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*SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16*

GMT 0000/EST 7:00PM				GMT 0000/EST 7:00PM
	HPR-2 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA		64K MP3 M			schedule
	0000 7:00PM	Opera: Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts Giuseppe Verdi \| LA TRAVIATA Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Michael Mayer’s richly textured new production, featuring a dazzling 19th-century setting that changes with the seasons. Soprano Diana Damrau plays the tragic heroine, Violetta, and tenor Juan Diego Flórez returns to the Met for the first time since 2015 to sing the role of Alfredo, Violetta’s hapless lover. Baritone Quinn Kelsey is Alfredo’s father, Germont, who destroys their love. Violetta.....Diana Damrau (Soprano) Alfredo Germont.....Juan Diego Florez (Tenor) Giorgio Germont.....Quinn Kelsey (Baritone) Flora Bervoix.....Kristin Chavez (Mezzo-soprano) Annina.....Maria Zifchak (Soprano) Gastone.....Scott Scully (Tenor) Il Barone Douphol.....Dwayne Croft (Baritone) Marquis d'Obigny.....Jeongcheol Cha (Bass) Doctor Grenvil.....Kevin Short (Bass) Giuseppe.....Marco Antonio Jordao (Tenor) Messenger.....Ross Benollel (Baritone) La cena e pronta.....Seth Malkin (Bass) New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus Yannick Nezet-Seguin (Conductor) 11:00PM Singing and Other Sins: No details available yet (5 hrs.)

GMT 0100/EST 8:00PM (Saturday)				GMT 0100/EST 8:00PM (Saturday)
	Classical WNIU Dekalb, Illinois, USA		128K MP3	48K MP3		schedule
	0100 8:00PM	Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts: Giuseppe Verdi \| LA TRAVIATA Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Michael Mayer’s richly textured new production, featuring a dazzling 19th-century setting that changes with the seasons. Soprano Diana Damrau plays the tragic heroine, Violetta, and tenor Juan Diego Flórez returns to the Met for the first time since 2015 to sing the role of Alfredo, Violetta’s hapless lover. Baritone Quinn Kelsey is Alfredo’s father, Germont, who destroys their love. Violetta.....Diana Damrau (Soprano) Alfredo Germont.....Juan Diego Florez (Tenor) Giorgio Germont.....Quinn Kelsey (Baritone) Flora Bervoix.....Kristin Chavez (Mezzo-soprano) Annina.....Maria Zifchak (Soprano) Gastone.....Scott Scully (Tenor) Il Barone Douphol.....Dwayne Croft (Baritone) Marquis d'Obigny.....Jeongcheol Cha (Bass) Doctor Grenvil.....Kevin Short (Bass) Giuseppe.....Marco Antonio Jordao (Tenor) Messenger.....Ross Benollel (Baritone) La cena e pronta.....Seth Malkin (Bass) New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus Yannick Nezet-Seguin (Conductor) (2 hrs.)
	VivaLaVoce (a service of WETA) Washington, DC, USA		128K WMP	128K MP3		schedule
	0100 8:00PM	Opera at Eight: Serse (Xerxes) George Frideric Handel Judith Malafronte [Serse (Xerxes)]\| Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Romilda]\| Lisa Milne (soprano) [Atalanta]\| Susan Bickley [Amastre]\| Brian Asawa [Arsamene]\| David Thomas [Elviro]\| Dean Ely [Ariodate]\| Hanover Band and Chorus\| Nicholas McGegan (conductor) (No duration given)

GMT 0200/EST 9:00PM (Saturday)				GMT 0200/EST 9:00PM (Saturday)
	IPR Classical Iowa City, Iowa, USA		128K MP3			schedule
	0200 9:00PM	Opera: No details available yet (No duration given)
	WKCR New York, New York, USA		96K MP3	44K G2 RP 8		schedule
	0200 9:00PM	Saturday Night at the Opera: No details available yet (4 hrs.)

GMT 0300/EST 10:00PM (Saturday)				GMT 0300/EST 10:00PM (Saturday)
	KBYU Provo, Utah, USA		64K aacPlus [WINAMP] 128K MP3			schedule
	0300 10:00PM	Opera: No details available yet (3 hrs.)

GMT 0400/EST 11:00PM				GMT 0400/EST 11:00PM
	KING Seattle, Washington, USA		96K aac+	96K MP3	48K MP3	schedule
	0400 11:00PM	Opera: No details available yet (No duration given)
	KXPR ClassicalStream Sacramento, California, USA		96K MP3			schedule
	KXPR Music Sacramento, California, USA		96K MP3			schedule
	0400 11:00PM	At the Opera with Sean Bianco: Host Sean Bianco brings you a full-length opera featuring great voices from the past and present followed by “Opera Potpourri.” No details available yet (4 hrs.)

GMT 0500/EST 12:00MIDNIGHT				GMT 0500/EST 12:00MIDNIGHT
	CONCERT FM (Radio New Zealand) Wellington, NEW ZEALAND		64K MP3			schedule
	0500 12:00 MIDNIGHT	Opera on Sunday: No details available yet [source: Radio New Zealand Limited]

GMT 0800/EST 3:00AM				GMT 0800/EST 3:00AM
	ABC CLASSIC FM Sydney, AUSTRALIA		64K aacPlus	96K MP3		schedule
	0800 4:00AM	Sunday Opera with Deborah Cheetham: No details available yet
	VivaLaVoce (a service of WETA) Washington, DC, USA		128K WMP	128K MP3		schedule
	0800 3:00AM	Opera Encore: Tannhäuser Richard Wagner Matti Salminen (bass) [Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen] \| Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Tannhäuser] \| Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Wolfram von Eschenbach] \| William Pell [Walther von der Vogelweide] \| Kurt Rydl [Biterolf] \| Clemens Bieber [Heinrich der Schreiber] \| Oskar Hillebrandt [Reinmar von Zweter] \| Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Elisabeth] \| Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Venus] \| Barbara Bonney (soprano) [Ein Junger Hirt] \| Margaret Stobart [Erster Edelknabe] \| Jeanette Wilson [Zweiter Edelknabe] \| Ingrid Baier [Dritter Edelknabe] \| Karen Shelby [Vierter Edelknabe] \| Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden [Thüringische Ritter, Grafen und Edelleute \| Edelfrauen \| Ältere und jungere Pilger] \| Philharmonia Orchestra \| Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) (No duration given)

GMT 1000/EST 5:00AM				GMT 1000/EST 5:00AM
	RTHK RADIO 4 HONG KONG		54K AAC [OCTOSHAPE]			schedule
	1000 5:00AM	Sunday Opera: No details available yet (3 hrs.)

GMT 1500/EST 10:00AM				GMT 1500/EST 10:00AM
	CESKY ROZHLAS - D-Dur Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC		256K OGG VORBIS 192K WMP 9 128K OGG VORBIS	80K MP3 M 64K WMP 9 48K OGG VORBIS M	32K MP3 M 32K WMP 9 M 22K OGG VORBIS M	schedule
	1500 10:00AM	Opera: No details available yet

GMT 1600/EST 11:00AM				GMT 1600/EST 11:00AM
	BBC RADIO 3 UNITED KINGDOM		96K aac 128K MP3 48K aacPlus [This links to a 320K stream in the U.K. only]			schedule
	DR P2 KLASSISK Copenhagen, DENMARK		320K aac 320K MP3	96K MP73		schedule
	HR2 KULTUR Frankfurt, GERMANY		96K MP3 [WINAMP]	48K WMP 9		schedule
	NRK KLASSISK Oslo, NORWAY		192K MP3 128K aacPlus [WINAMP] If you hear a white noise while playing this stream we suggest you change (at your own risk) the output driver in WINAMP to the directSound Driver. See instructions for this on our Internet Radio for Techies page	96K MP3		schedule
	1600 11:00AM	SPECIAL PROGRAM: Euroradio-Weihnachtstag Alte und neue Weihnachtsmusik - 13 Konzerte der Union Europäischer Rundfunkanstalten Aus München Christina Landshamer, Sopran Ulrike Malotta, Mezzosopran Julian Prégardien, Tenor Andreas Wolf, Bassbariton Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks Kammerorchester Basel Leitung: Howard Arman Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248, Kantanten 1-3 und 6 (Übertragung aus dem Studio 1 des BR) (2 hrs.)
	RADIO CLASSICA Rome, ITALY		128K aacPlus			schedule
	1600 11:00AM	Opera: No details available yet

GMT 1700/EST 12:00NOON				GMT 1700/EST 12:00NOON
	LRT KLASIKA Vilnius, LITHUANIA		128K AAC			schedule
	1700 12:00 NOON	SPECIAL PROGRAM: Pasaulio koncertų salėse. J. Haydno oratoriją „Pasaulio sutvėrimas“ [The Creation] atlieka M. Persson (sopranas), B. Richter (tenoras), P. Mattei (baritonas), A. Bauer (bosas), Verbjė festivalio kamerinis orkestras ir RIAS kamerinis choras. Diriguoja G. Takacs-Nagy. Įrašas iš Verbjė festivalio. (2 hrs.)
	RADIO 4 NETHERLANDS NETHERLANDS		192K MP3	96KMP3		schedule
	1700 12:00 NOON	Ernst Daniël: EErnst Daniël is een programma met passie voor opera en operazangers, gepresenteerd door Ernst Daniël Smid. Elke week staat een operazanger of -diva centraal en daarna hoort u hoogtepunten uit de beroemdste opera's. MUZIEK IN DEZE UITZENDING 1705/12:05PM CALDARA, ANTONIO Bruto a' Romani Stile Galante Aresi, Stefano Foresti, Sergio Pan Classics PC 10389 1713/12:13PM CALDARA, ANTONIO Partenza amorosa Stile Galante Aresi, Stefano Foresti, Sergio Pan Classics PC 10389 1727/12:27PM FAGO, NICOLA Il Faraone Sommerso - Alla Gente A Dio Diletta Il Pomo d'oro Emelyanychev, Maxim Orliński, Jakub Józef Erato 190295633745 1731/12:31PM HEINICHEN, JOHANN DAVID Alma Redemptoris Mater Il Pomo d'oro Emelyanychev, Maxim Orliński, Jakub Józef Erato 0190295634131 1738/12:38PM ZELENKA, JAN DISMAS Gesù Al Calvario, Zwv 62 - Smanie Di Dolci Affetti... + S'Una Sol Lagrima Il Pomo d'oro Emelyanychev, Maxim Orliński, Jakub Józef Erato 0190295634131 1749/12:49PM CIMAROSA, DOMENICO L'impresario in angustie - "Ve' che matta, maledetta!" Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forlì Salvagno, Aldo Torriani, Carlo & Romano, Marco Filippo & Cigna, Paola & Bini, Lavinia & Escobar, Alejandro & Antonini, Camilla & Gallo, Luca BRILLIANT 95746 1753/12:53PM CIMAROSA, DOMENICO L'impresario in angustie - "Senti, senti l'augellino" Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forlì Salvagno, Aldo Torriani, Carlo & Romano, Marco Filippo & Cigna, Paola & Bini, Lavinia & Escobar, Alejandro & Antonini, Camilla & Gallo, Luca BRILLIANT 95746 1800/1:00PM CIMAROSA, DOMENICO L'impresario in angustie - "Vado e giro nei palchetti" Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forlì Salvagno, Aldo Torriani, Carlo & Romano, Marco Filippo & Cigna, Paola & Bini, Lavinia & Escobar, Alejandro & Antonini, Camilla & Gallo, Luca BRILLIANT 95746 1804/1:04PM CIMAROSA, DOMENICO L'impresario in angustie - "Il meglio mio carattere" Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forlì Salvagno, Aldo Torriani, Carlo & Romano, Marco Filippo & Cigna, Paola & Bini, Lavinia & Escobar, Alejandro & Antonini, Camilla & Gallo, Luca BRILLIANT 95746 1809/1:09PM CIMAROSA, DOMENICO L'impresario in angustie - "Anima cruda e cotta" Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forlì Salvagno, Aldo Torriani, Carlo & Romano, Marco Filippo & Cigna, Paola & Bini, Lavinia & Escobar, Alejandro & Antonini, Camilla & Gallo, Luca BRILLIANT 95746 1816/1:16PM CIMAROSA, DOMENICO L'impresario in angustie - "Io son placida e serena" Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forlì Salvagno, Aldo Torriani, Carlo & Romano, Marco Filippo & Cigna, Paola & Bini, Lavinia & Escobar, Alejandro & Antonini, Camilla & Gallo, Luca BRILLIANT 95746 1822/1:22PM CIMAROSA, DOMENICO L'impresario in angustie - "Lo 'mpresario, gioia mia" Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forlì Salvagno, Aldo Torriani, Carlo & Romano, Marco Filippo & Cigna, Paola & Bini, Lavinia & Escobar, Alejandro & Antonini, Camilla & Gallo, Luca BRILLIANT 95746 1827/1:27PM CIMAROSA, DOMENICO L'impresario in angustie - Son donzella si innocente Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forlì Salvagno, Aldo Torriani, Carlo & Romano, Marco Filippo & Cigna, Paola & Bini, Lavinia & Escobar, Alejandro & Antonini, Camilla & Gallo, Luca BRILLIANT 95746 1837/1:37PM MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS Concert voor piano en orkest nr.6, KV.238 in Bes gr.t. - compleet English Chamber Orchestra Perahia, Murray Perahia, Murray [piano] CBS CD 39223 (2 hrs.)
	RADIO CULTURA Sao Paolo, BRAZIL		128K Flash Player			schedule
	1700 12:00 NOON	Teatro de Opera: No details available yet
	WBAI New York, New York, USA		64K OGG VORBIS [WINAMP] M	64 K MP3 [WINAMP] M	24K OGG VORBIS [WINAMP] M 24K MP3 [WINAMP] M	schedule
	1700 12:00 NOON	Through the Opera Glass: No details available yet (3 hrs.)
	YLE KLASSINEN Finnish Radio		256k AAC 192k WMP			schedule
	1700 12:00 NOON	Opera: No details available yet

GMT 1800/EST 1:00PM				GMT 1800/EST 1:00PM
	WWUH Hartford, Connecticut, USA		128K MP3			schedule
	1800 1:00PM	Sunday Afternoon at the Opera: Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes: This is the one and only lyric stagework that Jaromir Weinberger (1896-1967) is known for. He composed many other things, including film scores in later life. Weinberger died in a rest home in Florida of an overdose of sedatives: presumably a suicide. Weinberger's talents peaked too early in his career. He was only thirty one when Schwanda premiered in Prague, the Czech national capital, in 1927. It was a tremendous success; its libretto was translated into seventeen other languages. Czech was the original language, but the opera is known to the world at large in its German language version as Schwanda Dudelsackpfeiffer. Schwanda is emphatically a Czech folk opera. The story is based on an old Bohemian legend, with elements of the grotesque and burlesque, magic and fairy tale romance. And wouldn't you know that in that very musically inclined Central European national culture a musician would be the hero of the piece! Schwanda is a Bohemian peasant and a damned good bagpipe player. The legendary highwayman Babinsky tempts the hero to leave his native village and his wife Dorotka. Schwanda has a series of adventures in foreign parts. In the end he must bargain with the Devil for possession of his soul. Schwanda cheats the Devil at cards and is released from Hell to return to his beloved Dorotka. Schwanda in its German version was recorded for the German CBS Masterworks label in 1979. The recording originated as a radio broadcast from the studios of Bavarian Radio Munich. The world premiere recording of Schwanda was first issued on LPs in 1981. I presented the LP release way back on Sunday, August 11, 1985. This Sunday you get to hear the folk opera again in compact disc reissue. Heinz Wallberg directs the Munich Radio Orchestra. The distinguished baritone Hermann Prey is heard as Schwanda. His wife Dorotka is soprano Lucia Popp. The robber Babinsky is tenor Siegfried Jerusalem and bass Siegmund Nimsgern takes the role of the Devil. Also heard in singing capacity is the Bavarian Radio Chorus. (3 hrs., 30 min.)

GMT 1900/EST 2:00PM				GMT 1900/EST 2:00PM
	FRANCE MUSIQUE Paris, FRANCE		128K MP3 [WINAMP]			schedule
	1900 2:00PM	Dimanche à l'Opéra: No details available yet
	RADIO BEETHOVEN Santiago, CHILE		48K AAC Due to limited bandwidth, server is often busy			schedule
	1900 2:00PM	La Opera: No details available yet (3 hrs.)
	RADIO ROMÂNIA MUZICAL Bucharest, ROMANIA		256K MP3 128K MP3	128K WMP 9 64K WMP 9	128K+ AAC 64K+ AAC	schedule
	1900 2:00PM	Opera în interpretări de referinţă: Realizator Irina Cristina Vasilescu. Din Stagiunea Euroradio (Opera Lirică din Chicago, 27 ianuarie 2018 la. Giacomo Puccini - "Turandot" cu: Amber Wagner, Andrea Silvestrelli, Stefano La Colla, Maria Agresta, Geoffrey Agpalo, Zachary Nelson, Rodell Rosel, Keith Jameson, Corul şi Orchestra Operei Lirice din Chicago, dirijor Sir Andrew Davis. (3 hrs.)
	WDR3 Cologne, GERMANY		320K MP3 [WINAMP]	256K AAC	128K MP3	schedule
	1904 2:04PM	Opera: Fin de partie Szenen, Monologe, Oper in einem Akt von György Kurtág Hamm: Frode Olsen, Bass Clov: Leigh Melrose, Bariton Nell: Hilary Summers, Alt Nagg: Leonardo Corellazzi, Tenor Orchester der Mailänder Scala, Leitung: Markus Stenz Aufnahme aus der Mailänder Scala (2 hrs., 56 min.)

GMT 2000/EST 3:00PM				GMT 2000/EST 3:00PM
	WWFM Trenton, New Jersey, USA		128K AAC Plus	128K MP3		schedule
	2000 3:00PM	The WWFM Sunday Opera: No details available yet (3 hrs., 30 min.)

GMT 2100/EST 4:00PM				GMT 2100/EST 4:00PM
	KUAC Fairbanks, Alaska, USA		24K Flash			schedule
	2100 4:00PM	Opera: Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts Giuseppe Verdi \| LA TRAVIATA Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Michael Mayer’s richly textured new production, featuring a dazzling 19th-century setting that changes with the seasons. Soprano Diana Damrau plays the tragic heroine, Violetta, and tenor Juan Diego Flórez returns to the Met for the first time since 2015 to sing the role of Alfredo, Violetta’s hapless lover. Baritone Quinn Kelsey is Alfredo’s father, Germont, who destroys their love. Violetta.....Diana Damrau (Soprano) Alfredo Germont.....Juan Diego Florez (Tenor) Giorgio Germont.....Quinn Kelsey (Baritone) Flora Bervoix.....Kristin Chavez (Mezzo-soprano) Annina.....Maria Zifchak (Soprano) Gastone.....Scott Scully (Tenor) Il Barone Douphol.....Dwayne Croft (Baritone) Marquis d'Obigny.....Jeongcheol Cha (Bass) Doctor Grenvil.....Kevin Short (Bass) Giuseppe.....Marco Antonio Jordao (Tenor) Messenger.....Ross Benollel (Baritone) La cena e pronta.....Seth Malkin (Bass) New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus Yannick Nezet-Seguin (Conductor) (3 hrs., 30 min.)

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