Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009 - B

Also at GMT 1700/EDT 1:00PM:

• WFMT Opera Series - Mozart's Idomeneo, with Kurt Streit, Alice Coote, Genia Kühmeier, Iano Tamar, and Donald Runnicles conducting (this is rebroadcast at GMT 1730/EDT 1:30PM over KAMU, at GMT 1800/EDT 2:00PM over WOMR and at GMT 1900/EDT 3:00PM over KBAQ/KUAT).
• Sveriges Radio P2 - At GMT 1715/EDT 1:15PM, from this summer's Bayreuth Festival, Wagner's Meistersinger, featuring Klaus Florian Vogt as the challenger Walther von Stolzing.
• Radio Oesterreich International - At GMT 1730/EDT 1:30PM, catch an historic 1974 broadcast from New York: Verdi's Vespri Siciliani, with Montserrat Caballe, Nicolai Gedda, Sherrill Milnes and Justino Diaz, James Levine conducting.
• NPR World of Opera - Janacek's Jenufa, conducted by Jiri Belohlavek.
• Bayern 4 Klassik, MDR Figaro, NDR Kultur, RBB Kulturradio & WDR3 - Starting at GMT 1800/EDT 2:00PM, Verdi's La Traviata, with Patrizia Ciofi, Vittorio Grigolo and Marzio Giossi, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.
• Radio Tre - At GMT 1830/EDT 2:30 PM, Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, with Fiorenza Cedolins, Sonia Ganassi and José Bros, conducted by Fabrizio Maria Carminati.

These are just a few of the special offerings, but you are invited to visit our Saturday page and see the entire lineup and maybe spot a surprise or two overlooked here.

Happy listening!