Liszt at his most personal, this Friday (11/29, rebroadcast Saturday 11/30)

A Tempo Saturday (11/30 at 7 pm) continues its survey of seasonal programming with a look at Opera Orlando's new opera, "Four Lost Santas," which it is pairing with a production of "Amahl and the Night Visitors."

Our penultimate opera from Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts for this season on the Sunday Opera (12/01 3:00 p.m.) is their new production of a very popular visiting presentation of Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" from last year.

Another year has just about come to an end, and we’ll begin this final month with our regular feature on this week’s Dress Circle (12/1 7:00 p.m.) as we listen to a few of the shows that had openings in New York in December. From Victor Herbert’s “Mlle. Modiste” in 1905 to our latest opening for which we have a cast recording, 2023’s “How to Dance in Ohio,” we’ll be sampling songs from shows spanning 118 years.

Nabucco was Verdi's third opera and his first great success. Hear selections Sunday (12/1 at 8 pm) on The Lyric Stage.

Gounod wrote the tale of a a pet dove and true love one year after his masterpiece Faust. Hear it this Sunday (11/24 at 8 pm) on The Lyric Stage.

Exploring the cadenzas for Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 this Friday (11/22, rebroadcast Saturday 11/23)

A Tempo kicks off a series of holiday-focused episodes with a conversation with McCarter Theatre Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen.

We’re staying in Beijing for another production from the National Center for the Performing Arts on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/24 3:00 p.m.). This week, it’s an original commission combining Chinese and Western musical idioms in a story based on a popular folksong from the early 20th Century by composer Zhang Quianyi entitled “Lan Huahua” which follows the unfortunate story of a resilient young woman in feudal China from a bizarrely arranged marriage through to her tragic end.

Many of us are making our preparations for Thanksgiving, and since the day of family, friends, eating, parades, and football is coming fast upon us, this week’s Dress Circle (11/24 7:00 p.m.) will offer some “turkeys’ for the holiday. Those turkeys are musicals that didn’t run more than ten performances on Broadway, many through no fault of their own.