Renee Fleming

We’re featuring the music of Jules Massenet on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/31 3:00 p.m.) with two of his operas: the beautifully atmospheric “Thais,” and the dramatic “Therese,” both with stellar casts.

This week's opera is Korngold's 1927 allegorical opera about Heliane, the wife of a tyrant who finds a love that magically overthrows her husband and teleports her to a new life.

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.