The New Voice of Saturday Afternoons

Opera is a tradition-bound enterprise, and there may be no more traditional radio audience than the 10 million fans who tune in each Saturday for live broadcasts of New York’s Metropolitan Opera. So the retirement of Peter Allen, the Voice of The Met for the last 29 years, has caused no small amount of hand-wringing. This week, the Met introduced its new voice: Margaret Juntwait, a classical music host at WNYC radio.