Siegfried, the third opera in Wagner's "Ring" cycle, is heard in a performance from the 2010-11 season of the San Francisco Opera. Tenor Jay Hunter Morris sings the title role.

Our presentation of the San Francisco Opera's buzzed-about production of Wagner's Ring continues with Die Walküre. Here the focus of Wagner's drama shifts from the gods to humans.

Director Francesca Zambello's imaginative production of Das Rheingold for the San Francisco Opera opens the complete four-opera Ring cycle. The opera made a splash when it opened in June.

Puccini's story of longing, lust, murder and suicide never fails to enthrall. Today, we hear an April 7, 1962 performance with Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli.

This week we take a trip back through the Met archives, to a February 15, 1958 broadcast of Puccini's La Bohème. Recently remastered, the recording features Licia Albanese as Mimì and Carlo Bergonzi as Rodolfo.