Search results for

It took 80 years for Zemlinsky's fairy tale opera to be performed after it was suppressed by an unscrupulous conductor. Gorge is a dreamer who dreams of a better life that comes true for a happy ending.

This week's opera is from the pen of a forgotten master who was the teacher of Donizetti, inspiration of Rossini, and author of nearly 70 operas, Johann Simon Mayr. The opera is 1814's “Le due duchesse ossia La caccia dei lupi” (“The Two Duchesses or The Hunt of the Wolves”) in its 2017 world premier recording.

This week's Sunday Opera features an afternoon of the lovely music of Franz Lehar. The first piece is "The Merry Widow" from the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Following that, is a recording of Lehar's "The Land of Smiles" featuring Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Nicolai Gedda.

This week's opera is Busoni's "Doktor Faust," a seldomly done work featuring Dietrich Fischer-Deskau as the narrator and Dietrich Henschel in the title role.

Our second look at the story of Manon Lescaut continues from the Teatro Regio on this week’s Sunday Opera (8/3 3:00 p.m.) with Massanet’s treatment of the story by Antoine Prevost. In this one, Manon doesn’t die in the wilderness or desert of Louisiana, she dies of exhaustion on the road to Le Havre to be deported.

Between the Keys' celebrates its tenth anniversary with an all-Bach program this Friday (3/21, rebroadcast Saturday 3/22)

Want to take your homemade treats to the next level? We've got three recipes to put warmth, color and a little wow on your holiday table from chef Yotam Ottolenghi.

This week's opera is Humperdinck's 1875 "fairytale" opera about a Goose-Girl who is in the control of a witch, but when that spell is broken, she doesn't live happily ever after even though she has found the love of a prince.

This week, we'll hear a 1991 recording of "The Tales of Hoffmann" that features Francisco Araiza, Samuel Ramey, Eva Lind, Jessye Norman, Cheryl Studer, Felicity Palmer, and Anne Sofie von Otter.

This week's opera comes from a British composer who was considered to be one of the finest proponents of British national music, George Alexander Macfarren. The opera is "Robin Hood" and features a cast headed by Nicky Spense and Kay Jordan as Robin and Marian.