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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"
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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.
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This week's opera is Mussorgsky's last "completed" work centering on political and religious conflicts in Russia in the 17th century.
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Meyerbeer's 1836 grand opera is performed here by a stellar cast headed by Martina Arroyo, Joan Sutherland, and Anastasios Vrenios.
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This week's opera is the four-act opera from 1907 by Rimsky-Korsakov that adapts two Russian folk legends for its libretto by Vladimir Belsky.
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This week's opera is the only full-length opera by Bernard Herrmann based on Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" with a libretto by Herrmann's then wife, Lucille Fletcher.
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A Tempo this Saturday (3/11 at 7 pm) features an interview with a musician whose Covid-era chamber work will be featured in video form as part of a tribute to hospital and other medical workers. The program also looks at plans by the National Children's Chorus to launch a summer opera camp for teen musicians.
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For Women's History Month, The Sunday Opera is featuring this 1977 opera by Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave. After "Mary, Queen of Scotts," we'll hear move works by women composers from Elisabetta Brusa, Marianne Martines, Jennifer Higdon, and and Dana Suesse.
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This week's Sunday Opera feature's Rossini's 1815 opera which is most widely known for its overture and little else. With its happy ending, it's a perfect antidote for the winter doldrums.
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This week's Sunday opera features a 1983 recording of Rameau's battle of good and Evil centering on Zoroastre and his love Amelite.