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This week's opera is Meyerbeer's 1856 Work that looks at Peter the Great as he tries to win Catherine for his wife and includes all sorts of trials that are overcome for a happy ending.
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This program features a 2004 recording of one of the 39 operas of Rossini that has been pretty much forgotten. "Matilde di Shabran" is a love story of sorts which is filled with some wonderful music by Rossini and a complicated libretto that is an excellent example of its time.