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Music for Piano Quintet, this Friday (7/25, rebroadcast Saturday 7/26)

A Tempo Saturday (7/12) explores the Mann Center for the Performing Arts' plans to renovate its main plaza and other facilities as it prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

It’s the Opera Comique for the venue of this week’s work by Jean-Paul Rameau: “Les Fetes d’Hebe” (“The Festivals of Hebe or The Lyric Talents) on the Sunday Opera (7/20 3:00 p.m.). The performance features a cast of nine lead by Wiliam Christie and the Orchestra and Chorus of Les Arts Florissants. True to most Baroque operas, the work consists of a prologue and three acts, and since this is Rameau, it’s one of his opera-ballets, filled with some of his lovely charming music.

The July 4 week kicks Monday (6/30) off with this annual broadcast of music assembled from live and recorded performances by the Brooklyn-based chamber orchestra The Knights, with guests Brooklyn Rider.

Join us Monday (6/23 at 8 pm) for the second of two concert broadcasts from the 2024 Strings Music Festival that shares highlights from its opening and closing concerts.

We’re turning to La Scala for another opera on this week’s Sunday Opera (7/13 3:00 p.m.), and this one is a forgotten one by a popular seventeenth century composer named Antonio Cesti. It’s the 1656 work entitled L’ORONTEA which features the trials of the title character who wants to marry for true love and not duty.

It’s our third and final look at a treatment of Prevost’s tragic tale of Manon on this week’s Sunday Opera (8/10 3:00 p.m.) with the opera by Giacomo Puccini from the Teatro Regio in Turin. This production features Erika Grimaldi as Manon, Roberto Aronica as des Grieux, Alessandro Luongo as Lescaut, and Carlo Lepore as Gernote. This will be followed by the complete ballet score for "Cipollino" by Karen Khachaturian.