Gaetano Donizetti

Families are wonderful things, until they’re not, and many of the most dysfunctional families have made to the stage. We’re looking at the beginnings of one of them on this week’s Sunday Opera (3/30 3:00 p.m.) with Gaetano Donizetti’s “Rosmonda D’ Inghilterra.”

This week’s Sunday Opera (11/17 3:00 p.m.) is the beginning of another series from Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts that features Vincenzo Bellini’s “La Sonnambula.”

This week's opera is a 1971 performance of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" featuring a cast that includes Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherill Milnes, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Heugette Turangeau.

We're back at the NCPA again this week for Gaetano Donizetti's wonderful romantic comedy "La Fille du Regiment." After the opera, we'll have more music of Donizetti including the first opera he wrote, "Il Pigmalione."

Our final opera from the NCPA is Donizetti's wonderful comedy "The Elixer of Love" where Nemorino goes to what ever lengths he needs to in order to win the love of Adina, even using the last of his money to buy a love potion from the wily Dr. Dulcamara, who sells him nothing more than a bottle of Bordeaux, but it's enough for Nemorino to overcome his shortcomings and win the day!

This week's Sunday Opera features a couple of "Dons" by Gaetano Donizetti: "Don Pasquale" from the NCPA and the world premier recording of a "lost" work, "Don Gregorio."

A delightfully comic romp featuring a happy ending is featured on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/21 3:00 p.m.) in Gaetano Donizetti’s “La Fille du Regiment”…

The one act Elvida is one of Gaetano Donizetti's long neglected operas. He wrote seventy or so operas, and if some of them were not neglected, we would…

The Sunday Opera is once again traveling to Tudor England this week (5/16 3:00 p.m.) with Gaetano Donizetti’s tragic look at the fate of “Anna Bolena.”…

We have a comic battle of the sexes on this week’s Sunday Opera (10/25 3:00 p.m.) in a production of Gaetano Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” from London’s…