Opera Wednesday

This week, the Minnesota Opera came out with its schedule for the 2018-19 season. It is, quite frankly, more interesting than some of the other, larger opera companies are offering. For example, I thought that both the Met and the Lyric of Chicago had very safe programs for the coming season, but there's a little adventure to the Minnesota lineup.

In honor of that, let's look at one of those operas on the schedule. Here's Angela Gheorghiu singing "Che il bel sogno di Doretta" from of Puccini's lesser-performed operas, La rondine. This performance was at the Metropolitan Opera in 2009; Marco Armiliato is the conductor.