We’re staying in Beijing for another production from the National Center for the Performing Arts on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/24 3:00 p.m.). This week, it’s an original commission combining Chinese and Western musical idioms in a story based on a popular folksong from the early 20th Century by composer Zhang Quianyi entitled “Lan Huahua” which follows the unfortunate story of a resilient young woman in feudal China from a bizarrely arranged marriage through to her tragic end.

This week’s Sunday Opera (11/17 3:00 p.m.) is the beginning of another series from Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts that features Vincenzo Bellini’s “La Sonnambula.”

We’ve got an American opera based on an American original on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/10 3:00 p.m.) with “The Shining,” based on the novel by Stephen King with music and libretto by Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell.

We’re back at Aix-en-Provence for this week’s Sunday Opera (11/3 3:00 p.m.) and Jean-Philippe Rameau’s “Samson” featuring Jarrett Ott in the title role.

The Aix-en-Provence Festival is the source for our next Sunday Opera (10/27 3:00 p.m.) with their production of Mozart’s “La clemenza di Tito.”

It’s off to the Aix-en-Provence Festival for this week’s Sunday Opera (10/20 3:00 p.m.) and their production of “Madama Butterfly.”

We’re off to the Bayreuth Festival on this week’s Sunday Opera for Richard Wagner’s strange tale of love, “Tristan und Isolde.” Why is it strange? Five deaths and immeasurable heartache result from the wrong two people being given a love potion.

We’re happy to be back at the Los Angeles Opera for this week’s Sunday Opera (10/6 3:00 p.m.) and their production Puccini’s “Turandot.” Although a problematic opera, it has still been popular since its premier in 1926, two years after Puccini’s death.

We’re pleased to be getting operas from LA Opera again, and on this week’s Sunday Opera (9/29 3:00 p.m.), we’ve got a double bill of operas that received excellent reviews this past March: "Highway 1, USA" by William Grant Still and "The Dwarf" by Alexander von Zemlinsky.

Join us for a trip to the Bavarian State Opera on this week’s Sunday Opera (9/22 3:00 p.m.) and their recent production of Tchaikovsky’s “Pique Dame” ("The Queen of Spades") which had its world premiere in St. Petersburg on December 7, 1890. The opera will be followed by a nearly complete performance of Tchaikovsky's incidental music to "The Snow Maiden."