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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.

Enjoy this encore broadcast Monday (8/4 at 8 pm) featuring the music of two great Mexican composers from the first half of the 20th century.

We’re returning to Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts one more time for this week’s Sunday Opera (12/8 3:00 p.m.) and their production of “Un ballo in Maschera” (“A Masked Ball”) by Giuseppe Verdi. The 1859 opera in three acts with a libretto by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, “Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué.”

A Tempo kicks off a series of holiday-focused episodes with a conversation with McCarter Theatre Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen.