Paris Opera

We're heading off to the Paris Opera for Marc Antoine Charpentier's tragic revenge opera "Medee" featuring Lea Desandre in the title role. We'll follow the opera with the ballet suite "The Sea" by Nikos Skalkottas.

This week the program gets its opera from the Opera Bastille and the Paris Opera production of "Nixon in China" that looks at Nixon's ground-breaking 1972 trip to China. It stars Thomas Hampson as Nixon and Renee Fleming as Pat Nixon.

Mozart's perennial favorite is on offer this week from The Paris Opera starring Luca Pisaroni in the title role.

The Sunday Opera is off to Paris for this week’s program (8/29 3:00 p.m.) and the sad tale of “Manon” in the opera by Jules Massenet. Manon (Pretty Yende)…