Philippe Rouillon

We’re dusting off some English history on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/20 3:00 p.m.) through a work by Camille Saint-Saens, a live 1991 recording of his rarely performed “Henry VIII.” The libretto by Armand Silvestre and Leonce Detroyat looks at a small section of the infamous life of a man driven by ego, a thirst for power, and the overpowering need to have a male heir.

Camille Saint-Saens wrote twelve operas in all, and we’ll be enjoying one of them on this week’s Sunday Opera (3/7 3:00 p.m.), and it’s not “Samson et…