Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Because of a technical glitch, last month’s presentation of Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed opera “The Enchantress” ended before the final act and supplementary pieces could air. Because many of you let us know that you wanted to hear the end of the opera, we’re re-airing it on this week’s Sunday Opera. Enjoy!

When it comes to operas by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, works like “Eugene Onegin,” “The Queen of Spades,” and even “Mazeppa” may come to mind first. However, on this week’s opera (1/12 3:00 p.m.), we’ll be hearing an 1887 tragedy entitled “The Enchantress” where the heroine is one of those poor people who’s just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and because of the misplaced ire of another woman, is one of several people who dies.

Join us for a trip to the Bavarian State Opera on this week’s Sunday Opera (9/22 3:00 p.m.) and their recent production of Tchaikovsky’s “Pique Dame” ("The Queen of Spades") which had its world premiere in St. Petersburg on December 7, 1890. The opera will be followed by a nearly complete performance of Tchaikovsky's incidental music to "The Snow Maiden."

This week's Sunday Opera begins with Purcell's setting of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as "The Fairy Queen" and is followed by three (and a bit) treatments of Shakespeare's "The Tempest finishing with Paul Moravec's Pulitzer Prize winning Tempest Fantasy.

This delightful Christmas fantasy takes place through Christmas Eve to Christmas morning and finds the young smith named Vakula traveling to St. Petersburg on the back of the devil in order to get the Tsarina's slippers as a gift for his love.

The heroine in Tchaikovsky’s 1887 opera “The Enchantress” being featured on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/2 3:00 p.m.) is one of those poor people who’s…