355) on September 27 at 6pm ET.įire Shut Up in My Bones is a poignant and profound story about a young man's journey to overcome a life of trauma and hardship. SiriusXM subscribers can hear this performance in its entirety on Met Opera Radio (Ch. Blow's moving memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct GRAMMY Award-winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard's adaptation of Charles M. Opening Night will be a historic occasion with the Met's first performance of an opera by a Black composer. Met Opera Radio will proudly present the channel’s archival broadcast premiere of Turandot, with Nilsson in the title role, on May 15 at 12 pm ET May 17 at 6pm ET and May 19 at 9 am ET.Ĭlick here for the full week’s schedule of Nilsson’s centennial celebration and other Met broadcast archives.After the longest shutdown in its history, The Metropolitan Opera is ready to resume live broadcasts on SiriusXM's Met Opera Radio for the 2021-22 season. Her portrayal of the icy princess Turandot - the role she sang a record 52 times with the company - will go down as one of the most electrifying performances of any artist in Met history. The Swedish soprano, who made her debut in 1959 as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, went on to sing more than 200 performances of 16 roles and may be best known for portrayals of commanding heroines of the German canon - from the title characters of Richard Strauss’ Salome and Elektra to Brünnhilde in Wagner’s Die Walküre and Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio.īut when Nilsson turned to the Italian repertoire, as she did on 93 occasions, the results were equally riveting. 75) will present a collection of some of Nilsson’s most memorable Met performances throughout the week, beginning May 14 and running through May 20.

To celebrate the centenary of her birth on May 17, 1918, Metropolitan Opera Radio (Ch. The inimitable Birgit Nilsson was born 100 years ago this month and would go on to portray many of the most dramatic roles of the operatic repertoire.

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