The Lyric Stage with Mike Harrah
Sundays at 8 pm
Join Mike Harrah for great performances from the world of opera, including arias, duets, trios, ensemble performances, artist portraits and even short operas.
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Macbeth, one of several operas Verdi based on Shakespeare's plays, is the featured work this Sunday (3/30 at 8 pm).
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Maria Callas as Norma helped revive interest in bel canto opera.
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Suor Angelica is the second of Puccini's triptych "Il Trittico."
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Nilsson sings excerpts from Aida and Tristan and Isolde.
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Fidelio was not successful at its premiere in 1805, but, after revisions, in 1814 it joined the repertoire. Hear highlights this Sunday (3/3 at 8 pm).
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Maria Callas and Alfredo Krauss highlight Act 1 of "The Lisbon Traviata."
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Giovanni Paisello wrote the satire Lo Sposo Burlato at the request of Catherine the Great. Hear it this Sunday (2/4) at 8 pm.
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"Camacho's Wedding" is the only one of Mendelsohn's several operas to be performed in his lifetime.
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We have Haydn's one act opera La Cantarina and Vivaldi arias sung by Cecilia Bartoli this Sunday (1/14) at 8 pm.
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Romberg conducts his own music, and Dorothy Kirsten and Gordon Macrae lead the singers in this Sunday's program (12/31 at 8 pm).