Met Opera: Don Giovanni broadcast
The Met’s April 11 radio broadcast featured Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Janai Brugger in the cast and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting — it was Nézet-Séguin’s first Mozart opera with the company. (interlochenpublicradio.org) The Met’s Saturday matinee broadcast series is continuing to spotlight this production in its 2025–26 season schedule. (wqxr.org)
The Metropolitan Opera’s April 11 radio broadcast put Mozart’s *Don Giovanni* back on the air with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting a September 24, 2025 performance. (metopera.org) The broadcast drew from the Met’s 2025–26 run of *Don Giovanni*, which opened September 24, 2025 and ran through November 22, 2025 at the opera house in New York. The Met lists the work at 3 hours and 20 minutes, sung in Italian with title translations in English, German, Spanish, and Italian. (metopera.org) For the September 24 cast used in the broadcast, Ryan Speedo Green sang Don Giovanni, Federica Lombardi sang Donna Anna, Adam Plachetka sang Leporello, and Janai Brugger sang Donna Elvira. Ben Bliss, Hera Hyesang Park, William Guanbo Su, and Adam Palka rounded out the principal cast. (metopera.org) Nézet-Séguin’s appearance on the podium carried extra weight because the Met identified this staging as his first Mozart opera with the company. WQXR and Interlochen Public Radio both billed the April 11 program as part of the Met’s Saturday matinee broadcast season. (wqxr.org) (interlochenpublicradio.org) The Saturday matinee series is one of the Met’s oldest public-facing traditions. WQXR says the broadcasts began on December 25, 1931 and are now the longest-running classical music series in American broadcast history. (wqxr.org) This season’s schedule shows how the company mixes current performances with archival ones. The April 11 *Don Giovanni* came from fall 2025, while the April 4 slot featured Ponchielli’s *La Gioconda* from March 2, 1968, and April 18 is set for Saariaho’s *Innocence* as a network broadcast premiere. (wqxr.org) The Met also makes the broadcasts available beyond terrestrial radio. Its radio page says listeners can hear Saturday matinees and select weeknight performances through free live audio streams on the company’s website. (metopera.org) So the April 11 program was more than a single afternoon relay: it carried a recent Met cast, a first Mozart assignment for its music director, and a broadcast franchise that has been on American airwaves since 1931. (metopera.org) (wqxr.org)
