Any other opera listeners here? I particularly like their Saturday Matinee broadcasts when I have the time. Here is a link to support same. http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/support/broadcast/make_gift.aspx

The new broadcast season starts on Dec 9, if you are fortunate to have an FM station that carries it.

Giving my daughter a ticket to the Feb 3 matinee performance of 'La Boheme' for Xmas. Of course, I'll be sitting in the seat next to her.:music:

I freely admit that I have zero real knowledge of opera, I'm sorry to say. 80% of all my music's been in the pop and rock and classical areas. That said, I have indeed listened to a few operas in my day and find that I enjoy Wagner very much. Tannhäuser is so far my favorite.
So far I cannot yet find out if the station that always carried Met broadcasts in the past will carry them again this year.
Tom

If interested in learning more (as I am) you can google any famous name in opera that you can think of (Sills, Sutherland, Pavarotti, Tebaldi, Price, L'elisir D' Amore, La Traviata, Donizetti, Verdi, etc.) and open the wikapedia link. There will be good info on the person, opera, composer, etc. Then can follow the high-lighted links all around to learn more at your heart's content. Tis amazing just how much info, controversy and, above all, great music there is in opera.

We frequently get a link with the Met on Radio 3 in the UK. We can get FM, DAB ( digital broadcast) or internet, but obviously FM is the way to go for sound quality.

Ray