With Die Zauberflöte, The Clemency of Titus (La clemenza di Tito) was one of the last two operas Mozart completed — it premiered less than two months before the composer’s untimely death at age 35. This performance of Mozart’s final opera seria features tenor Russell Thomas in the title role.

Hear Bizet’s most popular opera starring Ana María Martínez in the title role. The cast also includes Brandon Jovanovich (Don José); Amanda Woodbury (Micaela); Alexander Vinogradov (Escamillo); among other soloists. The performance features the Los Angeles Opera Chorus and Orchestra led by James Conlon.

Albina Shagimuratova (Elvira) and Lawrence Brownlee (Arturo) star in this performance conducted by Lyric music director designate Enrique Mazzola. READ MORE: Hope and Strength: Celebrating Black Artistry with Lawrence Brownlee & Lyric

Dmitry Korchak and Andriana Chuchman are the titular lovers in this performance. Harry Bicket conducts.

Benjamin Bernheim stars in the title role, with Ailyn Pérez (Marguerite), Christian Van Horn (Méphistophélès), and Edward Parks (Valentin) in this performance conducted by Emmanuel Villaume.

Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund), Elisabet Strid (Sieglinde), Ain Anger (Hunding), Eric Owens (Wotan), and Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde) in this performance of the second entry in the Ring cycle. Sir Andrew Davis conducts.

Marina Rebeka (Leïla), Mariusz Kwiecień (Zurga), and Matthew Polenzani (Nadir) star in this performance conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

Ryan Opera Center alumnus Quinn Kelsey stars in the title role, in a cast that also features Matthew Polenzani (Duke of Mantua), Rosa Feola (Gilda), and Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Sparafucile). Marco Armiliato conducts.

Amber Wagner stars in the title role in this performance, which also features Stefano La Colla (Calaf), Andrea Silvestrelli (Timur), and Maria Agresta (Liù). Sir Andrew Davis conducts.

Ana María Martínez stars as Fiordiligi in the opening performance in this season of our Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcast Series. James Gaffigan conducts.

Christine Goerke stars in the title role with soprano Waltraud Meier as Klytaemnestra, Simone Schneider as Chrysothemis, and tenor Norbert Ernst as Aegisth in this performance of Strauss’s gripping, one-act opera.

Tenor Dmitry Korchak—one of the most exciting and sought-after voices of his generation and regarded as one of today’s best performers of bel canto repertoire—stars in the title role alongside soprano Olga Peretyatko and mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez.

Dorothea Röschmann stars as the title character in this performance, which also features Charles Castronovo (Admeto) and Michael Nagy (High Priest of Apollo/Hercules). Antonello Manacorda conducts.

With a libretto based on “Alì Babà and the Forty Thieves,” the well-known and lively story from One Thousand and One Nights,  Alì Babà was composed by Giovanni Bottesini, an Italian composer and double bass virtuoso, known as the “Paganini of the bass” The opera was premiered in 1871 in London, receiving considerable acclaim and numerous performances. However, the score was later …

Opera Southwest artistic director and principal conductor Anthony Barrese leads this performance of Bellini’s seminal bel canto Norma starring Lindsay Ohse in the title role. Cast Norma: Lindsay Ohse Adalgisa: Olivia Vote Pollione: John Pickle Oroveso: Justin Hopkins Clotilde: Cammy Cook Flavio: Gabriel Liboiron-Cohen Ensemble: Opera Southwest Orchestra and Chorus Conductor: Anthony Barrese Chorus master: Kristin Ditlow

Music director laureate Edo de Waart conducted this semi-staged 2016 performance of the celebrated Mozart opera The Marriage of Figaro starring Douglas Williams (Figaro) and Joélle Harvey (Susanna). Cast: Figaro: Douglas Williams Susanna: Joélle Harvey Count: Gordon Bintner Countess Almaviva: Rachel Willis-Sorensen Cherubino: Maren Favela Marcellina: Susanne Mentzer Bartolo: Peixin Chen Don Basilio and Don Curzio: William Ferguson Barbarina: Alisa Suzanne …

WFMT wraps up its series of 3 broadcasts from OperaDelaware with this production of the lesser-known Franco Faccio opera Amleto, which takes Shakespeare’s Hamlet as its inspiration.

A unique double serving of one of opera’s best known patriarchs with Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and its comic sequel, Buoso’s Ghost, by living composer Michael Ching, who also conducts the performance.

WFMT’s series of 3 broadcasts from OperaDelaware begins with this double bill of Puccini one-act operas, Il Tabarro and Suor Angelica.

WFMT shares the third of its three-broadcast series of Handel works performed by Chicago’s Music of the Baroque.  Jane Glover, Music of the Baroque’s music director, conducts this performance of Handel’s Acis and Galatea featuring tenor Thomas Cooley (Acis) and soprano Elizabeth Futral (Galatea). Cast Galatea: Elizabeth Futral Acis: Thomas Cooley Damon: Benjamin Butterfield Polyphemus: Christòpheren Nomura Ensemble: Music of the …

WFMT shares the second of its three-broadcast series of Handel works performed by Chicago’s Music of the Baroque.  Jane Glover, Music of the Baroque’s music director, conducts this performance of Handel’s Israel in Egypt featuring soprano Sarah Gartshore and tenor Daniel Shirley. Cast Soprano: Sarah Gartshore Soprano: Kimberly McCord Soprano: Amy Conn Countertenor: Joseph Schlesinger Tenor: Daniel Shirley Tenor: Klaus Georg …

WFMT shares the first of its three-broadcast series of Handel works performed by Chicago’s Music of the Baroque.  Jane Glover, Music of the Baroque’s music director, conducts this performance of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus starring tenor Thomas Cooley (Judas), bass-baritone Eric Owens (Simon) and featuring Anima — The Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus. Cast Israelitish Woman: Yulia Van Doren Israelitish Man: Meg Bragle …

With Die Zauberflöte, The Clemency of Titus (La clemenza di Tito) was one of the last two operas Mozart completed — it premiered less than two months before the composer’s untimely death at age 35. This performance of Mozart’s final opera seria features tenor Russell Thomas in the title role.

Hear Bizet’s most popular opera starring Ana María Martínez in the title role. The cast also includes Brandon Jovanovich (Don José); Amanda Woodbury (Micaela); Alexander Vinogradov (Escamillo); among other soloists. The performance features the Los Angeles Opera Chorus and Orchestra led by James Conlon.

Under the music direction of Riccardo Chailly, Ildar Abdrazakov (Attila) and Saioa Hernández (Odabella) star in this La Scala performance of Verdi’s Attila.