French Opera

This week's Sunday Opera is all about escaping into fairytales with Massenet's "Cendrillon" at its center. Along with the opera, we'll have more music written about the beloved princess with a little Sleeping Beauty thrown in for good measure.

Four Baroque operas: two from Michel-Richard de Lalande and two from Marc-Antoine Charpentier performed by casts from the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF)

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 Sunday Opera looks at two operas by Umberto Giordano: the well known "Fedora", and the lesser-known "Madame Sans-Gene"

Bullfights in Vienna? There will be on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/28 3:00 p.m.) when we’ll hear a production of Bizet’s “Carmen” from The Vienna State…

It’s an afternoon with a revolutionary on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/23 3:00 p.m.), a musical revolutionary, that is, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and the opera…

We’ll be off to Spain and tilting at windmills on this week’s Sunday Opera (9/15 3:00 p.m.) with Jules Massenet’s “Don Quichotte” from the Lyric Opera of…

Journey to Seville with this week’s Sunday Opera (9/23 3:00 p.m.) and the LA Opera production of George Bizet’s “Carmen” featuring Ana Maria Martinez as…