La Scala

We’re turning to La Scala for another opera on this week’s Sunday Opera (7/13 3:00 p.m.), and this one is a forgotten one by a popular seventeenth century composer named Antonio Cesti. It’s the 1656 work entitled L’ORONTEA which features the trials of the title character who wants to marry for true love and not duty.

We’re returning to La Scala for this week’s Sunday Opera (7/6 3:00 p.m.) and Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” The libretto, based on a verse-novel by Alexander Pushkin about a jaded, cynical, and selfish Onegin whose actions disrupt the lives of just about everyone around him.

It might be difficult for you to get to Milan right now, but this week’s Sunday Opera (6-29 3:00 p.m.) is going to be going there for the beginning of a series of operas from La Scala. We’re beginning with Giuseppe Verdi’s “La forza del destino” (“The Force of Destiny”) in a production starring Anna Netrebko, Ludovic Tezier, and Brian Jagde.

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.”

This week's opera is the long forgotten comedy by Leonardo Vinci, "Li zite 'ngalera" or "The Newlyweds in the Galley" from La Scala. This comedy features abandonment, pursuit, disguises, and a happy ending.

This week's opera comes from Milan's La Scala Opera House and features Saioa Hernandez in the title role of Amilcare Ponchielli's "La Gioconda"

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It’s an afternoon of classical invaders on this week’s Sunday Opera (8/18 3:00 p.m.) that begins with Verdi’s “Attila” from La Scala in Milan featuring…