Giuseppe Verdi

We’re returning to Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts one more time for this week’s Sunday Opera (12/8 3:00 p.m.) and their production of “Un ballo in Maschera” (“A Masked Ball”) by Giuseppe Verdi. The 1859 opera in three acts with a libretto by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, “Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué.”

We’re featuring one of the most often augmented operas on this week’s Sunday Opera (8/25 3:00 p.m.) when we turn to the La Scala production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Don Carlo.”

Sondra Radvonovsky, Brian Jagde, and Etienne Dupuis head the cast in this look at how the fate of four people is determined because of an accidental shooting.

We're combining two operas from the Opera Festival of Chicago featuring Andrea Silvestrelli in widely varying roles. The first is as Thomas Becket in Ildebrando Pizzeretti's setting of Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." The second is as Verdi's doomed leader, Attila the Hun, in Attila.

We're off to Germany this week and Verdi's epic centering on the Crusades followed by music of a Verdi contemporary, Emelie Mayer.

Verdi's last opera, "Falstaff," is on tap this week from Beijing's National Center for the Performing Arts

Today's Sunday Opera is from LA Opera and features Latonia Moore in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida." Following the opera will be Mikis Theodorakis' Sinfonie No. 3 based on verse by 18th century Greek poet Dionysius Solomos.

Verdi's 13th opera based on a poem of Lord Byron's about the tragic life of a Greek pirate comes to us from The Opera Festival of Chicago.

Simon Keenleyside and Anna Pirozzi star in Verdi's Macbeth from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

It’s another tale of tragic love and an innocent victim on this week’s Sunday Opera (12/12 3:00 p.m.) in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” and a production…