Jacques Offenbach

We’re taking a look at two versions of the Orpheus legend that were written about 100 years but stylistically lightyears apart on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/27 3:00 p.m.) with Franz Joseph Haydn’s “L’anima del filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice” and Jacque Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld.”

We're covering 155 years of theatre history on this survey which includes some of the musicals that opened in New York in December from the 1870 revival of "Barbe-Blue" by Jacques Offenbach to the show set to open shortly, "How to Dance in Ohio" based on the award-winning documentary of the same name.

We're back in outer space on this week's Sunday Opera with Offenbach's rarely heard opera "A Trip to the Moon" which was based very loosely on the novel by Jules Verne "From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Around It"

Blomdahl's "Aniara" has long been a rarity and collector's favorite. This Swedish opera is about the last survivors of a doomed Earth who find themselves doomed again as their spacecraft, Aniara, goes off-course, sending them on a trip that will go on far beyond the span of their lives.

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.

We continue with the Vienna State Opera for this week’s Sunday Opera (6/7 3:00 p.m.) and Jacques Offenbach’s tale of lost loves, “The Tales of Hoffmann.”…

Join us as we jet off to Rome for this week’s Sunday Opera (8/11 3:00 p.m.) and the Teatro dell’Opera’s production of Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice”…

You think that you have relationship issues? Well, we’re going to be looking at some complicated connections on this week’s Sunday opera (2/24 3:00 p.m.),…

Jacques Offenbach’s charming setting of stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann will be on air for this week’s Sunday Opera (8/13 – 3:00 p.m.). This performance from…