Lucia di Lammermoor

We’ve been moving all around Europe recently, and on this week’s Sunday Opera (9/13 3:00 p.m.), we’re returning to Milan for a recent production of Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” Following "Lucia" will be the world premiere recording of a Donizetti one-act opera, "Aristea."

This week's opera is a 1971 performance of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" featuring a cast that includes Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherill Milnes, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Heugette Turangeau.

Everything that makes grand opera grand – passion, lies, betrayal, madness, murder, and suicide – are on tap for this week’s Sunday Opera (9/8 3:00 p.m.)…