Tosca Met's Saturday Matinee Broadcast

Jonas Kaufmann and Patricia Racette.
Photo by Cory Weaver/Metropolitan Opera.

The Metropolitan Opera presents Tosca by Giacomo Puccini as the Saturday matinee on April 24. Classic 99.1 KFUO-FM will carry the broadcast beginning at 12:00 noon (CT). Approximate running time 3 hours, 3 minutes.

From the Met's website:

Patricia Racette sings the title role for the first time at the Met, stepping in for Karita Mattila, who is ill. Luc Bondy's season-opening new production also stars Jonas Kaufmann and Marcello Giordani, who share the role of Cavaradossi, and Bryn Terfel and George Gagnidze, who alternate as Scarpia.

In his April 15 review, "Boos Become Bravos at the Met," in the New York Times, Anthony Tommasini said

Wednesday’s Tosca was one of the most exciting performances of the Met season to date, thanks to three exceptional singers, all performing their roles for the first time at the Met. Patricia Racette, an inexplicably underrated soprano, brought a richly expressive voice and raw emotion to her wrenching portrayal of Tosca. Jonas Kaufmann, currently the hottest tenor in opera, was an impetuous and vocally smoldering Mario Cavaradossi, singing with vulnerable tenderness one moment and burnished power the next. And the bass-baritone Bryn Terfel commandeered the stage with his vocally chilling and shockingly lusty Scarpia.