Ep. 136 Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges

You cannot escape reality.  That being said, artists since time immemorial have tried.  Puccini’s La Bohème follows a group of young people seeking to escape the world of the ordinary, living in an at...

25 Okt 2h 2min

Before the story of Lancelot, Arthur and Guinevere, there was another story of a knight who clandestinely loves the wife of the king. With hazy origins at an unclear point in history, this story has b...

5 Okt 1h 58min

Richard Wagner refused to call Parsifal an opera, but instead considered it a rite of “consecration.” For many years, its performance was restricted to the small German town of Bayreuth: the destinati...

31 Aug 2h 11min

Lohengrin is THE quintessential “knight in shining armor” coming to the rescue of a damsel in distress.  Swanning in on his mysterious boat, he is a literal answer to her prayers.  But though he may b...

15 Jul 2h 4min

Cornwall in the mid-eighteenth century was a remote and isolated region along the southwest coast of Britain, one where a ship and its crew might easily be dashed on the jagged rocks. And sometimes, t...

8 Jun 1h 58min

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 Mai 1h 58min

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 Apr 1h 59min

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 Mar 1h 58min