In this Saturday's cartoon, Bugs Bunny plays a terrible houseguest trying to push all of Yosemite Sam's buttons.

Richard Wagner’s Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin opens the 1936 Disney cartoon called "Mickey’s Grand Opera." Later in the cartoon, it's "Bella Figlia Dell’Amore," from Verdi’s Rigoletto

Gioacchino Rossini’s Overture for his opera William Tell has been featured in numerous cartoons, including this 1947 Walter Lantz "Wally Walrus" cartoon in which a flippered maestro tries to wake up his sleepy symphony orchestra.

For this week's cartoon, we have selected Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" from Die Walkure, which is also today's Metropolitan Opera broadcast.

For this week’s Saturday morning cartoon, we have chosen Charles Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette.

Get your buckets out. This week’s Saturday cartoon is Paul Dukas’s symphonic poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

For this Saturday’s cartoon we have selected the aria "O mio babbino caro" from Giacomo Puccini’s opera, Gianni Schicchi. 

Spring is just around the corner, or at least it felt that way this past week in New York, so it seemed natural to celebrate the changing of the seasons with Mendelssohn’s Fruhlingslied (Spring Song).

Franz von Suppe’s Poet and Peasant Overture is featured in the 1935 Popeye cartoon “The Spinach Overture.”

French composer Claude Debussy's Suite bergamasque may be one of his most famous piano suites, but its third movement, Clair de Lune, unfortunately landed on the Fantasia cutting room floor.

For this week's cartoon, we have selected the Beautiful Galatea overture by Franz von Suppe. This piece can be heard in the 1948 Looney Tunes cartoon Long-Haired Hare.

Brahms's Hungarian Dances are featured in the 1943 Warner Brothers cartoon Pigs in a Polka, based on the story of the Three Little Pigs.

This Saturday’s cartoon features the Overture to Wagner’s Tannhauser. The music is included in the 1957 Warner Brothers cartoon, What’s Opera, Doc?

This week’s cartoon is the 1946 Tom & Jerry ’toon The Cat Concerto featuring Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp Minor.

The clown Pagliacci sings this aria in Leoncavallo's opera, but it has also been commandeered to express sadness and frustration throughout popular culture.

In the 1959 Warner Brothers cartoon Baton Bunny, Maestro Bugs Bunny won't tolerate a coughing audience member.

To celebrate the launch of our new Operavore stream Saturday, we’re featuring several animated takes on the aria “Largo al factotum,” from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville.

Because, really, is Christmas truly complete unless you’ve watched for the billionth time A Charlie Brown Christmas? We think not.

This Saturday’s cartoon features the aria “Un bel di,” from Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, which just so happens to be Saturday’s Metropolitan Opera broadcast.

For this week’s Saturday Morning cartoon we get into the holiday spirit with music from the second act of Tchaikovsky’s beloved Nutcracker ballet.