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We hear excerpts from two rarely performed Donizetti operas: Poliuto and Rita.PlaylistDie Entführung aus dem Serail: Overture (excerpt)Composer Wolfgang�
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We explore Il Trovatore, perhaps the most tune-filled of all Verdi's opera.PlaylistDie Entführung aus dem Serail: Overture (excerpt)Composer Wolfgang�
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The landmark Broadway musical Show Boat - music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II - opened in New York on December 27, 1927and remains to�
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Peter Fox Smith explores two operas - Puccini's La Boheme and Massenet's Werther - both of which take place around Christmas.
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Peter Fox Smith previews the 1 p.m. live MET broadcast of Verdi's timeless grand opera Aida.PlaylistAida: Act IVComposer Giuseppe VerdiEnsemble Vienna�
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Pergolesi's famous intermezzo about a maid who becomes mistress of the house - through a BIG trick!PlaylistLa Serva Padrona: Part 1Composer Giovanni�
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What really happens at the seance? What's real and what's a sham? These questions are addressed in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium. Peter Fox Smith�
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Peter Fox Smith introduces us to Puccini's long neglected early opera Edgar.PlaylistDie Entführung aus dem Serail: Overture (excerpt)Composer Wolfgang�
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We continue our exploration of operatic prologues with the Prologue to Verdi's Simon Boccanegra and the Prologue to Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.PlaylistDie�
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In the first of two programs of operatic prologues, we hear the Prologue to Monteverdi's Orfeo, the Prologue to Pagliacci, and the Prologue to�