, HARTMAN, COTRUBAS, DEVIA, KRAFT, DANIELS, TAJO, NEBLETT, ESTES, VELIS, MACNEIL, ARROYO, DUNN, MAURO, ELVIRA, MOFFO, MERRILL, J. MEIER, ELIAS, RESNIK, ALEXANDER, MACURDY, HINES, AMARA, BERINI, BUMBRY, BRUSON, RICCIARELLI, LEWIS, GHIAUROV, MITCHELL, CIANNELLA, JENKINS, MOSER, SHICOFF, HORNE, NILSSON, PRICE, PAVAROTTI /BERNSTEIN, LEVINE, PRITCHARD, FULTON
December 10, 1983 DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES VON STADE, DUNN, CRAIG, QUIVAR, NORDEN, KRAFT /ROSENTHAL complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
December 17, 1983 ERNANI* (& TV) PAVAROTTI, MITCHELL, MILNES, RAIMONDI /LEVINE (TELECAST LIVE TO EUROPE & ON 12/21/83 ON PBS) audio of TV relay almost complete with all commentary and intermission talk (missing very opening)
December 24, 1983 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE BEHRENS, JUNG, TROYANOS, R. J. CLARK, HAUGLAND /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 31, 1983 HANSEL UND GRETEL ROBINSON, HARRIS, ELIAS, DUNN, GLOSSOP /FULTON complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 7, 1984 FIDELIO MARTON, VICKERS, PLISHKA, MAZURA, PETERS, ATHERTON /TENNSTEDT complete with all commentary and intermission, Opera News, Bidu Sayao discusss the Met's issue of the 1947 Romeo broadcast
January 14, 1984 LA BOHEME COTRUBAS, SHICOFF, DANIELS, SCHEXNAYDER, GLASSMAN, CHEEK /KOHN complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 21, 1984 MAHAGONNY CRAIG, CASSILY, DECKER, MACNEIL, PLISHKA, ULFUNG /TATE
January 28, 1984 MACBETH* MILNES, SCOTTO, PLISHKA, CIANNELLA /LEVINE commentary before and after each act and between scenes; intermission Opera News, Richard Mohr discusses Shakespeare and Macbeth with Dame Judith Anderson
February 4, 1984 LA TRAVIATA MALIPONTE, RENDALL, MACNEIL /PRITCHARD complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Nimet Habahsi talks on the Courtesan in opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 11, 1984 RINALDO HORNE, RAFFANTI, VALENTE, RAMEY, MOSER /BERNARDI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Singers' Roundtable
February 18, 1984 LES TROYENS* NORMAN, SOOTER, MONK, PLISHKA, TAILLON, AHLSTEDT /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Father Owen Lee discusses Virgil, the Aeneid and Berlioz; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 25, 1984 LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS /LEVINE; LE ROSSIGNOL ROLANDI, CATANIA, KRAFT, CREECH, MEREDITH, CHEEK /LEVINE; OEDIPUS REX QUIVAR, LEWIS, MAZURA, BERBERIAN, DOWELL /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera Quiz; 2nd intermission Opera News William Weaver discusses Stravinsky
March 3, 1984 TANNHÄUSER* CASSILLY, ZYLIS-GARA, TROYANOS, MONK, MACURDY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Woitach analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 10, 1984 DON GIOVANNI* MORRIS, BEHRENS, NEBLETT, PLISHKA, EWING, WINBERGH, ROBBINS, MACURDY /TATE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 17, 1984 ARABELLA* ANDRADE, NENTWIG, BATTLE, RENDALL, DUNN, MAZURA, BRADLEY /JANOWSKI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Singer's Roundtable with Frederica von Stade and Gösta Winbergh; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 24, 1984 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO* (& TV) PRICE, GIACOMINI, NUCCI, GIAIOTTI, JONES, FISSORE /LEVINE (TELECAST LIVE TO EUROPE & ON 10/31/84 ON PBS) complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Robert Jacobson analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 31, 1984 ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL* MALFITANO, ARAIZA, BLEGEN, CREECH, KORN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions (a few minor dropouts in commentary); 1st intermission Singer's Roundtable with Patrice Munsel, Eleanor Steber and Blanche Thebom; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 7, 1984 FRANCESCA DA RIMINI* (& TV) SCOTTO, DOMINGO, MACNEIL, LEWIS /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 1/30/85) complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Singers' Roundtable with Gwendoline Bradley, Shirley Verrett and Ezio Flagello
April 14, 1984 BILLY BUDD* DUESING, CASSILLY, MORRIS, GLOSSOP, R.J. CLARK /ATHERTON complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
April 21, 1984 DON CARLO* CIANNELLA, CABALLE, BRUSON, VERRETT, PLISHKA, HINES /LEVINE nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions (missing end of quiz, part of intro to Act 3, and final end commentary); 1st intermission Opera News James Levine looks forward to the next season; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
May 13, 1984 CENTENNIAL GALA III (TV) (PRIMARILY BALLET) DOMINGO /SCHERMERHORN (TELECAST, PBS: 5/16/84)
December 8, 1984 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA NUCCI, BATTLE, GONZALES, DARA, MONTARSOLO, DI FRANCO /MUELLER no commentary
December 15, 1984 ELEKTRA* VINZING, J. MEIER, LUDWIG, ESTES, CASSILLY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature Father Owen Lee discusses the opera.
December 22, 1984 COSI FAN TUTTE* VANESS, RENDALL, MURRAY, HOLLOWAY, HAMARI, MACNEIL /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
December 29, 1984 SIMON BOCCANEGRA* (& TV) MILNES, TOMOWA-SINTOW, MOLDOVEANU, PLISHKA, R.J. CLARK /LEVINE (TELECAST LIVE TO EUROPE & ON 4/17/85 ON PBS) complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 3, 1985 AIDA (TV) PRICE, MCCRACKEN, COSSOTTO, ESTES, MACURDY /LEVINE
January 5, 1985 ARIADNE AUF NAXOS* NORMAN, ROLANDI, EWING, COCHRAN, WELLER /DAVIS complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 12, 1985 LA CLEMENZA DI TITO* RIEGEL, CONNELL, TROYANOS, ROBINSON, MURRAY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 19, 1985 WOZZECK* BÖSCH, BEHRENS, ULFUNG, CASSILLY, MAZURA /LEVINE nearly complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature, Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera (missing the linking commentary between acts 1 and 2 due to damaged tape)
January 26, 1985 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN* KRAUS, MALFITANO, MORRIS, BYBEE, VELIS /RUDEL complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Robert Jacobson discusses Offenbach and Les Contes d'Hoffmann, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 2, 1985 OTELLO DOMINGO, M. PRICE, MILNES, LEWIS, KRAFT /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News George Jellinick discusses Shakespeare and Othello; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission interview with Tatiana Troyanos
February 9, 1985 LA BOHEME* MALFITANO, LIMA, ZSCHAU, SCHEXNAYDER, HARTMAN, CHEEK /DOMINGO nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions (missing end of quiz and intro to Act 4); 1st intermission Singers' Roundtable; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 16, 1985 LOHENGRIN* DOMINGO, TOMOWA-SINTOW, MARTON, MCINTYRE, MACURDY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Mohr talks to record producers about recording opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 23, 1985 EUGENE ONEGIN* NUCCI, GRIFFEL, RAITZIN, JONES, PLISHKA /JARVI commentary before and after each act
March 2, 1985 MANON LESCAUT* MALIPONTE, MOLDOVEANU, CARLSON, BERBERIAN /SANTI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Nimet Habachy discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission William Egerton discusses opera on the music box
March 9, 1985 ERNANI* MAURO, MITCHELL, ELVIRA, PLISHKA /FULTON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News George Bolett on operatic piano transcription; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Owen Lee analyses Wagner and Meistersinger [part 1]
March 16, 1985 DIE MEISTERSINGER NENTWIG, HAGGANDER, SOOTER, WELLER, KESLING, RENDALL, R.J. CLARK /PERICK complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Owen Lee analyses Wagner and Meistersinger [part 2]; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 23, 1985 PORGY AND BESS R. ALEXANDER, ESTES, WILLIAMS, BAKER, M. MARTIN, QUIVAR /LEVINE Complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Robert Jacobson interviews Frances Gershwin Godowsky, George and Ira Gershwin's sister; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 27, 1985 TOSCA (TV) BEHRENS, DOMINGO, MACNEIL /SINOPOLI
March 30, 1985 TOSCA BEHRENS, DOMINGO, MACNEIL /SINOPOLI commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News discussion of Puccini and Tosca (Acts 2 and 3 in mono due to poor FM stereo reception)
April 6, 1985 RIGOLETTO* QUILICO, BLEGEN, RAFFANTI, MACURDY, JONES /SANTI commentary before and after each act
April 13, 1985 LULU* MIGENES-JOHNSON, MAZURA, LEAR, FOLDI, SOOTER, CARLSON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Edwin McArthur discusses the Met LP release of TANNHÄUSER from 1941; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 20, 1985 PARSIFAL VICKERS, RYSANEK, MOLL, ESTES, MAZURA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Preview of the next season; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 7, 1985 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA* BEHRENS, MOLDOVEANU, CLARK, JONES /NAVARRO SXM
December 7, 1985 PAGLIACCI* VICKERS, PILOU, MILNES, SCHEXNAYDER /NAVARRO commentary before and after the opera
December 14, 1985 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO* (& TV) RAIMONDI, BATTLE, VANESS, ALLEN, VON STADE, KORN, TAILLON /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 4/23/86), commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Robert Tuggle remembers Lauritz Melchior
December 21, 1985 PARADE /ROSENTHAL
December 21, 1985 LES MAMELLES DE TIRESIAS DANIELS, HOLLOWAY, SCHEXNAYDER /ROSENTHAL
December 21, 1985 L'ENFANT ET LES SORTILEGES HARRIS, JONES, MERRITT, MARTIN, FRANK /ROSENTHAL
December 28, 1985 LOHENGRIN* P. HOFMANN, MARTON, RYSANEK, ROAR, MACURDY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Owen Lee analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 4, 1986 L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI* HORNE, AHLSTEDT, MONK, MONTARSOLO, MERRITT /LEVINE commentary after each act
January 10, 1986 LOHENGRIN (TV) P. HOFMANN, MARTON, RYSANEK, ROAR, MACURDY /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 3/26/86) missing act 1, commentary after acts 2 & 3
January 11, 1986 JENUFA R. ALEXANDER, JENKINS, DUNN, LEWIS, CHOOKASIAN /NEUMANN complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st Intermission Opera News, Boris Goldovsky discusses the opera; 2nd Intermission Opera Quiz
January 11, 1986 L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI (TV) HORNE, AHLSTEDT, MONK, MONTARSOLO, MERRITT /LEVINE
January 18, 1986 TOSCA ZSCHAU, PAVAROTTI, MACNEIL /CILLARIO commentary before and after each act
January 25, 1986 ROMEO ET JULIETTE* MALFITANO, SHICOFF, PLISHKA, HARRIS, SCHEXNAYDER /CAMBRELING incomplete tape with gaps. Brief opening commentary
February 1, 1986 KHOVANSHCHINA HAUGLAND, POPOV, DERNESCH, TALVELA, OCHMAN, MONK /JARVI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st Intermission Opera News, Boris Goldovsky discusses Mussorgsky and Khovanshchina; 2nd Intermission Opera Quiz
February 8, 1986 PORGY AND BESS BUMBRY, MOSELY, WILLIAMS, BAKER, BRADLEY, TYLER /LEVINE commentary after each act and between scenes
February 15, 1986 IDOMENEO* RENDALL, VALENTE, VON STADE, BEHRENS, ALEXANDER /TATE [900th Texaco broadcast] complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 22, 1986 FRANCESCA DA RIMINI* SCOTTO, MAURO, MACNEIL, LEWIS /SANTI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Singers' Roundtable; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; Robert Tuggle recollects Claudia Muzio
March 1, 1986 SAMSON* VICKERS, MITCHELL, TE KANAWA, WALKER, MACURDY, PLISHKA /RUDEL complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission George Jellinek analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 8, 1986 FALSTAFF* TADDEI, NEBLETT, MONK, COSSOTTO, BLEGEN, AHLSTEDT, BOOZER /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Richard Mohr discusses Shakespeare, Verdi and Falstaff; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 15, 1986 SIMON BOCCANEGRA MILNES, TE KANAWA, MOLDOVEANU, PLISHKA, R.J. CLARK /CHUNG complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Owen Lee analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 22, 1986 CARMEN* EWING, DOMINGO, MALFITANO, DEVLIN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Alfred Hubay talks about the 1939 Simon Boccanegra LP release
March 29, 1986 AIDA* TOMOWA-SINTOW, PAVAROTTI, COSSOTTO, MANUGUERRA, KAVRAKOS /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Nimet Habachy discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Richard Mohr interviews Zinka Milanov
April 5, 1986 DER ROSENKAVALIER TROYANOS, G.JONES, HAUGLAND, BATTLE, REICH, CATANIA, RAFFANTI /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Richard Mohr interviews James Levine; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 12, 1986 DON CARLO CIANNELLA, MILLO, NUCCI, VERRETT, MORRIS, KAVRAKOS /STIVENDER complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Owen Lee analyses Parsifal [part I]; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 19, 1986 PARSIFAL P. HOFFMAN, GILMORE, TALVELA, R.J. CLARK, MAZURA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Owen Lee analyses Parsifal [part II]; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 6, 1986 ROMEO ET JULIETTE* GASDIA, KRAUS, PLISHKA, HARRIS, SCHEXNAYDER /DOMINGO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News interviews with Met manager and chairman of Texaco, Richard Mohr talks to Joan Sutherland; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 13, 1986 I PURITANI* SUTHERLAND, BLAKE, MILNES, RAMEY /BONYNGE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, George Jellinek discusses Bellini and bel canto; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; Post-Show tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland
December 20, 1986 FIDELIO BEHRENS, SOOTER, HÖLLE, NIMSGERN, MCLAUGHLIN, MCCAULEY /PERICK commentary before act 2 and after both acts
December 27, 1986 DIE FLEDERMAUS TE KANAWA, HAGEGARD, BLEGEN, RENDALL, TROYANOS, DEVLIN /TATE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Boris Goldovsky discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 31, 1986 DIE FLEDERMAUS (TV) TE KANAWA, HAGEGARD, BLEGEN, RENDALL, TROYANOS, DEVLIN /TATE SXM
January 3, 1987 LA BOHEME MITCHELL, GULYAS, DANIELS, SCHEXNAYDER, HOLT, FURLANETTO /RUDEL commentary before and after each act
January 10, 1987 RIGOLETTO MILNES, DEVIA, GULYAS, JONES, KAVRAKOS /FULTON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Owen Lee discusses Verdi and Rigoletto; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 11, 1987 SUTHERLAND-PAVAROTTI GALA (TV) SUTHERLAND, PAVAROTTI, NUCCI, JONES, FURLANETTO /BONYNGE (TELECAST, PBS: 3/4/87)
January 17, 1987 MADAMA BUTTERFLY SCOTTO, DVORSKY, BYBEE, CARLSON, ANTHONY /FULTON commentary before and after each act
January 24, 1987 TANNHÄUSER* CASSILLY, NORMAN, RANDOVA, HAGEGARD, ROOTERING /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Owen Lee analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 31, 1987 MANON LESCAUT* MITCHELL, MAURO, SCHEXNAYDER, TAJO /RUDEL complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st Intermission Opera News Richard Mohr talks with Samuel Ramey; 2nd Intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd Intermission Edwin McArthur remembers Rosa Ponselle
February 7, 1987 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO* VAN DAM, BATTLE, SOEDERSTRÖM, HYNNINEN, VON STADE, MONTARSOLO, DI FRANCO /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, preview of Valentine's Day; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 14, 1987 LA CLEMENZA DI TITO* RENDALL, R. ALEXANDER, TROYANOS, HONG, MONTAGUE /LEVINE SXM
February 21, 1987 DER ROSENKAVALIER* FASSBÄNDER, SOEDERSTRÖM, KORN, HENDRICKS, HORNIK, CATANIA, GULYAS /LEVINE nearly complete (missing opening commentary); 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Boris Goldovsky analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 28, 1987 MANON* MALFITANO, GULYAS, HOLLOWAY, FURLANETTO, SENECHAL /ROSENTHAL complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Owen Lee analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 28, 1987 CARMEN (TV) BALTSA, CARRERAS, MITCHELL, RAMEY /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 4/1/87)
March 7, 1987 DIE WALKÜRE* BEHRENS, ALTMEYER, P. HOFMANN, MCINTYRE, FASSBÄNDER, HAUGLAND /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Boris Goldovksy analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 14, 1987 BORIS GODUNOV TALVELA, NAGY, PLISHKA, POPOV, MINEVA, MAZURA, KOPTCHAK /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Boris Goldovksy analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 21, 1987 CARMEN* BALTSA, CARRERAS, COTRUBAS, RAMEY /LEVINE Complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st Intermission Opera News Richard Mohr talks with Martina Arroyo; 2nd Intermission - Opera Quiz; 3rd Intermission - Alfred Hubay previews the Met release of Les Contes d'Hoffmann from 1955
March 28, 1987 TURANDOT MARTON, DOMINGO, MITCHELL, PLISHKA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Nimet Habachy discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 4, 1987 DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES (& TV) EWING, CRESPIN, NORMAN, QUIVAR, NORDEN, KRAFT /ROSENTHAL (TELECAST, PBS: 5/6/87) from CBC rebroadcast
April 4, 1987 TURANDOT (TV) MARTON, DOMINGO, MITCHELL, PLISHKA /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 1/27/88) SXM
April 11, 1987 PARSIFAL JENKINS, TROYANOS, SOTIN, ESTES, MCINTYRE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News a preview of the 1987-88 season; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 18, 1987 SAMSON ET DALILA* HORNE, VICKERS, QUILICO, COOK, MACURDY /FOURNET complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st Intermission Opera News, Nimet Habachy discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 5, 1987 TOSCA BEHRENS, MAURO, MACNEIL /BADEA commentary after each act
December 12, 1987 ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL* DONAT, WINBERGH, MILLS, ZEDNIK, SALMINEN /JANOWSKI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st Intermission Opera News, Richard Woitach discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 19, 1987 IL TROVATORE* PAVAROTTI, SUTHERLAND, NUCCI, VERRETT, DE GRANDIS /BONYNGE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st Intermission Opera News, Boris Goldovsky discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 26, 1987 LA TRAVIATA TOMOWA-SINTOW, ROSENSHEIN, MILNES /FULTON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Risë Stevens and Richard Mohr remember Lotte Lehmann; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 2, 1988 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN* SHICOFF, MORRIS, BRADLEY, TROYANOS, R. ALEXANDER, QUITTMEYER, LACIURA /DUTOIT SXM plus 1st intermission Owen Lee analyses the opera
January 8, 1988 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN (TV) SHICOFF, MORRIS, BRADLEY, TROYANOS, R. ALEXANDER, QUITTMEYER, LACIURA /DUTOIT (TELECAST, PBS: 3/2/88) SXM
January 9, 1988 DIE FLEDERMAUS DANIELS, ALLEN, BLEGEN, RENDALL, TROYANOS, DEVLIN /ROSENTHAL
January 16, 1988 DAS RHEINGOLD SOTIN, DERNESCH, MAZURA, JERUSALEM, GJEVANG, MACURDY, HAUGLAND /LEVINE Very nearly complete (missing fragments of the opening commentary) with Pre-curtain feature, Owen Lee analyses Das Rheingold
January 23, 1988 MACBETH BURCHINAL, CONNELL, RAMEY, POLOZOV /KORD complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Terrance McNallay discusses Macbeth; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (extended). Only acts 1 and 2 performed due to a suicide among the audience
January 30, 1988 PELLEAS ET MELISANDE VON STADE, AHLSTEDT, VAN DAM, MACURDY, TAILLON /LEVINE Complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Nimet Habachy discusses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 6, 1988 LUISA MILLER MILLO, MAURO/GLASSMAN, MILNES, PLISHKA, QUIVAR, DE GRANDIS /SANTI
February 13, 1988 TURANDOT DIMITROVA, MARTINUCCI, MITCHELL, DE GRANDIS /SANTI Complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Peter Bonelli discusses Puccini and the riddles of Turandot; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 20, 1988 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* COLE, UPSHAW, SCHEXNAYDER, TADDEI /WEIKERT complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 27, 1988 OTELLO* DOMINGO, TE KANAWA, DIAZ, GLASSMAN, BYBEE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Owen Lee discusses Otello, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Heifetz memorial
March 5, 1988 SIEGFRIED KRÄMER, BEHRENS, HIESTERMANN, SOTIN, GJEVANG, WLASCHIHA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky discusses Siegfried, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 12, 1988 ARIADNE AUF NAXOS* (& TV) NORMAN, BATTLE, TROYANOS, KING, NENTWIG /LEVINE (TELECAST LIVE TO EUROPE & ON 4/27/88 ON PBS)
March 19, 1988 DIE WALKÜRE BEHRENS, RYSANEK, P. HOFMANN, ADAM, W. MEIER, HAUGLAND /LEVINE commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Alfred Hubay discusses the Met release of the 1954 Chenier; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 26, 1988 KHOVANSHCHINA HAUGLAND, GULYAS, TOCZYSKA, PLISHKA, OCHMAN, MCINTYRE /CONLON Complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Mohr interviews Plácido Domingo, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 2, 1988 LULU* MALFITANO, MAZURA, TROYANOS, HAMILTON, FOLDI, CARLSON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Boris Goldovsky discusses Berg and Lulu; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 9, 1988 COSI FAN TUTTE* TE KANAWA, RENDALL, MONTAGUE, HAGEGARD, HONG, CHEEK /EPSTEIN SXM
April 16, 1988 WERTHER KRAUS, VON STADE, STILWELL, UPSHAW /FOURNET Complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News a preview of the 1988-89 season; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
June 4, 1988 CONCERT (TV) BATTLE, DOMINGO /LEVINE (TELECAST ON NHK, TOKYO)
September 18, 1988 RECITAL (TV) PAVAROTTI /LEVINE (piano)
October 15, 1988 IL TROVATORE (TV) PAVAROTTI, MARTON, MILNES, ZAJICK, WELLS /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 10/21/88)
December 3, 1988 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (& TV) NUCCI, BATTLE, BLAKE, DARA, FURLANETTO, DI FRANCO /WEIKERT (TELECAST, PBS: 2/17/89) no commentary
December 10, 1988 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA* DIMITROVA, MAURO, FONDARY, BYBEE /SICILIANI ; PAGLIACCI* GIACOMINI, SOVIERO, J. PONS, SCHEXNAYDER /SICILIANI nearly complete (missing opening commentary) with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
December 17, 1988 CARMEN* HORNE, LUCHETTI, FRENI, RAMEY /DOMINGO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Nimet Habachy discusses Bizet and Carmen; 2nd intermission A Prompters' Roundtable; 3rd intermission Richard Mohr talks with Rïse Stevens on her 50^th Anniversary
December 24, 1988 HANSEL UND GRETEL BLEGEN, VON STADE, MARTIN, NAPIER, NOBLE /PERICK
December 31, 1988 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO CHEEK, HONG, R. ALEXANDER, HAMPSON, VON OTTER, VAN ALLAN, DI FRANCO /ELDER Complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Mohr talks with Sid Cæsar, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 7, 1989 AIDA* MILLO, DOMINGO, TOCZYSKA, MILNES, PLISHKA /LEVINE Complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Owen Lee discusses Verdi and Aida, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, 3rd intermission Alfred Hubay talks with Rose Bampton
January 14, 1989 DIE FLEDERMAUS* DANIELS, HAGEGARD, MILLS, ROSENSHEIN, TROYANOS, DUESING /RUDEL SXM
January 21, 1989 IL TROVATORE* PAVAROTTI, MILLO, MILNES, COSSOTTO, PLISHKA /LEVINE Complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Woitach previews Bluebeard's Castle & Erwartung, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 28, 1989 BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE* RAMEY, NORMAN /LEVINE
January 28, 1989 ERWARTUNG NORMAN /LEVINE Complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News, Garrick Ohlsson discusses the art of the piano encore
February 1, 1989 BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (TV) RAMEY, NORMAN /LEVINE
February 1, 1989 ERWARTUNG (TV) NORMAN /LEVINE
February 4, 1989 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA HAMPSON, MURRAY, LOPARDO, CAPECCHI, LLOYD, DI FRANCO /WEIKERT no commentary
February 11, 1989 DON CARLO* SHICOFF, M. PRICE, WEIKL, TROYANOS, RAIMONDI, ROOTERING /LEVINE Complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Mohr talks to Eva Marton; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 18, 1989 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* DEVIA, GLASSMAN, G. QUILICO, HOWELL /MUELLER
February 25, 1989 IDOMENEO* JERUSALEM, M. MARTIN, QUITTMEYER, GRIFFEL, LEWIS /STIVENDER commentary before and after each act
March 4, 1989 LA BOHEME D'AMICO, DOMINGO, NEBLETT, CONI, HAMILTON, PLISHKA /SANTI commentary before act 1 and after act 3
March 11, 1989 SALOME* MARTON, WEIKL, DERNESCH, G. CLARK, BAKER /JANOWSKI closing commentary
March 18, 1989 WERTHER* WILSON, K. KUHLMANN, WEIKL, UPSHAW /FOURNET SXM
March 25, 1989 EUGENE ONEGIN* HYNNINEN, FRENI, HADLEY, WALKER, SOTIN /LEVINE
April 1, 1989 DAS RHEINGOLD* SOTIN, LUDWIG, WLASCHIHA, JERUSALEM, SVENDEN, ROOTERING, SALMINEN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature Owen Lee analyses the opera
April 8, 1989 DIE WALKÜRE* (& TV**) BEHRENS, NORMAN, LAKES, MORRIS, LUDWIG, MOLL /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 6/19/90) complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Owen Lee analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 15, 1989 SIEGFRIED* JOHNS, BEHRENS, HIESTERMANN, SOTIN, BEAN, WLASCHIHA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Owen Lee analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 22, 1989 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG* BEHRENS, KRÄMER, SALMINEN, RAFFELL, HARRIES, WLASCHIHA, LUDWIG /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Owen Lee analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 29, 1989 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* PAVAROTTI, BATTLE, G. QUILICO, PLISHKA /PANNI
October 7, 1989 AIDA (TV) MILLO, DOMINGO, ZAJICK, MILNES, BURCHULADZE /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 12/27/89) SXM
December 9, 1989 DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN* J. MEIER, SCHUNK, J. MARTIN, COURTNEY, DERNESCH /PERICK complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Owen Lee analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 16, 1989 IL TABARRO ZSCHAU, WEST, NOBLE, CASTLE /LEVINE
December 16, 1989 SUOR ANGELICA SOVIERO, QUIVAR, GUYER /LEVINE
December 16, 1989 GIANNI SCHICCHI POLA, HONG, COLE, GUYER, KELLY, DUNN /LEVINE
December 23, 1989 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN* LIMA, VAN DAM, MILLS, FORST, MALFITANO, BOOZER, LACIURA /CAMBRELING SXM
December 30, 1989 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER MORRIS, GESSENDORF, PLISHKA, LAKES /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature, Owen Lee analyses the opera
January 6, 1990 WOZZECK* HORNIK, BEHRENS, G. CLARK, KING, MCINTYRE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature, Terence McNally analyses Wozzeck
January 13, 1990 TURANDOT G. JONES, POPOV, MILLO, MACURDY /SANTI commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Alfred Hubay's memories
January 20, 1990 COSI FAN TUTTE* MIMS, HADLEY, TROYANOS, HAMPSON, HONG, VAN ALLAN /LEVINE commentary before and after each act
January 27, 1990 PORGY AND BESS ESTES, MITCHELL, WILLIAMS, BAKER, BRADLEY, HUBBARD, JOHNSON /LEVINE commentary before and after each act and between scenes
February 3, 1990 LA GIOCONDA* DIMITROVA, BECCARIA, TOCZYSKA, FONDARY, PLISHKA, MILCHEVA /SANTI commentary before and after each act; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 10, 1990 LA TRAVIATA MIMS, KRAUS, CONI /VELTRI commentary after act 3
February 17, 1990 SAMSON ET DALILA* VERRETT, DOMINGO, FONDARY, DEVLIN, MACURDY /DUTOIT SXM
February 24, 1990 RIGOLETTO* NUCCI, ANDERSON, PAVAROTTI, SVENDEN, FURLANETTO /PANNI SXM
March 3, 1990 FAUST* SHICOFF, DANIELS, MORRIS, HAMPSON, ZIEGLER /DUTOIT complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Owen Lee analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 10, 1990 TEXACO-MET 50TH ANNIVERSARY HAMPSON, ZIEGLER, G. QUILICO, CAPECCHI, FURLANETTO, MORRIS, VANESS, HADLEY, UPSHAW, PLISHKA, RAMEY, MOLL, SHICOFF, DEVIA, DANIELS, ARAIZA, PUTNAM /LEVINE, RUDEL, SANTI, FULTON, EPSTEIN, DUTOIT commentary between selections
March 17, 1990 MANON LESCAUT* FRENI, DVORSKY, SCHEXNAYDER, TAJO /SANTI SXM
March 24, 1990 ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL* DEVIA, HEILMANN, MILLS, MAGNUSSON, MOLL /LEVINE SXM
March 31, 1990 LA BOHEME ESPERIAN, WILSON, GUSTAFSON, SCHNEXNAYDER, NOBLE, LANGAN /WEIKERT no commentary
April 5, 1990 DON GIOVANNI (TV) RAMEY, VANESS, MATTILA, FURLANETTO, UPSHAW, HADLEY, COKORINOS, MOLL /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 10/31/90) SXM
April 7, 1990 DIE WALKÜRE BEHRENS, NORMAN, LAKES, MORRIS, ENGERT-ELY, MOLL /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Woitach discusses stormy weather in opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 14, 1990 DON GIOVANNI* FURLANETTO, VANESS, PUTNAM, RAMEY, UPSHAW, WINBERGH, ROBBINS, SALMINEN /LEVINE SXM
April 21, 1990 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG BEHRENS, JERUSALEM, SALMINEN, RAFFEL, LISOWSKA, WLASCHIHA, LUDWIG /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Hugh Southern discusses the 1990-91 broadcast season with Richard Mohr; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 23, 1990 DAS RHEINGOLD (TV**) MORRIS, LUDWIG, WLASCHIHA, JERUSALEM, SVENDEN, ROOTERING, SALMINEN /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 6/18/90)
April 26, 1990 SIEGFRIED (TV**) JERUSALEM, BEHRENS, ZEDNIK, MORRIS, SVENDEN, WLASCHIHA /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 6/20/90)
May 5, 1990 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (TV**) (VOLKERT), JERUSALEM, SALMINEN, RAFFELL, LISOWSKA, LUDWIG, WLASCHIHA /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 6/21/90 - INCLUDES MAJOR PORTIONS OF 4/28/90 PERFORMANCE. VOLKERT DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE TELECAST.)
December 8, 1990 LA TRAVIATA SOVIERO, HADLEY, SCHEXNAYDER /SACCANI
December 15, 1990 SALOME* BEHRENS, WLASCHIHA, G. CLARK, DERNESCH, BAKER /CONLON
December 22, 1990 ANDREA CHENIER* MARTINUCCI, MILLO, MILNES, KESLING /RUDEL commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Nimet Hibachy analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission George Jelineck remembers Eleanor Steber; on-stage presentation to mark Sherill Milnes' 25th anniversary at the Met after act 3.
December 22, 1990 SEMIRAMIDE (TV) ANDERSON, HORNE, RAMEY, SHIN, OLSEN, CHEEK /CONLON (TELECAST, PBS: 10/16/91) SXM
December 29, 1990 SEMIRAMIDE CUBERLI, HORNE, RAMEY, SHIN, C. MERRITT, CHEEK /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermissions Opera Quiz
January 5, 1991 FAUST* LEECH, SOVIERO, MORRIS, G. QUILICO, QUITTMEYER /FULTON SXM
January 12, 1991 RIGOLETTO NUCCI, SHIN, LEECH, DUPONT, WHITE /AJMONE-MARSAN complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Opera News Bridget Paulucci discusses Verdi's great quartets; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 19, 1991 BORIS GODUNOV PLISHKA, ZEDNIK, KOPTCHAK, POPOV, TOCZYSKA, SHIRLEY-QUIRK, GHIUSELEV /BADEA no commentary
January 26, 1991 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* (& TV) PAVAROTTI, MILLO, NUCCI, BLACKWELL, QUIVAR /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 5/22/91) SXM 1st intermission Owen Lee analyses the opera
February 2, 1991 DON GIOVANNI* HAMPSON, STUDER, SCHUMAN, PLISHKA, UPSHAW, BLOCHWITZ, COKORINOS, MOLL /LEVINE
February 9, 1991 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE* (& TV**) ARAIZA, BATTLE, HEMM, SERRA, MOLL, KILDUFF, ZEDNIK /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 6/19/91) SXM
February 16, 1991 FIDELIO* CONNELL, LAKES, MOLL, WELKER, DONATH, KAASCH /PERICK commentary after both acts
February 23, 1991 LA BOHEME HONG, DOMINGO, DANIELS, HAWKINS, COWAN, CHEEK /BADEA 1st intermission Owen Lee analyses the opera
March 2, 1991 LUISA MILLER* ESPERIAN, PAVAROTTI, NUCCI, PLISHKA, KOPTCHAK, WHITE /SANTI
March 9, 1991 DER ROSENKAVALIER* ZIEGLER, GESSENDORF, HAUGLAND, KILDUFF, MEREDITH, CASTLE, PAVAROTTI /KOUT
March 16, 1991 KATA KABANOVA* BENACKOVA, RYSANEK, QUITTMEYER, OCHMAN, GLASSMAN /MACKERRAS some commentary
March 23, 1991 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO RAMEY, MCLAUGHLIN, LOTT, SCHMIDT, VON STADE, KORN, DI FRANCO /CONLON closing commentary
March 30, 1991 I PURITANI* GRUBEROVA, MERRITT, GAVANELLI, PLISHKA /BONYNGE SXM
April 6, 1991 PARSIFAL DOMINGO, NORMAN, LLOYD, WLASCHIHA, HAUGLAND /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Richard Mohr interviews Licia Albanese and Jerome Hines; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 13, 1991 TOSCA GULEGHINA, TODISCO, MORRIS /DOMINGO
April 20, 1991 LA CLEMENZA DI TITO* KAASCH, R. ALEXANDER, TROYANOS, HONG, BUNNELL /LEVINE
September 23, 1991 NEW MET 25TH ANNIVERSARY GALA (TV) RIGOLETTO, ACT III: NUCCI, STUDER, PAVAROTTI, SVENDEN, GHIAUROV /LEVINE - OTELLO, ACT III: DOMINGO, FRENI, DIAZ /LEVINE - DIE FLEDERMAUS, ACT II: DANIELS, PREY, KILDUFF, VON OTTER, CROFT, VON STADE, HAMPSON, ANDERSON, MILNES, MILLO, FURLANETTO, BATTLE, RAMEY, FRENI /LEVINE (LIVE PAY-PER-VIEW TELECAST. SLIGHTLY ABRIDGED TELECAST SHOWN ON PBS: 3/9/92)
November 16, 1991 L'ELISIR D'AMORE (TV) PAVAROTTI, BATTLE, J. PONS, DARA /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 12/23/92)
December 7, 1991 COSI FAN TUTTE* VANESS, LOPARDO, ZIEGLER, COWAN, UPSHAW, FELLER /HAGER
December 14, 1991 ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL* DEVIA, OLSEN, KILDUFF, LACIURA, SALMINEN /LEVINE SXM
December 21, 1991 IDOMENEO* HEPPNER, UPSHAW, MENTZER, VANESS, KAZARAS /LEVINE commentary after acts 1 and 3; 1st intermission Opera News Owen Lee analyses the opera
December 28, 1991 AIDA MITCHELL, BARTOLINI, TOCZYSKA, MORRIS, PLISHKA /SACCANI no commentary
January 4, 1992 GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES* STRATAS, HAGEGARD, G. CLARK, G. QUILICO, HORNE, FLEMING, DAHL, KAZARAS /LEVINE
January 10, 1992 GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES (TV**) STRATAS, HAGEGARD, G. QUILICO, G. CLARK, HORNE, FLEMING, DAHL, KAZARAS /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 9/14/92) SXM
January 11, 1992 LA BOHEME VILLARRÖL, FARINA, DANIELS, JOSEPHSON, HARTMAN, PLISHKA /VELTRI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Bridget Paulucci discusses Puccini and nostalgia; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 18, 1992 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER* MORRIS, BEHRENS, SALMINEN, LAKES /CONLON complete with all commentary and pre-curtain Opera Quiz
January 25, 1992 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* PAVAROTTI, BATTLE, J. PONS, PLISHKA /PANNI SXM
February 1, 1992 TURANDOT G. JONES, POPOV, STRATAS, GHIUSELEV /SANTI commentary after each act; 1st intermission Opera News Owen Lee analyses the opera
February 8, 1992 FIDELIO* BEHRENS, GOLDBERG, SALMINEN, WLASCHIHA, MCNAIR, KAASCH /PERICK SXM
February 15, 1992 TANNHÄUSER* JOHNS, EVANS, TROYANOS, SCHMIDT, ROOTERING /PERICK complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Terrance McNally discusses Wagner and Tannhäuser; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

February 22, 1992 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA ICHIHARA, MITCHELL, MILNES, MURPHY, QUIVAR /FULTON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Thor Eckert Jr. interviews Delora Zajick; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 29, 1992 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA* HAMPSON, VON STADE, OLSEN, QUILICO, RAMEY, KELLY /WEIKERT SXM
March 7, 1992 RIGOLETTO* NUCCI, SWENSON, LEECH, ROOTERING, WHITE /SANTI SXM
March 14, 1992 DON CARLO SYLVESTER, MILLO, ZAJICK, CHERNOV, RAMEY, KOPTCHAK /LEVINE commentary after the opera; 1st intermission Owen Lee analyses the opera
March 21, 1992 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO FURLANETTO, UPSHAW, SCHUMAN, HAMPSON, VON STADE, MOLL, CHRISTIN /LEVINE closing commentary
March 28, 1992 PARSIFAL (& TV**) JERUSALEM, W. MEIER, MOLL, WEIKL, MAZURA /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 4/7/93) 1st intermission Owen Lee analyses the opera only
April 4, 1992 BILLY BUDD* HAMPSON, G. CLARK, MORRIS, HELD /MACKERRAS complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
April 8, 1992 LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (TV) DANIELS, DOMINGO, MILNES /SLATKIN (TELECAST, PBS: 6/10/92)
April 11, 1992 LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST DANIELS, DOMINGO, MILNES /SLATKIN no commentary
April 18, 1992 ELEKTRA* DANER, VOIGT, RYSANEK, ROOTERING, KING /LEVINE commentary before and after the opera
October 10, 1992 FALSTAFF (TV) PLISHKA, FRENI, POLA, HORNE, BONNEY, LOPARDO, GRAHAM /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 9/13/93)
October 12, 1992 THE VOYAGE NOBLE, TROYANOS, PERRY, SCHUMAN /FERDEN almost complete with all commentary and both intermissions Opera News Tim Page talks with Philip Glass, David Henry Hwang and the cast and production team (missing very end of broadcast)
December 5, 1992 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* OLSEN, BATTLE, OSWALD, DARA /MUELLER (SXM only)
December 12, 1992 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* ANDERSON, LEECH, FU, PLISHKA /PANNI some commentary
December 19, 1992 EUGENE ONEGIN LEIFERKUS, FRENI, HADLEY, SVENDEN, GHIAUROV /OZAWA complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: Regina Resnik – Fifty Years in Opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 26, 1992 JENUFA* BENACKOVA, HEPPNER, RYSANEK, TRUSSEL, CHRISTIN /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: Albert Innauarto analyses Jenufa; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 2, 1993 LA BOHEME MITCHELL, LEECH, SOVIERO, ROBERTSON, OSWALD, ROBBINS /FIORE Commentary before and after acts one, three and four and after act two
January 9, 1993 TOSCA TOMOWA-SINTOW, BARTOLINI, MORRIS /BADEA
January 16, 1993 SEMIRAMIDE CUBERLI, SCALCHI, ALAIMO, CHO, OLSEN /MARIN complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 23, 1993 DIE MEISTERSINGER* MCINTYRE, MATTILA, ARAIZA, PREY, SVENDEN, MAGNUSSON, ROOTERING /LEVINE (SXM only)
January 30, 1993 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA ICHIHARA, SWEET, J. PONS, BLACKWELL, SCHEMTCHUK /FIORE
February 6, 1993 IL TROVATORE* BARTOLINI, MILLO, CHERNOV, ZAJICK, WELLS /SANTI
February 13, 1993 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN* DOMINGO, VANESS, HELD, MENTZER, LACIURA /LEVINE complete commentary before and after each act; 1st intermission Opera News George Jellinek discusses Hoffmann's tales.
February 20, 1993 DER ROSENKAVALIER* LIANG, TOMOWA-SINTOW, ROOTERING, MURPHY, SCHULTE, CASTLE, OLSEN /THIELEMANN commentary after act 3; 1st intermission Owen Lee analyses the opera
February 27, 1993 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA W. MEIER, BECCARIA, NOBLE, WHITE /SANTI no commentary
February 27, 1993 PAGLIACCI ATLANTOV, DANIELS, J. PONS, JOSEPHSON /SANTI no commentary
March 6, 1993 LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST DIMITROVA, MARTINUCCI, FONDARY /BADEA commentary before each act, after acts 2 and 3
March 13, 1993 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE STREIT, BATTLE, HEMM, CARTER, BERBERIAN, MURPHY, LACIURA /RUNNICLES
March 20, 1993 ARIADNE AUF NAXOS* NORMAN, SWENSON, MENTZER, MOSER, STEWART /MARIN SXM commentary before and after the Prologue and the Opera
March 27, 1993 DAS RHEINGOLD* MORRIS, SCHWARZ, WLASCHIHA, LANGRIDGE, GJEVANG, HÖLLE, KOPTCHAK /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature Opera Quiz
April 3, 1993 DIE WALKÜRE* G. JONES, GESSENDORF, LAKES, MORRIS, LUDWIG, SALMINEN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Anthony Tommassini analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 10, 1993 SIEGFRIED* JOHNS, G. JONES, ZEDNIK, MORRIS, GJEVANG, WLASCHIHA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Charles Osborne interviews Gwyneth Jones 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 17, 1993 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG* G. JONES, JOHNS, SALMINEN, HELD, PLETTE, TROYANOS, WLASCHIHA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Opera News Joseph Volpe previews next season and Alfred Hubay talks on the release of the 1944 Walküre broadcast; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
September 27, 1993 PAVAROTTI & DOMINGO 25TH ANNIVERSARY DIE WALKÜRE, ACT I: W. MEIER, DOMINGO, SOTIN/LEVINE - OTELLO, ACT II; PAVAROTTI, ESPERIAN, MILNES /LEVINE - IL TROVATORE, ACT III: DOMINGO, PAVAROTTI, ESPERIAN, CHERNOV, ZAJICK, PLISHKA /LEVINE complete with all commentary
November 13, 1993 STIFFELIO (TV) DOMINGO, SWEET, CHERNOV, PLISHKA /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS, 12/27/93)
December 11, 1993 RUSALKA* BENACKOVA, HEPPNER, TOCZYSKA, MARTIN, KOPTCHAK /FIORE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air - Leon Botstein discusses Dvořák and Rusalka; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 18, 1993 FIDELIO* EVANS, HEPPNER, ROOTERING, HALE, DONATH, SCHADE /MICHAEL complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
December 21, 1993 I LOMBARDI (TV**) FLANIGAN, PAVAROTTI, BECCARIA, RAMEY /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 3/30/94)
December 25, 1993 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA HAMPSON, SWENSON, LOPARDO, DARA, ROOTERING, SHAULIS /RIZZI commentary after both acts
January 1, 1994 LES TROYENS POLLET, EWING, LAKES, CROFT, PLISHKA, WHITE, KAASCH /LEVINE no commentary
January 8, 1994 MADAMA BUTTERFLY SOVIERO, LEECH, DENG, ALLEN, ANTHONY /FULTON closing curtain calls
January 15, 1994 I LOMBARDI* FLANIGAN, PAVAROTTI, BECCARIA, PLISHKA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, From Design to Stage Roundtable (Part 1); 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 22, 1994 ELEKTRA* (& TV**) BEHRENS, VOIGT, FASSBÄNDER, MCINTYRE, KING /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 9/12/94) complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature George Jellinek interviews Birgit Nilsson; Boris Goldovsky analyzes Elektra [repeat from 23 Feb 1952]
January 29, 1994 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* DEVIA, HADLEY, J. PONS, PLISHKA /SANTI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Owen Lee discusses Walt Whitman and opera ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 5, 1994 AIDA* SWEET, SYLVESTER, ZAJICK, J. PONS, PLISHKA /FIORE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, George Jellinek pays tribute to Elisabeth Rethberg, Charles Osborne, Insights on Aida; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission, David Hamilton discusses Great Interpreters of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Met
February 12, 1994 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO MORRIS, MCLAUGHLIN, FLEMING, D. CROFT, BUNNEL, LOUP, CHRISTIN /RUDEL complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: Bridget Paolucci discusses "The Two Figaros"; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 19, 1994 LA FILLE DU REGIMENT BLACKWELL, LOPARDO, ELIAS, PRATICO /MUELLER complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz plus news report at the end on the firing of Kathleen Battle from the production
February 26, 1994 DEATH IN VENICE* ROLFE JOHNSON, ALLEN /ATHERTON complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature: Humphrey Burton discusses the opera with Graham, Rolfe Johnson, Allen and Atherton; intermission Opera Quiz
March 5, 1994 STIFFELIO* DOMINGO, SWEET, CHERNOV, PLISHKA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature: William Weaver discusses the opera; intermission Opera Quiz
March 12, 1994 DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES UPSHAW, DERNESCH, STRATAS, QUIVAR, MURPHY, DE YOUNG /NAGANO complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz; Nimet Habachy on Poulenc and Dialogues of the Carmelites
March 19, 1994 ADRIANA LECOUVREUR* FRENI, LIMA, TOCZYSKA, MILNES /R. ABBADO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Roundtable Discussion: Acting in Opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 26, 1994 LA BOHEME* GHEORGHIU, LEECH, LITHERLAND, ROBERTSON, OSWALD, SHORT /RIZZI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, From Design to the Stage (Part 2), 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 2, 1994 OTELLO* DOMINGO, VANESS, LEIFERKUS, BUNNELL, R. CROFT /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
April 9, 1994 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER MORRIS, BEHRENS, ROOTERING, KÖNIG /MICHÄL complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature, Richard Woitach talks about the sea in music
April 16, 1994 TOSCA* GULEGHINA, PAVAROTTI, MORRIS /BADEA complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Anthony Tommasini: Not a Shabby Little Shocker; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, Assistant Stage Director: Michael Scarola
April 23, 1994 ARIADNE AUF NAXOS* VOIGT, DAHL, STRATAS, SCHMIDT, PREY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission; Joseph Volpe talks with Garrick Utley; Albert Innaurato discusses Ariadne
September 26, 1994 IL TABARRO (TV**) STRATAS, DOMINGO, J. PONS, QUIVAR /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 12/28/94)
September 26, 1994 PAGLIACCI (TV**) PAVAROTTI, STRATAS, J.PONS, CROFT /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 12/28/94)
November 3, 1994 ARABELLA (TV**) TE KANAWA, BRENDEL, MCLAUGHLIN, KUEBLER, DERNESCH, MCINTYRE, DESSAY /THIELEMANN (TELECAST, PBS: 11/1/95)
December 10, 1994 LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK EWING, GALOUZINE, BAKER, KOPTCHAK /CONLON complete with all commentary, pre-curtain feature, and intermission; pre-curtain feature, Terrance McNally's thoughts on Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Joseph Volpe welcomes the Radio audience; intermission Opera Quiz, Assistant Stage Director: Michael Scarola
December 17, 1994 RIGOLETTO J. PONS, JO, VARGAS, KOPTCHAK, WHITE /BADEA complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission: Will Crutchfiled on The Voice (Part 1); David Hamilton discusses the release of the 1958 Otello broadcast; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 21, 1994 MADAMA BUTTERFLY (TV**) MALFITANO, LEECH, WHITE, CROFT, LEFEBVRE /GATTI (TELECAST, PBS: 12/27/95)
December 24, 1994 DON GIOVANNI* MORRIS, SWEET, SCHUMAN, PERRY, HONG, HADLEY, D'ARCANGELO, KOPTCHAK /HAGER complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News on the Air: Holiday Music sung by the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus
December 31, 1994 PETER GRIMES* ROLFE JOHNSON, FLEMING, OPIE, WALKER, HOWARD /CONLON commentary before all three acts and after acts 1 and 2; First Intermission - Opera News on the Air: Charles Osbourne Reminiscences of Benjamin Britten
January 7, 1995 MADAMA BUTTERFLY GORCHAKOVA, WHITE, LEECH, CROFT, LEFEBVRE /GATTI complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 14, 1995 DIE FLEDERMAUS COBURN/GEYER, PREY, BLACKWELL, OLSEN, SCHWARZ, BRENDEL /MICHAEL complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission: Cori Ellison on Trouser Roles; Will Crutchfiled on The Voice (Part 2); 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 21, 1995 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* HADLEY, SWENSON, OSWALD, PLISHKA /MUELLER complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 26, 1995 SIMON BOCCANEGRA (TV**) CHERNOV, TE KANAWA, DOMINGO, LLOYD, POLA /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 4/26/95)
January 28, 1995 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO ALAIMO, UPSHAW, VANESS, D.CROFT, ZIEGLER, LOUP, CHRISTIN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission: Nimet Habachy on The Marriage of Figaro: An Autobiography; Will Crutchfiled on The Voice (Part 3); 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 4, 1995 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA* GULEGHINA, JOHANNSSON, POLA, WHITE /BADEA & PAGLIACCI* MARTINUCCI, DESSI, NUCCI, D.CROFT /BADEA complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 11, 1995 TURANDOT G. JONES, BARTOLINI, SPACAGNA, PLISHKA /SANTI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission: William Weaver on Turandot: The Unanswered Question; John Ardoin on Operas That Show Up in Unlikely Places; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 18, 1995 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA ALLEN, LARMORE, OLSEN, DARA, GHIAUROV, SHAULIS /ATHERTON complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 25, 1995 LA TRAVIATA VILLARROEL, LOPARDO, FRONTALI /FIORE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission: Owen Lee on the Requisite Miracle in La Traviata; Will Crutchfiled on The Voice (Part 4); 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 4, 1995 DER ROSENKAVALIER* VON OTTER, GESSENDORF, HAWLATA, MURPHY, HORNIK, ELIAS, OLSEN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission: Bridget Paolucci - Strauss and Hofmansthal: An Uneasy Collaboration; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 11, 1995 SIMON BOCCANEGRA* CHERNOV, MILLO, DOMINGO, SCANDIUZZI, POLA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission: George Jellinek on Simon Boccanegra: Heartbreaks in Sound; Bridget Paolucci talks with Gail Robinson; 2nd intermission Singers Roundtable with Curtain, Horne, Resnik
March 18, 1995 LA BOHEME FOCILE, LIMA, SOVIERO, FRONTALI, OSWALD, PERRY /FIORE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission: Opera News on the Air - Anthony Tommassini and Dropping Out on the Left Bank; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 25, 1995 IDOMENEO* DOMINGO, UPSHAW, VON OTTER, VANESS, DAVIES /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera Quiz; 2nd intermission George Jellinek remembers Tatiana Troyanos; Terrance McNally on Singers I Never Heard
April 1, 1995 TOSCA* HOLLEQUE, PAVAROTTI, J. PONS /OREN complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission: Martin Bernheimer on 'Music critics and other wild beasts' Albert Innaurato discusses Tosca; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 8, 1995 PELLEAS ET MELISANDE* VON STADE, CROFT, BRAUN, LLOYD, HORNE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: William Livingston reflects on listening to the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts; Richard Woitach on the Orchestral Interludes of Pelléas et Mélisande; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 15, 1995 GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES STRATAS, VASQUEZ, G. QUILICO, GLASSMAN, HORNE, CHRISTIN, HONG, DAHL /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
April 22, 1995 PARSIFAL DOMINGO, G. JONES, LLOYD, BRENDEL, MCINTYRE/ LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Joseph Volpe address the radio audience then Anthony Tommassini analyses Parsifal; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
October 13, 1995 OTELLO* (TV**) DOMINGO, FLEMING, MORRIS, R. CROFT, BUNNELL /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 1/31/96)
December 9, 1995 MAHAGONNY STRATAS, LAKES, DERNESCH, NOBLE, RIEGEL, ROOTERING /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, George Jellinek talks with Leonie Rysanek; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 16, 1995 DIE MEISTERSINGER* WEIKL, MATTILA, HEPPNER, PREY, MAGNUSSON, SVENDEN, ROOTERING /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission a discussion of how Wagner's women die; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 23, 1995 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE VAN DER WALT, RODGERS, OSWALD, WOLF, SOTIN, C. MEYER, LACIURA /SCHNEIDER complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
December 30, 1995 THE QUEEN OF SPADES* GRIGORIAN, GULEGHINA, RYSANEK, HVOROSTOVSKY, PUTILIN, SVENDEN /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, George Jellinek talks with Leonie Rysanek; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 6, 1996 LA BOHEME FRITTOLI, GIORDANI, RACETTE, CROFT, DEL CAMPO, PALATCHI /RIZZI complete with all commentary and intermissions; Announcement of Richard Versalle's death the night before; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: David Hamilton discusses Toscanini's 1946 recording of La Bohème; Bridget Paolucci on the enduring appeal of La Bohème; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 13, 1996 DON GIOVANNI* HAMPSON, JAMES, SCHUMAN, CHEEK, SWENSON, OLSEN, PERRY, BURCHULADZE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 20, 1996 THE MAKROPULOS CASE* NORMAN, PLETTE, G. CLARK, HAGEGARD, MCINTYRE /ROBERTSON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Harlow Robinson discusses The Makropulos Case; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 27, 1996 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA OSWALD, SWENSON, GIMENEZ, DEL CARLO, ALAIMO, SHAULIS /FISCHER complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 3, 1996 FALSTAFF* PLISHKA, DANIELS, G. QUILICO, HORNE, BONNEY, GROVES, LATTIMORE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: Father Owen Lee discusses Falstaff; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

February 10, 1996 OTELLO* DOMINGO, MILLO, MORRIS, FORBIS, BUNNELL /LEVINE complete with all commentary, James Morris 25th Anniversary Presentation and intermission Opera Quiz
February 17, 1996 TURANDOT DIMITROVA, BARTOLINI, GHEORGHIU, KAVRAKOS /SANTI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: John Ardoin on Singers Who Never Sang at the Met; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 24, 1996 COSI FAN TUTTE VANESS, HADLEY, MENTZER, CROFT, BARTOLI, ALLEN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 27, 1996 COSI FAN TUTTE (TV**) VANESS, HADLEY, MENTZER, CROFT, BARTOLI, ALLEN /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 12/30/96)
March 2, 1996 AIDA* RAUTIO, SYLVESTER, ZAJICK, J. PONS, PLISHKA /BADEA commentary before acts 1, 3 and 4, and after acts 3 and 4; fragment of 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Will Crutchfield on tenors
March 9, 1996 MADAMA BUTTERFLY SOVIERO, LEECH, WHITE, J. PONS, FITCH /RUDEL complete with all commentary and intermission, William Weaver hosts a roundtable about how the new Met Titles are created
March 12, 1996 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (TV) SWEET, DOMINGO, CHERNOV, SCANDIUZZI, SCALCHI, POLA /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 9/11/96)
March 16, 1996 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO SWEET, DOMINGO, CHERNOV, SCANDIUZZI, SCALCHI, POLA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: Will Crutchfield on The Art of Singing; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

March 23, 1996 CARMEN GRAVES, MARGISON, VILLARROEL, LEIFERKUS /FIORE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Terrance McNally interviews James Levine (Part 1); 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission George Jellinek talks with Renata Tebaldi, Assistant Stage Director: Michael Scarola

March 30, 1996 SALOME* MALFITANO, WEIKL, RIEGEL, SCHWARZ, BAKER /RUNNICLES complete with all commentary and pre-curtain Opera Quiz, Assistant Stage Director: Michael Scarola
April 6, 1996 THE VOYAGE NOBLE, BURGESS, CREECH, SCHUMAN /DAVIES complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Tim Page talks with Philip Glass and Dennis Russell Davies; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

April 13, 1996 ANDREA CHENIER* PAVAROTTI, MILLO, J. PONS, WHITE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: Martin Bernheimer on Soft Notes; William Weaver discusses political aspects of Andrea Chenier; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Terrance McNally interviews James Levine (Part 2)
April 20, 1996 DIE WALKÜRE SCHNAUT, VOIGT, DOMINGO, HALE, SCHWARZ, MACURDY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Joseph Volpe looks forward to the next season; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 27, 1996 JAMES LEVINE 25TH ANNIVERSARY GALA (TV) VOIGT, CHERNOV, VON STADE, HAMPSON, SCANDIUZZI, FLEMING, LEECH, HONG, HAGEGARD, WHITE, GOERKE, DIMITROVA, FARINA, J. PONS, BENACKOVA, GHEORGHIU, ALAGNA, COTRUBAS, ZAJICK, MORRIS, TERFEL, SWENSON, KRAUS, NORMAN, UPSHAW, HADLEY, MATTILA, MILNES, W. MEIER, OSWALD, PLISHKA, BERGONZI, QUIVAR, ELIAS, ANTHONY, COURTNEY, SWEET, G. JONES, RAMEY, ANDERSON, FURLANETTO, MALFITANO, CROFT, VANESS, MENTZER, BUMBRY, MILLO, EWING, EAGLEN, TE KANAWA, VON OTTER, MURPHY, DOMINGO, ROBBINS, KING, WEIKL, MACURDY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission, Garrick Utley in conversation with James Levine; 2nd intermission, Garrick Utley in conversation with Joseph Volpe
October 15, 1996 ANDREA CHENIER (TV**) PAVAROTTI, GULEGHINA, J. PONS, WHITE /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 4/23/97)
December 14, 1996 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* LEECH, ROST, G. QUILICO, NUCCI /RIZZI complete with all commentary and intermission: Joseph Volpe and Peter Bejur welcome the radio audience; Opera Quiz
December 21, 1996 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM MCNAIR, KOWALSKI, GUSTAFSON, BUNNEL, STREIT, GILFRY /ATHERTON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Harlow Robinson discusses A Midsummer Night’s Dream; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 28, 1996 HANSEL AND GRETEL UPSHAW, LARMORE, ZSCHAU, FALCON, NOBLE /A. DAVIS complete with all commentary and intermission: Peter Allen in conversation with Edward Downes
January 4, 1997 TOSCA* GULEGHINA, LARIN, MORRIS /BADEA complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: George Jellicek on Tosca, Fedora and Sardou; Nimet Habachy on Extraordinary Women; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 11, 1997 LA BOHEME RACETTE, GIORDANI, GEYER, MICHAELS-MOORE, WHELAN, TIAN /SANTI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: Singers’ Round Table – Voigt, Olsen, Hampson ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 18, 1997 LA TRAVIATA ARTETA, LA SCOLA, FRONTALI /BARBACINI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: Will Crutchfied on the Art of Singing: Una voce poco fa; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 25, 1997 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA ZAJICK, F. ARMILIATO, POLA, WHITE /YOUNG; PAGLIACCI BOTHA, SOVIERO, NUCCI, MICHAELS-MOORE /YOUNG complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 1, 1997 I PURITANI* SWENSON, NEILL, HAMPSON, MILES /MUELLER complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, William Weaver on Bellini's Puritans; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 8, 1997 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO* MORRIS, BONNEY, TE KANAWA, BLACK, UPSHAW, PLISHKA, CHRISTIN /HAGER complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: Cori Ellison on Cherubino: Man or Boy?; John Ardoin on Singers Who Never Sang at the Met: Lemnitz, Christoff, Wunderlich; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 15, 1997 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA* PAVAROTTI, VOIGT, J. PONS, SHIN, DEVER /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air: Owen Lee on Wholly Different Reasons; 2nd intermission Pianists Opera Quiz
February 22, 1997 WOZZECK STRUCKMANN, EWING, G. CLARK, BAKER, DEVLIN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and Pre-Curtain Features: Martin Bernheimer remembers Marion Anderson; Robert Marx talks about Wozzeck
March 1, 1997 AIDA SWEET, SYLVESTER, TOCZYSKA, J. PONS, HALFVARSON /FISCHER nearly complete with all commentary and intermissions [missing some closing commentary]; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Bridget Paolucci on Amneris as a tragic Princess; Peter Allen in conversation with Edward Downes; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Will Crutchfield on The Art of Singing
March 8, 1997 BILLY BUDD CROFT, LANGRIDGE, MORRIS, BRAUN, COURTNEY /BEDFORD complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 11, 1997 BILLY BUDD (TV**) CROFT, LANGRIDGE, MORRIS, BRAUN /BEDFORD (TELECAST, PBS: 6/3/98)
March 15, 1997 COSI FAN TUTTE* VANESS, R. CROFT, GRAHAM, GUNN, MCLAUGHLIN, SHIMELL /ISEPP complete with all commentary and intermission: Greg Whiteside talks with NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
March 22, 1997 CARMEN W. MEIER, DOMINGO, GHEORGHIU, LEIFERKUS /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Albert Innaurato on the mystical connection between Bizet's Carmen and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 25, 1997 CARMEN (TV**) W. MEIER, DOMINGO, GHEORGHIU, LEIFERKUS /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 12/29/97)
March 29, 1997 DAS RHEINGOLD MORRIS, SCHWARZ, WLASCHIHA, G. CLARK, SVENDEN, PAPE, S. WEST /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature, Boris Goldovsky gives a musical and dramatic analysis of Das Rheingold (from the broadcast of February 22, 1969), John Culshaw discusses the opera (from the broadcast of February 15, 1975)
April 5, 1997 FAUST* LEECH, FLEMING, RAMEY, CROFT, BUNNELL /RUDEL complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Terrance McNally on Singers I Never Heard: Fyodor Chaliapin; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 12, 1997 DIE WALKÜRE BEHRENS, VOIGT, DOMINGO, MORRIS, SCHWARZ, MACURDY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Leon Botstein gives a musical and dramatic analysis of Die Walküre; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

April 19, 1997 EUGENE ONEGIN* CHERNOV, GORCHAKOVA, FARINA, TARASSOVA, OGNOVENKO /PAPPANO complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
April 26, 1997 FEDORA* (& TV**) FRENI, DOMINGO, CROFT, ARTETA /ABBADO (TELECAST, PBS: 10/29/97) complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Joseph Volpe looks forward to the next season, Peter Allen speaks with Edward Downes; Onstage ceremony honoring Mirella Freni after Act Two, 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
November 3, 1997 LA CENERENTOLA (TV**) BARTOLI, VARGAS, CORBELLI, ALAIMO /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 12/28/98)
December 6, 1997 LA CLEMENZA DI TITO* VANESS, VON OTTER, MURPHY, KIRSCHLAGER, CHEEK /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission: Joseph Volpe and Peter Bejur welcome the radio audience; Opera Quiz
December 13, 1997 TURANDOT SWEET, MARGISON, HONG, KOPTCHAK /SANTI complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st intermission Tribute to Sir Rudolf Bing; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 20, 1997 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA CROFT, GENAUX, FORD, PLISHKA, ALAIMO, SHAULIS /MUELLER complete with all commentary and intermission: Edward Downes shares musical gifts
December 27, 1997 DON CARLO LIMA, MESCHERIAKOVA, HAMPSON, ZAJICK, MORRIS, OGNOVENKO /CHUNG complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Cori Ellison on Eboli as Verdi's prototypical mezzo anti-heroine; George Jellinek on two troubled rulers: King Philip and Boris Godunov; Peter Allen in conversation with Edward Downes; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 3, 1998 BORIS GODUNOV RAMEY, PLUZHNIKOV, PLISHKA, LARIN, BORODINA, LEIFERKUS, OGNOVENKO /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermissions; Opera News on the Air, Harlow Robinson on Marina Mniszech; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 10, 1998 PETER GRIMES* LANGRIDGE, RACETTE, OPIE, CHRISTIN, BLYTHE /ATHERTON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, David Hamilton with a profile of Peter Pears; Britten songs with Anthony Dean Griffey, Steven Tharp and Brian Zeger; 2nd intermission, Students share their experiences with the MOG 's "Creating Original Opera" project
January 17, 1998 THE RAKE'S PROGRESS* HADLEY, UPSHAW, RAMEY, BLYTHE, PITTSINGER /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 24, 1998 LA CENERENTOLA LARMORE, VARGAS, CORBELLI, ALAIMO /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz, Assistant Stage Director: Michael Scarola
January 31, 1998 CAPRICCIO* TE KANAWA, HARRIES, KUEBLER, FITCH, BRENDEL, KEENLYSIDE /A. DAVIS complete with all commentary and intermission interviews with the Chorus
February 7, 1998 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN* LEECH, MORRIS, DESSAY, RACETTE, LARMORE, MENTZER, LEFEBVRE /YOUNG complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Marilyn Horne and Christa Ludwig talk about vocal technique; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 14, 1998 IL TROVATORE MARGISON, ANDERSON, J. PONS, ZAJICK, KAVRAKOS /YOUNG complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 21, 1998 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE* LOPARDO, BONNEY, FINLEY, DUNLEAVY, MOLL, C. MEYER, PETERSEN /DE WAART complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 28, 1998 SAMSON ET DALILA DOMINGO, GRAVES, LEIFERKUS, HELD, HAWLATA /SLATKIN complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Will Crutchfied on The Tenor, Part 1; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 7, 1998 MADAMA BUTTERFLY MALFITANO, FARINA, WHITE, OPIE, LEFEBVRE /RIZZI complete with all commentary and intermission: Librarian of Congress James H. Billington in conversation with Gregg Whiteside
March 14, 1998 L'ELISIR D'AMORE* PAVAROTTI, SWENSON, DE CANDIA, PLISHKA /BENINI complete with all commentary and intermission Singers' Roundtable with Voigt, Polaski, Del Carlo
March 21, 1998 LOHENGRIN* HEPPNER, VOIGT, POLASKI, KETELSEN, HALFVARSON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Father Owen Lee discusses Wagner, Robert Marx talks to Robert Wilson; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 28, 1998 ROMEO ET JULIETTE ALAGNA, GHEORGHIU, LLOYD, JEPSON, BRAUN /DE BILLY complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Will Crutchfield on The Tenor, Part 2; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 4, 1998 STIFFELIO DOMINGO, VILLARROEL, FU, PLISHKA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Nimet Habachy talks about the Po Valley, William Weaver on Stiffelio; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 11, 1998 DIE MEISTERSINGER JOHNSON, JOHANSSON, HEPPNER, WHITE, HENNING-JENSEN, KETELSEN, SOTIN /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Martin Bernheimer: The Case of the Misunderstood Beckmesser; Terrance McNally: Singers I Never Heard - Lauritz Melchior; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 18, 1998 THE MAKROPULOS CASE* MALFITANO, PLETTE, BRUBAKER, NALDI /MACKERRAS complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Garrick Utley in conversation with Joseph Volpe; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
September 28, 1998 SAMSON ET DALILA (TV) BORODINA, DOMINGO, LEIFERKUS, FINK, PAPE /LEVINE commentary after the opera
November 11, 1998 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (TV**) TERFEL, BARTOLI, FLEMING, CROFT, MENTZER, PLISHKA, WHITE /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 12/29/99)
November 22, 1998 PAVAROTTI 30TH ANNIVERSARY GALA (TV) L'ELISIR D'AMORE, ACT II: PAVAROTTI, SWENSON, DE CANDIA, NUCCI /LEVINE - LA BOHEME, ACT III: DESSI, PAVAROTTI, ARTETA, CROFT /LEVINE - AIDA, ACT IV: GULEGHINA, PAVAROTTI, ZAJICK /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 3/31/99)
December 5, 1998 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO TERFEL, BONNEY/GUYER, LOTT, CROFT, MENTZER, WHITE, PLISHKA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Joseph Volpe and Peter Bijur welcome the radio audience; Owen Lee - Mozart: A Man for All Centuries; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 12, 1998 CARMEN URIA-MONZON, WINBERGH, HONG, G. QUILICO /ROBERTSON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News An analysis of Bizet's songs; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 19, 1998 LA TRAVIATA* RACETTE, ALVAREZ, CHERNOV /RIZZI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Bridget Paolucci speaks with Franco Zeffirelli; Terrance McNally: Singers I Never Heard - Claudio Muzio; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 26, 1998 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE GROVES, UPSHAW, GOERNE, AIKIN, SELIG, GONZALES, PETERSON /MACKERRAS complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 2, 1999 DIE FLEDERMAUS VANESS, SKOVHUS, NORBERG-SCHULTZ, SCHADE, KOWALSKI, PATRIARCO /SUMMERS complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Roberta Peters Tribute; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 9, 1999 KATA KABANOVA* MALFITANO, RANDOVA, KARNEUS, STRAKA, BAKER /MACKERRAS complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 16, 1999 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR SWENSON, VARGAS, MICHAELS-MOORE, MILES /RIZZI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Marilyn Horne interviews Dame Joan Sutherland and Will Crutchfied (rebroadcast); 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 23, 1999 WERTHER* HAMPSON, GRAHAM, ROBERTSON, EVANS /RUNNICLES complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, George Jellinek on Werther, Massenet and Battistini, Charlotte: Massenet's Virtuous Heroine by Cori Ellison ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 30, 1999 LA BOHEME GALLARDO-DOMAS, LOPARDO, ARTETA, MICHAELS-MOORE, GUNN, PITTSINGER /M. ARMILIATO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Nimet Habachy "Confessions of an Amateur Chorister", William Livingston pays tribute to Bidú Sayão; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 6, 1999 SIMON BOCCANEGRA* AGACHE, MATTILA, SYLVESTER, SCANDIUZZI, FU /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Gregg Whiteside interviews Branford Marsalis; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 13, 1999 AIDA* PAPIAN, O'NEILL, ZAJICK, BURCHINAL, BURCHULADZE /DOMINGO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, John Ardoin - Singers Never Heard at the Met; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; Robert Marx interviews Graham Vick; David Hamilton and James Levine discuss Moses und Aron
February 20, 1999 MOSES UND ARON* TOMLINSON, LANGRIDGE, WELCH, POLENZANI /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 27, 1999 ELEKTRA* SCHNAUT, VOIGT, SCHWARZ, GLASSMAN, PEDERSON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature Martin Bernheimer discusses Elektra with Metropolitan Opera Orchestra members Julie Landsman, Leslie Dreyer and Michael Parloff; David Hamilton pays tribute to Leonie Rysanek and Hermann Prey
March 6, 1999 IL TROVATORE MARGISON, CRIDER, ZAREMBA, AGACHE, PLISHKA /MÄRKL complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 13, 1999 KHOVANSHCHINA BURCHULADZE, FORBIS, ZAJICK, SCANDIUZZI, BOGACHOV, PUTILIN /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Harlow Robinson gives a musical and dramatic analysis of Khovanshchina; 2nd intermission Singers Roundtable with Eric Halfvarson, Paul Plishka & Samuel Ramey
March 20, 1999* TOSCA VANESS, PAVAROTTI, MORRIS /SANTI omplete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Will Crutchfied on The Soprano, Part 1; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 27, 1999 RIGOLETTO GRUNDHEBER, ROST, VARGAS, HALFVARSON, ARAYA /BENINI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Will Crutchfied on The Soprano, Part 2; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 3, 1999 SUSANNAH* FLEMING, HADLEY, RAMEY, MCVEIGH /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News, American Opera Roundtable with Carlisle Floyd, Jake Heggie and Tobias Picker
April 10, 1999 THE QUEEN OF SPADES* DOMINGO, GORCHAKOVA, SÖDERSTRÖM, HVOROSTOVSKY, PUTILIN, BORODINA /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Steven Blier interviews Elisabeth Söderström; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 15, 1999 THE QUEEN OF SPADES (TV**) DOMINGO, GORCHAKOVA, SOEDERSTRÖM, HVOROSTOVSKY, PUTILIN, BORODINA /GERGIEV (TELECAST, PBS: 9/8/99)
April 17, 1999 GIULIO CESARE* LARMORE, MCNAIR, BLYTHE, DANIELS, ASAWA /NELSON complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Joseph Volpe looks forward to the next season, Thirtieth-anniversary tribute to Plàcido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti by Martin Bernheimer; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 11, 1999 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR* SWENSON, VARGAS, NUCCI, PERTUSI /MUELLER complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission, Opera News, Joseph Volpe welcomes the Radio audience, Then and Now by Father Owen Lee; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 18, 1999 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE* (& TV**) EAGLEN, HEPPNER, DALAYMAN, KETELSEN, PAPE /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 3/21/01) complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Singers' Roundtable with Birgit Nilsson and Eileen Farrell; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 25, 1999 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO D'ARCANGELO, BONNEY, ROOCROFT, SKOVHUS, MENTZER, PLISHKA, ZIEGLER /DE WAART complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Brian Zeger explores the art of Continuo playing; Holiday Music sung by the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus (repeat from December 24, 1994); 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 1, 2000 THE GREAT GATSBY HADLEY, UPSHAW, BAKER, CROFT, GRAHAM, LIEBERSON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 8, 2000 TOSCA VANESS, LEECH, MORRIS /OREN complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News William Livingston: Singers’ Hall of Fame; David Hamilton: How the sound of the broadcasts has changed over the years; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 15, 2000 RIGOLETTO NUCCI, JO, ALVAREZ, HAWLATA, LIVENGOOD /JUROWSKI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Steven Blier on 'Tearful moments in Verdi'; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 22, 2000 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA ZAJICK, F. ARMILIATO, JOSEPHSON, LIVENGOOD /CRAWFORD; PAGLIACCI O'NEILL, VILLARRÖL, J. PONS, CROFT /CRAWFORD complete with all commentary and intermission interview with Bryn Terfel.
January 29, 2000 DER ROSENKAVALIER GRAHAM, FLEMING, HAWLATA, MURPHY, KETELSEN, WHITE, NEILL /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Harlow Robinson on Impreasarios, Ballerinas and Divas, Cori Ellison on The Straussian Mezzo; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 5, 2000 LA TRAVIATA GALLARDO-DOMAS, ARONICA, HAMPSON /R. ABBADO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Owen Lee discusses his favourite artists who are no longer singing, Robert Marx previews the following weeks discussion on Amplification in Opera ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 12, 2000 LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN SHICOFF, SWENSON, FANNING, MENTZER, LEFEBVRE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Robert Marx discusses amplification in Opera with Steven Blier, Ken Benson and Thor Eckert, Jr.; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 19, 2000 MEFISTOFELE* RAMEY, VILLARROEL, MARGISON, VALDES, SHAULIS /ELDER complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Nimet Habachy discusses Eleonora Duse and Arrigo Boito, George Jellinek pays tribute to Fyodor Chaliapin; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 26, 2000 MADAMA BUTTERFLY CRIDER, LARIN, WHITE, SHIMELL, FITCH /RUDEL complete with all commentary and intermission Mario Andretti talks to Gregg Whiteside
March 4, 2000 THE MERRY WIDOW VON STADE, DOMINGO, PULLEY, GROVES, DEL CARLO /A. DAVIS complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 11, 2000 LA CENERENTOLA* LARMORE, GIMENEZ, CORBELLI, ALAIMO /CAMPANELLA complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 18, 2000 LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK MALFITANO, GALOUZINE, BAKER, KOPTCHAK /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 25, 2000 DAS RHEINGOLD MORRIS, SCHWARZ, WLASCHIHA, LANGRIDGE, SVENDEN, HALFVARSON, KOPTCHAK /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature Alan Wagner discusses Jews and Wagner
April 1, 2000 DIE WALKÜRE EAGLEN, VOIGT, DOMINGO, MORRIS, SCHWARZ, HALFVARSON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on Wagner's Scores; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 8, 2000 PELLEAS ET MELISANDE UPSHAW, CROFT, W. WHITE, LLOYD, DENIZE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News, Roundtable discussion - Time, Place and Action: Stage Directors and Opera with Robert Marx, John Ardoin, Cori Ellison and Mark Lamos; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

April 15, 2000 SIEGFRIED ANDERSON, EAGLEN, G. CLARK, MORRIS, SVENDEN, WLASCHIHA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News nominations for Singer's Hall of Fame; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 22, 2000 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG EAGLEN, ANDERSON, HALFVARSON, HELD, RADVANOVSKY, PALMER, WLASCHIHA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Volpe looks back at the season; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
October 14, 2000 DON GIOVANNI (TV**) TERFEL, FLEMING, KRINGELBORN, FURLANETTO, HONG, GROVES, RELYEA, KOPTCHAK /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 12/27/00)
October 28, 2000 FIDELIO (TV**) MATTILA, HEPPNER, PAPE, STRUCKMANN, WELCH-BABIDGE, POLENZANI /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 12/26/02)
December 9, 2000 DER ROSENKAVALIER MENTZER, STUDER, HALFVARSON, NORBERG-SCHULTZ, OPIE, ALVAREZ /KOUT complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, How Strauss uses motifs; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 16, 2000 DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER MORRIS, STEMME, WAGENFUHRER, ROOTERING /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature Opera News Alan Wagner on Wagner the Closet Feminist, Martin Bernheimer pays tribute to Hans Hotter
December 23, 2000 THE MERRY WIDOW VON STADE, HAGEGARD, WELCH-BABIDGE, GROVES, DEL CARLO /FISCH complete with all commentary and intermission The Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus
December 30, 2000 LA TRAVIATA SWENSON, ALVAREZ, CROFT /MARKL complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Opera and Physicians at the Met Opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 6, 2001 FIDELIO MATTILA, HEPPNER, PAPE, LEIFERKUS, HONG, POLENZANI /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 13, 2001 IL TROVATORE SHICOFF, MESCHERIAKOVA, ZAJICK, FRONTALI, KAVRAKOS /RIZZI complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 20, 2001 DOKTOR FAUST HAMPSON, DALAYMAN, BRUBAKER, KUEBLER, ROSE /AUGUIN complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 27, 2001 AIDA VOIGT, PAVAROTTI, BORODINA, DELAVAN, BEZZUBENKOV /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Singers' Roundtable; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz; 3rd intermission Opera News Stephen Blier on 'Educating the Passions'
February 3, 2001 CARMEN BORODINA, LEECH, WATSON, FERRARI /DE BILLY complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st Intermission Opera News Owen Lee on the 'Devil's Motif'; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 10, 2001 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA FARINA, CRIDER, SHIN, AGACHE, ZAREMBA /DOMINGO nearly complete (missing part of the opening) with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission James Levine talks to Luciano Pavarotti; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 17, 2001 L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI LARMORE, POLENZANI, RAMEY, CORBELLI /CAMPANELLA complete with all commentary, Boris Goldovsky Tribute and intermission Opera Quiz
February 24, 2001 COSI FAN TUTTE DIENER, GRAHAM, UPSHAW, GROVES, GILFRY, PERTUSI /SUMMERS complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 3, 2001 MANON SWENSON, SABBATINI, DE CANDIA, PLISHKA /RUDEL complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, David Hamilton discusses how French and Italian Singers approach Manon, Ken Benson pays tribute to Victoria de los Angeles; 2nd intermission, Robert Marx in conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
March 10, 2001 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE SCHADE, HONG, KEENLYSIDE, DUNLEAVY, MOLL /WEIGLE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz, Boris Goldovsky Tribute
March 17, 2001 LA BOHEME GAUCI, LOPARDO, ARTETA, FINLEY, PATRIARCO, BERNSTEIN /CRAWFORD complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Bridget Paolucci previews Nabucco, Alison Howard speaks about the Quiz Kids Educational Program; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 20, 2001 NABUCCO (TV**) PONS, GULEGHINA, RAMEY, HUGHES JONES, WHITE, DESHORTIES /LEVINE (TELECAST, PBS: 6/11/02)
March 24, 2001 NABUCCO J. PONS, GULEGHINA, RAMEY, CASANOVA, TARASSOVA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 31, 2001 THE GAMBLER GALOUZINE, GURYAKOVA, OBRAZTSOVA, SAVOVA, GASSIEV, FANNING, ALEXASHKIN /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
April 7, 2001 PARSIFAL DOMINGO, URMANA, TOMLINSON, KETELSEN, WLASCHIHA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; both intermissions Robert Marks moderates panels on 'How we listen'
April 14, 2001 ARIADNE AUF NAXOS VOIGT, PETROVA, MENTZER, MARGISON, BRENDEL /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
April 21, 2001 LULU SCHÄFER, SCHWARZ, KUEBLER, FORBIS, COURTNEY, MAZURA /LEVINE nearly complete (missing the very end of the broadcast) with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News End of Season interview with Joseph Volpe; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 8, 2001 DIE MEISTERSINGER MORRIS, HEPPNER, MATTILA, ALLEN, PAPE, GROVE, POLENZANI /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Volpe and Tilden welcome the audience then Opera News on Wagner's Real Men and Father Owen Lee on the Wonder of Art ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 15, 2001 ARABELLA FLEMING, BONNEY, KETELSEN, HALFVARSON, VERY, AIKEN /ESCHENBACH complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on Strauss's Songs ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 22, 2001 LA TRAVIATA* ANDERSON, LOPARDO, MICHAELS-MOORE /BENINI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Nimet Habachy on Giuseppina Strepponi, Sarah Bryan Miller previews Die Frau ohne Schatten; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 29, 2001 HANSEL UND GRETEL complete with all commentary and intermission roundtable with Martina Arroyo, Grace Bumbry, Reri Grist, and Shirley Verrett UPSHAW, LARMORE, FORST, BLYTHE, JOSEPHSON /MACKERRAS
January 5, 2002 DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN VOIGT, SCHNAUT, SCHWARZ, MOSER, BRENDEL /THIELEMANN complete with all commentary and intermissions. 1st intermission Opera News Brian Zieger analyses the opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 12, 2002 DON CARLO MARGISON, VILLARROEL, HVOROSTOVSKY, RAMEY, ZAJICK, BURCHULADZE /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News roundtable on great artists in unusual repertiore; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 19, 2002 TOSCA MALFITANO, FARINA, MORRIS /OREN almost complete (missing the first few minutes of the broadcast) with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Steven Blier questions Ken Benson, Robert Marx, Fred Plotkin on their "Guilty Pleasures"; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 26, 2002 IDOMENEO DOMINGO, HONG, VON OTTER, DESHORTIES, OSWALD /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission A conversation with Plácido Domingo and James Levine; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 2, 2002 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA CROFT, SWENSON, FLOREZ, PLISHKA, ALAIMO, WAITE /ABEL complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 9, 2002 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO FURLANETTO, UECKER, ISOKOSKI, MATTEI, K. JEPSON, PLISHKA, WHITE /RUNNICLES complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, David Hamilton previews the Met Historic recording of "The First Texaco Season 1940-41", Harlow Robinson previews Eugene Onegin and War and Peace; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 16, 2002 LA BOHEME GALLARDO-DOMAS, VARGAS, ARTETA, CAPRONI, RELYEA, OSWALD /M. ARMILIATO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News 'The Critic'; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 23, 2002 EUGENE ONEGIN HAMPSON, KRINGELBORN, KARNEUS, GIORDANI, LLOYD /JUROWSKI complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 2, 2002 WAR AND PEACE GRIGORIAN, NETREBKO, HVOROSTOVSKY, RAMEY, GERELLO, LIVENGOOD /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 9, 2002 RIGOLETTO PONS, SWENSON, ALVAREZ, GRAVES, LLOYD /GUIDARINI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Bridget Poulucci on 'Rigoletto a character worthy of Shakespeare' ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 16, 2002 PARADE /LEVINE; LES MAMELLES DE TIRESIAS ARTETA, PATRIARCO, HANCOCK, GREENLAW /LEVINE; L'ENFANT ES LES SORTILEGES DE NIESE, WHITE, PATRIARCO, SWENSON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and Singers' Roundtable, Sarah Billinghurst in conversation with Denyce Graves, Neil Shicoff, and Samuel Ramey
March 23, 2002 LUISA MILLER FRITTOLI, SHICOFF, FRONTALI, GRAVES, TIAN /LEVINE commentary before and after each act
March 30, 2002 MADAMA BUTTERFLY DESSI, F. ARMILIATO, BUNNELL, SHIMELL, FRACKER /M. ARMILIATO
April 6, 2002 FALSTAFF TERFEL, MESCHERIAKOVA, CROFT, BLYTHE, MENTZER, TILLING, TURAY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air - David Hamilton looks ahead to Sly; a conversation with stage director Lillian Groag; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz with High School Students
April 13, 2002 SLY DOMINGO, GULEGHINA, PONS /M. ARMILIATO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Singers' Roundtable, Steven Blier interviews Lili Chookasian, Mignon Dunn and Rosalind Elias; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 20, 2002 LULU SCHÄFER, SCHWARZ, KUEBLER, FORBIS, COURTNEY, MAZURA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Robert Marx in conversation with Joseph Volpe; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 7, 2002 FIDELIO W. MEIER, BOTHA, SALMINEN, HONG, FINK, CLARKE /SCHNEIDER
December 14, 2002 IL TROVATORE CASANOVA, RADVANOVSKY, ZAREMBA, C.ALVAREZ, W. WHITE /CHASLIN complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
December 21, 2002 ELEKTRA SCHNAUT, VOIGT, SCHWARZ, JERUSALEM, PAPE /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature interview about A View from the Bridge
December 28, 2002 A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE MALFITANO, BAYRAKDARIAN, TURAY, JOSEPHSON, BERNSTEIN, DEL CARLO /DAVIES complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 4, 2003 DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES RACETTE, GOERKE, MURPHY, BLYTHE, PALMER, POLENZANI /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 11, 2003 DIE FLEDERMAUS KRINGLEBORN, JOSHUA, LARMORE, KUEBLER, CLARKE, COLEMAN-WRIGHT /JORDAN
January 18, 2003 CARMEN GRAVES, SHICOFF, TEZIER, DUNLEAVY /ABEL complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Singers' Roundtable, Lotfi Mansouri speaks with Grace Bumbry, Marilyn Horne and Regina Resnik; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 25, 2003 JENUFA MATTILA, POLASKI, BEGLEY, VENTRIS /JUROWSKI 1st intermission only Owen Lee on Places in the Heart
February 1, 2003 DIE ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL DESHORTIES, WELCH-BABIDGE, GROVES, BANKS, MOLL /LEVINE
February 8, 2003 IL PIRATA FLEMING, GIORDANI, CROFT, MARTIROSSIAN /CAMPANELLA complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
February 15, 2003 DON GIOVANNI MATTEI, RADVANOVSKY, DIENER, FURLANETTO, NETREBKO, TROST, HALFVARSON /CAMBRELING commentary before and after each act
February 22, 2003 LES TROYENS VOIGT, HUNT LIEBERSON, HEPPNER, CROFT, ZAREMBA, LLOYD /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Cori Ellison on 'A Troyanos Retrospective' ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 1, 2003 TURANDOT DUGGER, MARGISON, AMSELLEM, LLOYD /M. ARMILIATO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Wil Crutchfield on 'Baritones and Bases' ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 8, 2003 LA BOHEME EVSEEVA, VARGAS, ARTETA, GERELLO, BERNSTEIN, PATRIARCO /VIOTTI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, George Jellinek on La Bohème and Arturo Toscanini, Bridget Paolucci discusses Puccini; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 15, 2003 LA TRAVIATA SWENSON, LOPARDO, ATANELI /DE BILLY complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Nimet Habachy & Joanne Woodward discuss the character of Violetta; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 22, 2003 OTELLO GALOUZINE, FRITTOLI, PUTILIN /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 29, 2003 FAUST HADDOCK, PULLEY, MORRIS, PATRIARCO, KARNEUS /DE BILLY complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air - Alan Wagner and the Devil in Gounod's Faust; Owen Lee: What Happens to Faust After Faust; 2nd intermission Conductor's Round Table with James Levine, Valery Gergiev and Julius Rudel
April 5, 2003 NABUCCO ATANELI, NEVES, RAMEY, CASANOVA, WHITE /LEVINE complete with all commentary but no intermission
April 12, 2003 PARSIFAL DOMINGO, URMANA, PAPE, STRUCKMANN, PUTILIN /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Alan Wagner on the theology of Parsifal ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 19, 2003 THE RAKE'S PROGRESS UPSHAW, BLYTHE, GROVES, RAMEY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News on the Air, Robert Marx in conversation with Joseph Volpe
December 13, 2003 LA JUIVE SHICOFF, ISOKOSKI, FUTRAL, CUTLER, FURLANETTO /VIOTTI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Alan Wagner on 'Halévey, Meyerbeer and Grand Opera in Paris' ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 20, 2003 MOSES UND ARON LANGRIDGE, TOMLINSON /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
December 27, 2003 BENVENUTO CELLINI GIORDANI, BAYRAKDARIAN, JEPSON, LLOYD, COLEMAN WRIGHT /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 3, 2004 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA SWENSON, FLOREZ, CROFT, ANTONIOZZI, BURCHULADZE /CAMPANELLA complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 10, 2004 WERTHER ALAGNA, KASAROVA, SCHALDENBRAND, PETROVA /LACOMBE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the songs of Massenet; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 17, 2004 THE MERRY WIDOW GRAHAM, SKOVHUS, GROVES, PULLEY /PETRENKO
January 24, 2004 MADAMA BUTTERFLY VILLARROEL, BERTI, CAPRONI /DOMINGO complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
January 31, 2004 BORIS GODUNOV MORRIS, LEIFERKUS, MISHURA, LARIN, KUEBLER, MATORIN, OGNOVENKO /BYCHKOV complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Harlow Robinson on the Struggle for Russian Opera; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 7, 2004 RIGOLETTO PONS, ROST, LOPARDO, KONSTANTINOV, DOMASHENKO /ARMILIATO complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News George Jellinek Salutes Risë Stevens ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 14, 2004 QUEEN OF SPADES DOMINGO, DALAYMAN, PALMER, CHERNOV, PUTILIN /JUROWSKI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Brian Zeger on Tchaikovsky's Songs; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 21, 2004 LE ROSSIGNOL - OEDIPUS REX BLYTHE, TRIFONOVA, BANKS, FORBIS, NIKITIN /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News with William McCloughlin; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
February 28, 2004 L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI BORODINA, FLOREZ, PATRIARCO, KWIECIEN, FURLANETTO /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Roundtable with Domingo and Gergiev
March 6, 2004 LA TRAVIATA FLEMING, VARGAS, HVOROSTOVSKY /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermissions: 1st Intermission Opera News Beverly Sills talks about the Met Past and Future; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
March 13, 2004 DON GIOVANNI HAMPSON, HARTEROS, GOERKE, PAPE, HONG, TURAY, ANDRAZAKOV, ENS /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
March 20, 2004 DAS RHEINGOLD MORRIS, NAEF, FINK, LANGRIDGE, ZAREMBA, WELCH-BABIDGE, SIEGEL, NIKITIN, KOPTCHAK /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain interview with James Levine
March 27, 2004 SALOME MATTILA, DIADKOVA, JERUSALEM, POLENZANI, DOHMEN /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and pre-curtain feature David Hamilton on the historic release of the 1957 Don Giovanni broadcast
April 3, 2004 DIE WALKÜRE EAGLEN, VOIGT, DOMINGO, MORRIS, NAEF, KOPTCHAK /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Owen Lee talks on 'Wagner and the past hundred years', Cori Ellison talks on 'Those ill-mannered Gods'; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
April 10, 2004 NABUCCO NUCCI, GRUBER, RAMEY, DOMASHENKO, HUGHES JONES /RIZZI complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz followed by a tribute to Jan Peerce
April 17, 2004 SIEGFRIED WEST, EAGLEN, SIEGEL, MORRIS, FINK, ZAREMBA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Owen Lee talks on 'Wagner and the Greeks'; 2nd intermission Panel Discussion on performing Wagner in other languages
April 24, 2004 GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG EAGLEN, WEST, SALMINEN, NAEF, HELD, WRAY /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News Joseph Volpe talks with Robert Marx ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz (this was the last broadcast sponsored by Texaco and also Peter Allen's last broadcast as commentator)
December 11, 2004 I VESPRI SICILIANI RADVANOVSKY, CASANOVA, NUCCI, RAMEY /CHASLIN (This was Margaret Juntwait's first broadcast as commentator) complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz
December 18, 2004 TANNHÄUSER SEIFFFERT, VOIGT, DEYOUNG, HAMPSON, MOLL /ELDER complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News History of the Met's broadcasts; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
December 25, 2004 KATYA KABANOVA MATTILLA, FORST, KOZENA, SILVASTI, MERRITT, VERY, OGNOVENKO /BELOHLAVEK complete with all commentary and intermission Record Collector's Roundtable 'The Joy of Listening'
January 1, 2005 RODELINDA FLEMING, BLYTHE, DANIELS, B. MEHTA, VAN RENSBERG, RELYEA /BICKET complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission A Handel Singers' Roundtable; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz
January 8, 2005 OTELLO HEPPNER, FRITTOLI, BURCHINAL /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz

January 29 2005 TURANDOT GRUBER, BOTHA, STOYANOVA / BILLY complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Gregg Whiteside with Kathleen Kelly on Prompters; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

February 5, 2005 PELLÉAS ET MELISANDE BURDEN, VON OTTER, VAN DAM /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Bill McGlaughlin on how Debussy changed how we look at music, Steven Blier and José van Dam on Debussy songs; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz, includes special online feature: Pelléas et Mélisande by Father Owen Lee

February 12, 2005 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO RELYEA, ROST, KWIECIEN, WATSON, PÉREZ, PLISHKA /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Lisa Simeone in conversation with Martin Scorsese and Howard Shore; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz from The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

February 19, 2005 LA BOHÈME SWENSON, DUVAL, RACETTE, CROFT, GRADUS, PATRIARCO, PLISKHA /OREN complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Bridget Paolucci on "The Voice of the Orchestra", Lisa Simeone with a report from backstage; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

February 26 2005 NABUCCO PUTILIN, GULEGHINA, JONES / LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission, Robert Marx interviews George Tsypin, Opera Quiz

March 5, 2005 SAMSON ET DALILA GRAVES, CURA, LAFONT, LLOYD, COURTNEY /DE BILLY complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Regina Resnik in conversation with Lotfi Mansouri; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

March 12, 2005 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA VASSALLO, KARNÉUS, POLENZANI, CHAUSSON, FURLANETTO /BENINI complete with all commentary and intermission Opera Quiz

March 19, 2005 DON CARLO MARGISON, RADVANOVSKY, CRFOT, URMANA /LUISI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Will Crutchfield on the French and Italian versions of Don Carlo; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

March 26 2005 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA & PAGLIACCI URMANA, VILLA, BURCHINAL, RACETTE, MAC MASTER, PONS, KWIECIEN, STEVENSON /DAVIES complete with all commentary and Opera News on the Air, Conductor's Roundtable, Henry Fogel speaks with James Conlon and Donald Runnicles

April 2, 2005 DER ROSENKAVALIER DENOKE, GRAHAM, AIKIN, ROSE /RUNNICLES complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air Owen Lee "Richard, his Pauline and the alomatic"; 2nd intermission Robert Marks talks to Andre Shurban

April 9, 2005 TOSCA GULEGHINA, LICITRA, DELAVAN /CONLON

April 16, 2005 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE MILNE, POLENZANI, MIKLOSA /LEVINE

April 23, 2005 DIE WALKÜRE SERGEEVA, KIT, DOMINGO, DALAYMAN /GERGIEV complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera Quiz, Robert Marks talks to Andre Serban; 2nd intermission Singers' Roundtable: Sarah Billinghurst interviews Deborah Voigt, Plácido Domingo & René Pape

April 30, 2005 FAUST ALAGNA, ISOKOSKI, PEPE / LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Brian Zeger on the different versions of the Faust legend, Lisa Simeone speaks with Mirella Freni ; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

May 7, 2005 LA CLEMENZA DI TITO LOPARDO, DIENER, VON OTTER /LEVINE complete with all commentary and intermission Opera News on the Air, Robert Marks speaks with Joseph Volpe

December 17, 2005 RIGOLETTO RIGOLETTO NETREBKO, HERRERA, GUELFI, VILLAZÓN, HALFVARSON /FISCHER complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Robert Marx in conversation with Renée Fleming and Joseph Volpe; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

December 24, 2005 AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY RACETTE, GRAHAM, ZAJICK, LARMORE, GUNN, BEGLEY, BURDEN, BERNSTEIN /CONLON complete with all commentary and intermission Roundtable, Sarah Billinghurst speaks with Patricia Racette, Susan Graham, Tobias Picker, and Nathan Gunn

December, 31 2005 WOZZECK DALAYMAN, GROVE, HELD, FORBIS, G. CLARK, W. FINK /LEVINE complete with all commentary and pre-curtain features, Robert Marx speaks with Joseph Volpe, Bill McGlaughlin in discussion with James Levine on Wozzeck, Cori Ellison discusses Sprechstimme

January 7, 2006 L'ELISIR D'AMORE SWENSON, CAMBRIDGE, VARGAS, COLEMAN-WRIGHT /BARBACINI

January 21, 2006 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE DUNLEVY, MIKLÓSA, CUTLER, GUNN, ROBINSON /DANIEL

January 28, 2006 COSÍ FAN TUTTE DESHORTIES, KOŽENA, FOCILE, GROVES, KWIECIEN, ALLEN /LEVINE

February 4 2006 CYRANO DE BERGERAC RADVANOVSKY, BARASORDA, VERY /ARMILIATO

February 11, 2006 LA TRAVIATA GHEORGHIU, KAUFMANN, MICHAELS-MOORE /ARMILIATO

February 18 2006 AÏDA GRUBER, BORODINA, BOTHA, PONS, YOUN / CONLON

February 25 2006 SAMSON ET DALILA BORODINA, FORBIS, LAFONT, YOUN, COURTNEY /VILLAUME

March 4 2006 ROMÉO ET JULIETTE DESSAY, GOELDNER, BUNNELL, VARGAS, DEGOUT, SIGMUNDSSON / DE BILLY complete with all commentary and intermission, Robert Marx speaks with Valery Gergiev and George Tsypin

March 11 2006 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO VOIGT, KOMLÓSI, LICITRA, DELAVAN, RAMEY, PONS /NOSEDA

March 18 2006 MAZEPPA GURYAKOVA, DIADKOVA, PUTILIN, BALASHOV, BURCHULADZE /GERGIEV

March 25 2006 LUISA MILLER SLACK, MISHURA, VILLA, C. ÁLVAREZ, J. MORRIS, S. WEST /BENINI

April 1 2006 FIDELIO SUNNEGARDH, WELCH-BABIDGE, HEPPNER, HELD, SIGMUNDSSON, TURAY, J. MORRIS /NADLER

April 8 2006 MANON MANON FLEMING, GIORDANO, CHAIGNAUD, ROBBINS /LÓPEZ-COBOS complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission, Ayra Gusalenium interviews Peter Gelb; 2nd intermission Singers' Roundtable, Lotfi Manouri interviews Anna Netrebko and Juan Diego Flórez

April 15 2006 DON PASQUALE NETREBKO, S. ALAIMO, FLÓREZ, KWIECIEN /BENINI complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Record Collector's Roundtable; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

April 22 2006 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO ROST, ISOKOSKI, COOTE, RELYEA, MATTEI, MURARO /WIGGLESWORTH

April 29 2006 LOHENGRIN LOHENGRIN MATTILA, DUVOL, HEPPNER, R. P. FINK, PAPE, SCHULTE /AUGUIN complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Steven Blier speaks with Peter Kazaras and Fred Plotkin; 2nd intermission Opera Quiz

May 6, 2006 RODELINDA FLEMING, BLYTHE, SCHOLL, VAN RENSBURG, RELYEA, DUMAUX /SUMMERS complete with all commentary and intermissions; 1st intermission Opera News on the Air, Robert Marx speaks with Joseph Volpe and James Levine; 2nd intermission, Robert Marx speaks with Joseph Volpe

May 20, 2006 GALA CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF JOSEPH VOLPE VOIGT, BORODINA, ABDRAZAKOV, DOMINGO, VON STADE, DESSAY, CROFT, GRAVES, FLEMING, MORRIS, MEIER, HEPPNER, TE KANAWA, GRAHAM, BLYTHE, HAMPSON, RAMEY, ALAGNA, HVOROSTOVSKY, PAPE, ZAJICK, MATTILA, VARGAS, FRENI /GERGIEV, SCHNEIDER, ARMILIATO, SUMMERS, CONLON, DOMINGO complete with all commentary and intermission features paying tribute to Joseph Volpe