All times given below are Eastern Standard Time. If you wish to see the times in your own timezone as well as links to the stations and composers see http://members.home.net/alsmusic/music.html Opera - CBC Radio 2, La Chaine, BBC Radio 3 and WNED broadcast Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow in English on the Met, Saturday at 13:30. On Monday at 17:30 Antena2 has Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne. On Tuesday at 14:30 BBC Radio 3 has Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe. On Wednesday, starting at 20:00, WNED has a tape of Mozart's Don Giovanni in an October Met performance. On Thursday BBC/3 has the third act of Wagner's Die Walkure at sometime after 14:30. Also that day, Antena2 has Richard Wagner's Gotterdaemerung starting at 15:50. Holiday Music - on Sunday WNED has a live Festival of Carols from King's College Cambridge starting at 10:00. At 14:05 CBC/2 has Bach's Christmas Oratorio; at 15:00 WNED has more than six hours hours of holiday music starting with the Cleveland Orchestra followed by the Philadelphia singers and finishing with a repeat of the Festival of Carols. On Monday at 8:00 BBC/3 music illustrating the Christmas story, from Temple Church, London; at 14:30 they have Handel's Messiah. A half-hour later WNED also has the Messiah; at 20:00 La Chaine has another Messiah. On Tuesday WNED at 20:00 WNED has Bach's Christmas Oratorio. On Wednesday BBC/3 has a reconstruction of Bach's St Mark Passion starting at 14:30. Also on 14:30 on Friday BBC/3 has Bach's St.John Passion. Other - lots of Tchaikovsky: Each morning at 4:00 Monday to Friday BBC/3 will have an hour on his music while at 13:00 CBC/2 will have two hours. Regards ...Alex Soteros [log in to unmask]