Operas from the finest stages around the world
From Milan to New York, Barcelona to Chicago, WFMT gives you a front-row seat to performances from some of the world’s greatest opera companies and performers.
Scheduled broadcasts for 2023
Vienna State Opera (Austria)
JUNE 17 Fidelio / Beethoven
JUNE 24 Salome / Strauss
Opéra de Paris (France)
JULY 1 Nixon in China / Adams
Opera Rara (UK)
JULY 8 il Proscritto / Mercadante
Munich Radio Opera (Germany)
JULY 15 I Lombardi / Verdi
Royal Opera House (UK)
JULY 22 Wozzeck / Berg
La Scala (Italy)
JULY 29 Li zite ‘ngalera / Vinci
Budapest Festival Orchestra (Hungary)
AUGUST 5 Turn of the Screw / Britten
Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Belgium)
AUGUST 12 La sonnambula / Bellini
Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain)
AUGUST 19 Manon / Massenet
AUGUST 26 L’Incoronazione di Poppea / Monteverdi
National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)
SEPTEMBER 2 William Tell / Rossini
SEPTEMBER 9 The Ballad of the Canal / YIN Qing
SEPTEMBER 16 Otello / Verdi
SEPTEMBER 23 Tannhäuser / Wagner
Aix-en-Provence Festival (France)
SEPTEMBER 30 Picture a Day Like This / George Benjamin
Music of the Baroque (Chicago)
OCTOBER 7 Jephtha / Handel
Opera Festival of Chicago (Chicago)
OCTOBER 14 Assassinio nella cattedrale / Pizzetti
OCTOBER 21 Attila / Verdi
Opera Southwest (New Mexico)
OCTOBER 28 Le comte Ory / Rossini
NOVEMBER 4 Zorro / Héctor Armienta
Bayreuth Festival (Germany)
NOVEMBER 11 Der fliegende Holländer / Wagner
Haymarket Opera (Chicago)
NOVEMBER 18 Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra / Hasse
LA Opera (Los Angeles)
NOVEMBER 25 Pelléas et Mélisande / Debussy
DECEMBER 2 Omar / Rhiannon Giddens & Michael Abels