World of Opera archive
Read History With A Toxic Twist: 'Lucrezia Borgia' WDAV
November 4, 2011 – Renee Fleming leads the cast as opera's most poisonous mother. WDAV
Watch The Bloodiest Opera Ever? Maybe Strauss' 'Elektra' WDAV
October 28, 2011 – A gruesome tale of one very dysfunctional family, courtesy of Richard Strauss. WDAV
Listen An All-Consuming Parental Love: Verdi's 'Rigoletto' WDAV
October 21, 2011 – The tragedies of Verdi's own life spurred some of his most extraordinary work. WDAV
Listen A View From The Bridge: Great Sorrows In Little Souls, American-Style WDAV
October 14, 2011 – Brooklyn verismo: the trials of Italian immigrants — some of them illegal — in 1950s Red Hook. WDAV
Listen Storms And Salvation: 'The Flying Dutchman' WDAV
October 7, 2011 – Wagner's lonely wanderer anticipates a generation of Westerns — in a vivid and compelling story. WDAV