Sunday Night at the Opera
Sunday nights, take a trip to the opera house, without leaving the comfort of your own house. Grab a bowl of popcorn and settle in, as your host Chris Voss brings you a different fantastic opera recording each week.
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Latest Episodes
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Enjoy an opera within and opera, as the glorious Jessye Norman stars in Richard Strauss' comic masterpiece "Ariadne auf Naxos."Richard Strauss: Ariadne… -
Jacques Offenbach - composer of the "Can-can" and king of light Opera - wrote one "serious" opera: a fanciful setting of the life and stories of the… -
We take lights for granted nowadays, but lighting was not always so easy to come by. This week, tune in for the first stage production to use lightbulbs -… -
May 21, 2017Gil Rose and Odyssey Opera present a rarely heard gem by Antonin Dvořák: his opera "Dimitrij."CAST Dimitrij: Ales BrisceinMarina: Dana… -
Monteverdi lived at the crossroads of the Renaissance and the Baroque, and his operas changed the course of music history. -
This week on Sunday Night at the Opera, it's Tchaikovsky's final stage work (written in conjunction with his ballet "The Nutcracker"): "Iolanta."Piotr… -
Continuing this month's series of "deep dive" operas with a story part fairy tale, part farce, and all satire: Prokofiev's "The Love for Three… -
For the month of April, Sunday Night at the Opera dives into some gems from the back of the music library. This week, join Chris Voss for an old Hindi… -
For the month of April, Sunday Night at the Opera dives deep into the stacks of the music library and dusts off some rarely-heard gems! On April 2, tune…
