Tune in at 8pm to the French comic opera The King and the Farmer by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and Mozarts, The Impresario.
Tune in at 8pm to hear a rare Puccini double-bill. Puccini's first and second operas, Le Villi and Edgar. Both recordings have all star casts featuring Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo, Carlo Bergonzi and Leo Nucci with Tito Gobbi in a speaking role.
Tune in tonight to hear Donizetti's, The Daughter of the Regiment staring Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland....complete with the aria at the end of act 1 with the 9 high C's for the tenor.
Tune in at 8pm to hear a first on At the Opera, Pietro Mascagni's Parisina.
Tune in at 8pm to hear George Frideric Handel's opera of 1711, Rinaldo. This seldom performed Baroque opera was Handel's fifth and was a huge success at its premier.
Tune in at 8pm to hear Verdi's La Forza Del Destino staring Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker and Robert Merrill recorded in Rome in 1964.
Tune in tonight at 8pm to hear Johann Strauss II Die Fledermaus. A great opera to end the year and be sure and listen to see if you can recognize the special guests singers in Act II.
This special edition of At The Opera features Sean Bianco's traditional holiday double-bill: La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini and the uplifting seasonal classic Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti.
Tune in at 8pm to hear a 1954 CETRA recording of Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera.
Tune in at 8pm to hear Verdi's Il Trovatore staring Giacomo Lauri Volpi recorded in 1951 on CETRA.
