Opera Matinee

Puccini's sweeping romance, La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West), is set during the California Gold Rush. This production of the Metropolitan Opera from 2018 features Eva-Maria Westbroek and Jonas Kaufmann.

The Metropolitan Opera's fantastic staging of Massenet’s Cendrillon -- based on the Cinderella fairytale -- is presented with an English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess. Led by Emmanuel Villaume. A recorded performance from January 2022.

Gluck's immortal opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, based on the myth of Orpheus, who travels to the underworld to retrieve his dead wife, Eurydice, is presented live by the Metropolitan Opera, featuring Anthony Rolfe Costanzo and Ying Fang in the title roles.

A production of Wolf Trap Opera's 2023 summer season at The Barns. Based on the myth of the mortal Semele, whose affair with the god Jupiter, combined with her vanity and her ambition to become immortal, causes her destruction. With the aria, "Where'er You Walk". Featuring Esther Tonea and Lunga Eric Hallam.

A production of Wolf Trap Opera's 2023 summer season at the Barns. Faust, a scholar, disillusioned by life and depressed, promises his services to Mephistopheles in exchange for youth, a chilling bargain that results in tragic consequences for Faust and his young love, Marguerite. With Eric Taylor, William Clay Thompson and Brittany Logan.