The WFMT Radio Network is proud to make the American Opera Series available to our affiliates. The American Opera Series is designed to complement the Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, filling in the schedule to complete the year. This year the WFMT Radio Network Opera Series 2019 Featuring performances from Royal Opera, Rossini Opera Festival, La Scala, Teatro dell’Opera, LA Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, OperaDelaware, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Opera Southwest. We hope you'll join us.

Royal Opera House (Presented in partnership with the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union)
May 18 - Falstaff / Verdi / Royal Opera
May 25 - Das Rheingold / Wagner / Royal Opera
June 1 - Die Walküre / Wagner / Royal Opera
June 8 - Siegfried / Wagner / Royal Opera
June 15 - Simon Boccanegra / Verdi / Royal Opera
June 22 - The Queen of Spades / Tchaikovsky / Royal Opera
June 29 - La forza del destino / Verdi / Royal Opera
July 6 - Billy Budd / Britten / Royal Opera
July 13 - Andrea Chénier / Giordano / Royal Opera

Operas from RAI, Italy (Presented in partnership with Rai and the European Broadcasting Union)
July 20 - Adina / Rossini / Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro)
July 27 - Orfeo et Euridice / Gluck / Teatro dell’Opera (Rome)
August 3 - Attila / Verdi / La Scala (Milan)

Lyric Opera of Chicago
August 10 - Norma / Bellini
August 17 - The Magic Flute / Mozart
August 24 - Lucia di Lammermoor / Donizetti
August 31 - Don Quichotte / Massenet
September 7 - Eugene Onegin / Tchaikovsky
September 14 - Les Troyens / Berlioz

LA Opera
September 21 - Don Carlo / Verdi
September 28 - The Clemency of Titus / Mozart
October 5 - Macbeth / Verdi
October 12 - Tales of Hoffmann / Offenbach
October 19 - Carmen / Bizet

OperaDelaware
October 26 - Il Tabarro; Suor Angelica / Puccini
November 2 - Gianni Schicchi; Buoso’s Ghost / Puccini; Ching
November 9 - Amleto / Faccio

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
November 16 - Marriage of Figaro / Mozart

Opera Southwest
November 23 - Norma / Bellini
November 30 - Ali Baba (1871) / Bottesin