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.
"Sunday Night at the Opera" is no longer on air. This is a program archive. For the current WCRB schedule, click here.
Latest Episodes
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Beethoven only wrote one opera, "Fidelio..." or so the story goes. The full story behind Beethoven's opera is more complex. This week on Sunday Night at… -
The great José Van Dam joins an outstanding cast - including Beverly Sills and Nicolai Gedda - in the first opera of the 20th century to be featured at… -
This week on Sunday Night at the Opera, we feature the great baritone Thomas Hampson in Rossini's comic masterpiece, "The Barber of Seville."Gioachino… -
The legendary clemency of the Roman Emperor Titus gets a spectacular operatic treatment as Mark Padmore joins René Jacobs for Mozart's final opera, La… -
This week, two operas: Kurt Weill's satirical "opera for beggars," The Threepenny Opera, and Leoncavallo's dramatic sad-clown tale, Pagliacci.Kurt Weill:… -
Tenor Paul Agnew sings the title role in Charpentier's gripping "Orpheus," and legendary conductor Robert Shaw leads Beethoven's epic choral journey, the… -
Hear one of the most celebrated voices of the 20th century, Maria Callas, in the benchmark recording of Puccini's "Tosca."Giacomo Puccini: ToscaMaria… -
In an animated and vibrant performance of one of Mozart's most perfect works, Norwegian baritone Johannes Weisser plays the unscrupulous title… -
Love, madness, and dealings with the devil: it's the rise and fall of Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress!Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's… -
Temptation and morality go head-to-head this week, as WCRB celebrate's Charles Gounod's 199th birthday with his opera Faust, starring baritone José Van…
