opera

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.

This week's Sunday Opera looks at two operas by Umberto Giordano: the well known "Fedora", and the lesser-known "Madame Sans-Gene"