Opera Southwest

This week's program begins with Armienta's opera based on the story of "Zorro" as he rights wrongs in southern California in the 19th century. We'll continue out trip with Spanish music after the opera with an excerpt from a Zarzuela entitled "Los Gavilanes" and two orchestral works by Joaquin Rodrigo and Enrique Granados.

The Sunday Opera is off to Opera Southwest for Rossini's setting of the comic machinations of "Le Comte Ory" as he goes to great lengths, and fails, to seduce the wife of another.

We’re finishing our brief visit to Opera Southwest on this week’s Sunday Opera (10/3 3:00 p.m.) and a once-lost opera by Giovanni Bottesini about Ali Baba…

This week is the first of two operas from Opera Southwest on The Sunday Opera (9/26 3:00 p.m.). Based on a 1760 play by Voltaire, “Tancredi” had its…

Germanic paganism mixed with some Early Middle Age Christianity and a splash of Greek tragedy is the recipe for this week’s Sunday Opera (10/4 3:00 p.m.)…

Hector Armienta’s adaptation of “Bless Me, Ultima” from Opera Southwest is the featured production on this week’s Sunday Opera (9/27 3:00 p.m.).…

Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma” from Opera Southwest will be featured on this week’s Sunday Opera (12/8 3:00 p.m.). Lindsay Ohse is the doomed Druid priestess…

The heroic folk-legend of Swiss patriot William Tell is this week’s Sunday Opera (12/2 3:00 p.m.) from Opera Southwest. Gioacchino Rossini’s opera, with a…

“Amleto,” an opera by Franco Faccio that disappeared for over 140 years, is the special treat on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/26 3:00 p.m.). This…

The Sunday Opera travels to Albuquerque’s Opera Southwest this week (11/19 3:00 p.m.) for Giocchino Rossini’s “Tancredi.” The libretto by Gaetano Rossi…