Vienna State Opera

We’re back at the Vienna State Opera for this week’s Sunday Opera (9/11 3:00 p.m.) and their recent production of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut.”

Modest Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” is better known in its versions by Rimsky-Korsakov (1896 & 1908) and the final version (for now) by Dmitriy Shostakovich (1940), but this week’s version is that of the original piece finished by Mussorgsky in 1869 which is closest to the drama by Pushkin, contains recitatives, a few scenes that have been highly altered, and is performed in one act.

Our final performance from Vienna will be featured on this week’s Sunday Opera (6/14 3:00 p.m.) as we go to the Vienna State Opera’s production of Richard…

We continue with the Vienna State Opera for this week’s Sunday Opera (6/7 3:00 p.m.) and Jacques Offenbach’s tale of lost loves, “The Tales of Hoffmann.”…