This is the 2017 world premier production of a much heralded opera that takes a non-linear look at the events surrounding the life of Steve Jobs.

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 we turn back to 1965 and a recording of Bellini's Bel Canto classic "Norma" starring Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, John Alexander, Richard Cross, and Yvonne Minton.

This week, we'll hear a 1973 performance of Rossini's "William Tell" featuring Gabriel Bacquier, Mady Mesple, Monsterrat Caballe, and Nicolai Gedda among others.

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.

In an All-American Sunday Opera, we'll feature Ricky Ian Gordon's 2007 operatic version of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" followed by Samuel Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915 and Aaron Copland's Short Symphony No. 2.

Today's opera is a contemporary work by Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen based on a 19th century epic poem.

This week, we'll hear two operas by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: "Le donne curiose" and "Il segreto di Susanna"

For 278 years, Antonio Vivaldi's opera laid dormant in the National Library in Turin. It was found and brought back to life in 2005, and it is to that recording we'll be listening on this week's program.