Margaret Juntwait joined the Metropolitan Opera as host of the Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcasts in 2004, only the third regular announcer in the Met’s broadcast history. In 2006, she also became the announcer for programming on Metropolitan Opera Radio on SIRIUS. Prior to her work with the Met, she was a classical music radio host with WNYC Radio and has also hosted numerous radio documentaries and museum tours. Juntwait is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music with a degree in voice.
Margaret Juntwait appears in the following:
The Greene Space
JS 30: Three Decades of John Schaefer
Friday, December 2, 2011
8:00 PM
In 1981, a young radio host from Brooklyn came to WNYC. John Schaefer was hired to read newscasts and introduce classical music, but soon found himself hosting a new music show that quickly became the on-air hub of the fertile downtown music scene.
Thoughout December, WNYC will celebrate Schaefer’s inimitable ...
"Wild Man" Leo Ornstein
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
New York, NY —
Composer Leo Ornstein was a brilliant and enigmatic musical figure in the 1910's with a devoted following. But once he quit the concert stage, he was practically forgotten. WNYC's Margaret Juntwait takes a closer look at the "Wild Man" of classical music, who died this ...Symphony Space Re-Opens
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
New York, NY —
Symphony Space, the concert house on the Upper West Side has been closed for renovation since last June. The owners built offices, improved backstage facilities and inherited a legendary movie house. They're open now, and WNYC's Margaret Juntwait got a look….Narrator: It started out ...
The NY Festival of Song
Wednesday, January 09, 2002
New York —
The New York Festival of Song offers a crash course in Scandinavian song and culture. WNYC's Margaret Juntwait spoke with artistic director Steven Blier about songs such as this one by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg."God Bless America"
Tuesday, December 11, 2001
New York, NY —
Now, as Officer Rodriguez of the New York Police Department, he has become a face and a voice that gives comfort to millions of Americans. As WNYC's Margaret Juntwait reports, his first CD single is released today.
The GOP in New Hampshire; Opera News Beefcake; Schwing Magazine; Homelessness in the Media; A Newspaper Golden Age?
Friday, December 10, 1999
