The San Francisco Opera performs Stewart Wallace's The Bonesetter’s Daughter, a multi-generational tale of family secrets.  Based on the novel by Amy Tan, it is featured on Saturday at the Opera.

Verdi's Requiem, performed by the Los Angeles Opera, is featured this week on Saturday at the Opera.

The Los Angeles Opera performs Walter Braunfels' The Birds, a work based on the play The Birds by Greek playwright Aristophanes, this week on Saturday at the Opera.

Mozart's Ideomeneo, is a tale of a powerful king whose safe return from the Trojan War is effected only at terrible cost. This edition of Saturday at the Opera features a first-rate cast in a production by the San Francisco Opera.

This week, Saturday at the Opera presents the Houston Grand Opera's performance of Hector Berlioz’s two-act opera, Beatrice and Benedict, a rarely-performed love story adapted from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

San Francisco Opera mounts a rarity, Erich Wolfgang Korngold's 1920 opera Die Tote Stadt ("The Dead City"), the story of a man obsessed with the memory of his deceased wife.

Broadway heavyweights Patti Lupone and Audra McDonald star in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's searing 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

WQXR brings you one of the most talked-about opera productions of 2009, a broadcast of Katharina Wagner's staging of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, recorded at Germany's Bayreuth festival on July 29, 2009. The broadcast airs Saturday, October 10 at 1:00 p.m.