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Metropolitan Opera: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro

Airs Saturday, March 26, at 12 noon. The 2015-16 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a live broadcast of Mozart’s LeNozzediFigaro– The Marriage ofFigaro. Met Principal Conductor FabioLuisileads a cast that includes three artists who are singing their roles at the Met for the first time this season: MikhailPetrenkoasFigaro; AnitaHartigas hisfiancée, the clever maid Susanna; and LucaPisaronias their employer, the lecherous CountAlmaviva. AmandaMajeskiportrays the long-suffering Countess, a role she sang for her Met debut when this production premiered last season, and Isabel Leonard reprises her acclaimed interpretation ofCherubino, the feisty page. LeNozzediFigarowill be heard live over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12:00 p.m. CT on Saturday, March 26.

Amanda Majeski as Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
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Amanda Majeski as Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro

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Bill became Program Director for Red River Radio in January 2010. He is an honors graduate from Bowling Green State University in Ohio where he was also inducted into the Golden Key National Honor Society. He began his professional career in 1985 as Traffic Manager and Recording Engineer for WGTE-FM in Toledo Ohio, where he later served as Operations Manager. While in Ohio he taught beginning and advanced multi-track recording studio techniques at his Alma Mater, Bowling Green State University. In 1990 Bill accepted the position as Program Director for WUFT-FM in Gainesville Florida, serving there for 19 years. He is a seasoned radio producer of both music and documentaries programs and has been honored with numerous awards over his career from the Ohio Educational Broadcasters, the Florida Associated Press, the National Association of Community Broadcasters, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Council on Contemporary Families, and The Radio and Television News Directors Association. In 2000 he was a co-recipient National Edward R. Murrow Award: Best Documentary for the program Apalachicola Doin’ Time, along with co-producer Donna Green-Townsend and student associate producers Daniel Beasley and Joshua Azriel. He was co-recipient of a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for the documentaries Ground Water Garrison (2003) and The Long Road (2007).