opera

This week's opera comes from a British composer who was considered to be one of the finest proponents of British national music, George Alexander Macfarren. The opera is "Robin Hood" and features a cast headed by Nicky Spense and Kay Jordan as Robin and Marian.

This week's opera features a 1976 recording of Massenet's 19th opera, "Thais."

This program features Richard Wagner's second opera (first to be staged) "Das Liebesverbot" which he based on Shakespeare's "Measure of Measure."

We'll be listening to a recent recording of Handel's 1730 opera about the Queen of Napels and her various suitors on this week's program.

This program features two operas by Wolf-Ferrari: the long-forgotten "Das Hammerskleid" ("The Garment of Heaven") and the very popular "Il Segreto di Susanna" ("Susanna's Secret")

This week's Sunday opera and following pieces are all my way of celebrating my annual day because they're pieces that I love and are dear to me beginning with Puccini's Incredibly moving and romantic "La Rondine" or "The Swallow."

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's opera is Mussorgsky's last "completed" work centering on political and religious conflicts in Russia in the 17th century.

Meyerbeer's 1836 grand opera is performed here by a stellar cast headed by Martina Arroyo, Joan Sutherland, and Anastasios Vrenios.