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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.
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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.