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Victor Hugo’s novel “Angelo, the Tyrant of Padua” has been used for several operatic adaptations with Amilcare Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda” probably being the best known, but on this week’s Sunday Opera (6/8 3:00 p.m.), we’re looking at a different treatment by librettist Angelo Zanardini in Alfredo Catalani’s “Dejanice” which had its premiere in 1883.

We’re returning to La Scala for this week’s Sunday Opera (7/6 3:00 p.m.) and Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” The libretto, based on a verse-novel by Alexander Pushkin about a jaded, cynical, and selfish Onegin whose actions disrupt the lives of just about everyone around him.

It’s a comic battle of the sexes on this week’s Sunday Opera (6/21 3:00 p.m.) with a bit of fiancée swapping from the minds of Lorenzo Da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte, ossia la scuola degli amanti” which translates with some care to “Women Are Like That or The School for Lovers”

Hear Albert Lortzing's one act, which premiered in 1828, this Sunday (6/2) on The Lyric Stage.

Herman Prey, Peter Schreir and Ruth Margret Putz head the cast in this week's The Lyric Stage on Sunday (6/11 at 8 pm).

Lover, husband, the police - nothing is going to stop Amelia from going to the ball on The Lyric Stage Sunday (6/4).

A Tempo this Saturday (7/6 at 7 pm) talks with Ballet X Co-Founder and Artistic and Executive Director Christine Cox about how a generous donation will speed up its long- and short-term dreams.

We asked 137 jazz journalists to pick their favorite albums that came out this year. Out of over 700 nominees, here are their collective top 50 picks, along with top finishers in the Latin jazz, vocal, debut and reissue categories.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (6/5) pays tribute to Igor Stravinsky.

A Tempo this Saturday (6/3 at 7 pm) features a conversation with screenwriter and music educator Lille Gardner about her plans for an animated series about composers who were women or from other underrepresented groups.