Italian Opera

This week's opera comes from London's Royal Opera and features Antonio Vivaldi's 1735 opera about the life of Bajazet after his defeat by Tamerlane.

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.

Claudio Monteverdi’s last opera is the featured work on this week’s Sunday Opera (2/6 3:00 p.m.). “L’incoronazione di Poppea” was first performed at the…

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.”…