These performances, culled from 75 years of Met radio broadcasts, have all been restored and remastered for the new channel. In addition, the channel will air approximately 45 archival performances each month. The full schedule of live broadcasts through the end of October is listed below. “I thought, How does she do this? She was so good at understanding that I had to get my sea legs in being able to improvise on the radio.Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Metropolitan Opera Radio on Sirius Channel 85 will offer up to four live Met performances each week and is commercial-free. The script “would say, ‘Debbie improvises for 30 seconds,’ and I would absolutely freeze,” Ms. Juntwait had a knack for putting her at ease when they recorded promotional spots. “There is a hard-core group of opera lovers who listen religiously, if not avidly, to the SiriusXM station all the time.” He added, “She has been their guide and companion to the Met - people who wake up with her, who go to sleep with her.” “She became even more identified as the voice of the Met” after the merger, the Met’s general manager, Peter Gelb, said Wednesday. Her last broadcast, on SiriusXM, was the premiere of Lehar’s “The Merry Widow” on Dec. She presided over 898 broadcasts on the Met’s satellite-radio channel, originally Sirius and now SiriusXM, according to the Met. When the Met expanded to satellite radio in 2006, it hired her as its full-time announcer. Juntwait’s first Saturday afternoon broadcast was a performance of Verdi’s “I Vespri Siciliani.” In all, she was the host for 229 Saturday radio broadcasts. Allen, was in the broadcast booth the next day, beginning a 28-year run. The first, Milton Cross, had presided over the microphone grandiloquently for 45 years, starting with a performance of Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” on Christmas Day in 1931. The Met came calling in the early 2000s, and in 2004 she became the Met’s third radio host. Soon she was a producer on “Around New York” before moving into on-air roles, as host of “Afternoon Music” and then of “Evening Music.” Katz said she wrote a fan letter to John Schaefer, a host on WNYC-FM, and he hired her as a part-time assistant.

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