opera

This is one of the five opera buffa written by Rossini for the Teatro San Moise in Venice in a production from the Opera Festival of Chicago.

Verdi's 13th opera based on a poem of Lord Byron's about the tragic life of a Greek pirate comes to us from The Opera Festival of Chicago.

A Tempo this Saturday (10/22 at 7 pm) checks in on two opera companies bringing unique or unusual offerings to their audiences - Houston Grand Opera, which is staging Dame Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers, and Opera Philadelphia, which is distributing some of its opera film productions through movie houses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

This week's opera is the last from the NCPA and features a contemporary Chinese opera about the life and death of the teacher in a mountain village in China.

A Tempo this Saturday (10/8 at 7 pm) checks in with MasterVoices to hear about its upcoming performance of the spoken-dialogue version of Carmen.

China's National Center for the Performing Arts is bringing Western operatic tradition to China, and this is a production of Dvorak's beloved opera "Rusalka" featuring an almost entirely Chinese company.

Bizet's opera looking at lasting friendship, betrayal, and sacrifice, "les pecheurs de pereles" ("The Pearl Fishers") is this week's Sunday Opera from China's National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing.

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"

George London and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf head the cast this Sunday (9/4 at 8 pm).

Handel's first opera, written when he was 19, was a huge success when it first premiered in 1705, but like several other works, it didn't resurface until the 1980s.