opera

In an All-American Sunday Opera, we'll feature Ricky Ian Gordon's 2007 operatic version of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" followed by Samuel Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915 and Aaron Copland's Short Symphony No. 2.

Today's opera is a contemporary work by Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen based on a 19th century epic poem.

A Tempo this Saturday (5/14 at 7 pm) looks at two recent releases by Odyssey Opera and Margaret Brouwer.

This week, we'll hear two operas by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: "Le donne curiose" and "Il segreto di Susanna"

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.

This week's opera looks at Berg's work, "Lulu," that was one of the first operas to be attempted in the new twelve-tone theory of composition.

Queen Elizabeth and Mary Stuart square off in Donizetti's version of Schiller's play.

This week's opera looks Puccini's triptych using a different recording for each segment featuring some legendary voices like Renata Tebaldi, Leontyne Price, and Sheril Milnes.