Airs Saturday, March 25, 2017, at 12 noon. Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts his third broadcast of the 2016-17 Metropolitan Radio Broadcast season, Mozart’s early masterpiece Idomeneo. The opera, which Levine first conducted at the Met in 1982, stars tenor Matthew Polenzani in his Met role debut as the king Idomeneo, with soprano Nadine Sierra in her role debut as Ilia, soprano Elza van den Heever as Elettra, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote as Idomeneo’s son Idamante, and baritone Alan Opie as Idomeneo’s confidant Arbace. Idomeneo will be heard live over the Toll Brothers- Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12:00 p.m. CT on Saturday, March 25.
The Metropolitan Opera: Mozart’s Idomeneo
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A scene from Mozart's Idomeneo
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Nadine Sierra as Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo
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Matthew Polenzani in the title role of Mozart's Idomeneo
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Elza van den Heever as Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo
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