Ep. 142 Alcina by Handel
A seemingly all-powerful sorceress rules over her own island domain. She enchants not only nature, but also men, who are helpless to resist her charms. And when she does tire of those besotted men, ...
10 Touko 1h 58min
Ep. 141 Attila by Verdi
Known to history as “The Scourge of God,” Attila was a rampaging conqueror who famously turned aside from the city of Rome after a meeting with the Pope. In this version, Attila is also opposed by a ...
12 Huhti 1h 59min
Ep. 140 Moby Dick by Jake Heggie
All hands on deck! This episode of Opera for Everyone dives headlong into a leviathan of 21st-century opera: Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick (2010). Adapted from Melville’s classic American novel, this seafar...
9 Maalis 1h 58min
Ep. 139 Le Prophète by Meyerbeer
When an entrenched oligarchy and a cynical revolution go to war with one another, what happens to all the people in the middle? Some may be victimized, others silenced, and yet others swept up in the...
10 Helmi 1h 58min
Ep. 138 Rienzi, The Last of the Tribunes, by Wagner
Richard Wagner’s first truly successful opera, set in medieval Rome, sees a young nobleman in love with a young plebeian woman. While this might sound like it’s going to be an operatic love story, it...
12 Tammi 2h 4min
Ep. 137 The Threepenny Opera by Weill and Brecht
Mac the Knife, terror of the London criminal underworld, is a character paradoxically best known to many as the subject of the upbeat, bubbly eponymous 1955, 1959, and 1960 hit single. However, his f...
14 Joulu 20251h 59min
Ep. 135 The Rake's Progress
Which is stronger: the temptations of a shadowy wish-granter, or the love of a virtuous woman? In The Rake’s Progress, Tom’s true love Anne seeks to save him from himself, seeking to unwind the schem...
5 Loka 20251h 58min
