WRKF Classical

Enjoy 24 hours a day of music that has endured through the ages on WRKF Classical 89.3 HD2.

WRKF Classical is available exclusively on HD Radio, online, and on your smart speaker. Tune your HD Radio to 89.3 HD2— a digital sub-channel available on your HD Radio in the greater Baton Rouge area. To stream the channel at wrkf.org on your computer, click the "All Streams" button at the top of the page and select WRKF Classical. On your mobile device, click the waveform icon at the right of the green playback bar on the bottom of your screen, then select WRKF Classical. On the WRKF App, tap "Classical" near the top of the screen. Ask your smart speaker to play "WRKF HD2."

Classical Playlists
Check below to search playlist information to learn more about the music you hear on WRKF Classical.

Schedule
Find the WRKF Classical schedule here.

Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts
Tune in beginning Saturday, December 7, for the 2024-25 Saturday matinee radio broadcast season of the Metropolitan Opera on WRKF Classical. Details below.

THE ROBERT K. JOHNSON FOUNDATION–METROPOLITAN OPERA
INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK
2024-25 Saturday Matinee Broadcast Season
All broadcasts at 12 noon central time **except as otherwise noted.

December 7, 2024: Strauss's Die Frau Ohne Schatten

December 14: Jeanine Tesori's Grounded
New Production/Met Premiere
Performance From October 19, 2024

December 21: Mozart's The Magic Flute
Abridged English-language Version

December 28: Humperdinck's Hansel And Gretel
Performance From December 25, 1982

January 4, 2025: Offenbach's Les Contes D'hoffmann
Performance From October 5, 2024

January 11: Verdi's Rigoletto

January 18: Puccini's Tosca
Performance From November 23, 2024

January 25 **12:30pm: Verdi's Aida
New Production

February 1: Verdi's La Traviata
Artist's Choice
Chosen by Angel Blue: Renée Fleming in a performance from November 7, 2007

February 8: Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer
Artist's Choice
Chosen by Ryan Speedo Green: George London in a performance from March 5, 1960

February 15: Strauss's Ariadne Auf Naxos
Artist's Choice
Chosen by Lise Davidsen: Jessye Norman in a performance from January 5, 1985

February 22: Verdi's Falstaff
Artist's Choice
Chosen By Yannick Nézet-séguin: Leonard Bernstein Conducting A Performance From March 21, 1964

March 1: Bizet's Carmen
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Bizet's opera with a performance from January 16, 2010

March 8: Puccini's La Bohème

March 15: Beethoven's Fidelio

March 22: Ravel's L'enfant Et Les Sortilèges and Poulenc's Les Mamelles De Tirésias
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ravel's opera with a performance from February 28, 1981

March 29: Jake Heggie's Moby Dick
New Production/Met Premiere

April 5: Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar
New Production/Met Premiere
Performance from Fall 2024

April 12: Mozart's Die Zauberflöte

April 19: Rossini's L'assedio Di Corinto
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Beverly Sills’s Met debut with a performance from April 19, 1975

April 26: Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro

May 3: Verdi's Il Trovatore
Performance from October 29, 2024

May 10: Listeners' Choice: Great Met Broadcasts
Opera TBA, to be selected by listener voting

May 17: Strauss's Salome
New Production

May 24: John Adams's Antony And Cleopatra
New Production/Met Premiere

May 31: Rossini's Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

June 7: Tchaikovsky's The Queen Of Spades

More information on Saturday matinee broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera here.

Weekly Schedule
We welcome you to view the WRKF Classical weekly schedule below.