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Classical

WUOT offers many hours of classical music to listeners, including the Morning Concertand Afternoon Concert on weekdays, Early Morning Concert on weekend mornings, Classical 24(overnight music), recorded broadcasts of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, recorded performances from the UT School of Music on UT Concert Hall, and syndicated symphony orchestra broadcasts Monday through Wednesday at 8 p.m. and Thursday night at 9.

Opera broadcasts (listings below) are heard on Saturday afternoons at 1. The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts December-May, then, from mid-May thru mid-July, it's opera performances from across the globe courtesy of the WFMT Opera Series.  The 2020 WFMT Opera Series schedule is below (and subject to change).  

(Note: opera offerings subject to change.)

Operas from the European Broadcasting Union

May 16 - Alceste - Christoph Willibald Gluck - Bavarian State Opera

May 23 - Tales of Hoffman - Jacques Offenbach - Vienna State Opera

May 30 - Elektra - Richard Strauss - Vienna State Opera

Lyric Opera of Chicago

June 6 - Cosi fan tutte - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

June 13 - Turandot - Giacomo Puccini

June 20 - Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi

June 27 - The Pearl Fishers - Georges Bizet

July 4 - Die Walkure - Richard Wagner

July 11 - Faust - Charles Gounod

July 18 - Orphee et Eurydice - Christoph Willibald Gluck

July 25 - I puritani - Vincenzo Bellini

LA Opera on Air!

August 1 - Carmen - Georges Bizet

August 8 - The Clemency of Titus - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

August 15 - La Boheme - Giacomo Puccini 

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

August 22 - Aida - Giuseppe Verdi

Royal Danish Opera

August 29 - L'Orfeo - Claudio Monteverdi

Royal Opera House

September 5 - Fidelio - Ludwig van Beethoven

Opera Southwest

September 12 - Bless Me, Ultima - Hector Armienta

September 19 - Lohengrin - Richard Wagner

Royal Opera House

September 26 - Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

October 3 - Death in Venice - Benjamin Britten

October 10 - Don Pasquale - Gaetano Donizetti

October 17 - Werther - Jules Massenet

October 24 - Agrippina - Georg Frideric Handel

Hamburg State Opera

October 31 - Norma - Vincenzo Bellini

Opera Delaware

November 7 - Scalia/Ginsberg and Trial By Jury - Derrick Wang and Arthur Sullivan

La Scala/Milan

November 14 - Tosca - Giacomo Puccini

November 21 - Il Turco in Italia - Giaochino Rossini

Liceu Opera Barcelona

November 28 - Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci - Pietro Mascagni and Ruggero Leoncavallo