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KUSF Saturday at the Opera

Tune in to KUSF on Saturday mornings for the best in opera broadcasts, including the renowned Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Bayreuth Festival, and more.

Spring 2009 Saturday Opera Schedule

Live from New York - THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
April 4, 2009 L’Elisir d’amore (Donizetti) 10:00 am
April 11, 2009 Die Walküre (Wagner) 9:00 am
April 18, 2009 Siegfried (Wagner) 9:00 am
April 25, 2009 Götterdämmerung (Wagner) 9:30 am
 
OPERA SPECIAL
May 2, 2009 Angela Gheorghiu is Madam Butterfly -
The Making of a Master Disk
10:00 am
 
The Bucksbaum Family LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Broadcasts
May 9, 2009 Manon (Massenet) 10:00 am
May 16, 2009 Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni)
& I pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
10:00 am
May 23, 2009 Lulu (Berg) 10:00 am
May 30, 2009 The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart) 10:00 am
June 6, 2009 Madama Butterfly (Puccini) 10:00 am
June 13, 2009 Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) 10:00 am
June 20, 2009 The Pearl Fishers (Bizet) 10:00 am
June 27, 2009 Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) 10:00 am

Underwriting Opera and Classical Broadcasts

KUSF is looking for a few angels to help underwrite local live broadcasts from the Met and our other series from the world's great opera houses, as well as our diverse and creative alternative classical programming. If you or your business would like to help make local broadcasts of the MET possible while receiving on-air underwriting credit at a cost far below that of advertising commercial radio, contact KUSF’s fundraising coordinator at (415) 386-5873.

The Metropolitan Opera on KUSF

KUSF is proud to have been chosen by New York’s Metropolitan Opera as their FM radio broadcast home in San Francisco. Perhaps the most prestigious series in the history of broadcasting, the Met broadcasts are being heard live on radio for the 77th consecutive year.

Resources from the Met

The Metropolitan Opera Guild Education site

This site provides:

  •  Information on the individual operas
  •  A Teacher’s Guide to help students learn about the operas
  •  Links to other opera-related websites
  •  MET broadcast information

The Metropolitan Opera’s site

Contents of Met broadcasts (including simultaneous webstream) on KUSF are copyright of the Metropolitan Opera; all rights reserved and any use or reproduction of any of the material therein without permission of The Met is strictly prohibited and will be prosecuted.

World of Opera, from NPR, airs on KUSF Sunday mornings from 8:30 am to noon. Important schedule note: KUSF broadcasts World of Opera six days after the dates listed in the schedule on NPR’s website.

 
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