Judas Maccabaeus
Enjoy Music of the Baroque Ensemble's performance of Judas Maccabaeus by Handel.
Afternoon at the Opera
Saturdays at noon on WILL-FM
Make sure your weekend includes an Afternoon at the Opera and enjoy timeless pieces from all the greats, including Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Bellini, and Rossini. Join us Saturdays at noon on WILL-FM 90.9, your only on-air source for opera in central Illinois.
La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus)
Enjoy LA Opera’s performance of Mozart’s rarely performed final masterpiece.
Orfeo ed Euridice
The Rome Opera Ensemble grabs the audience’s attention from the very start of this monumental opera and does not let go until the final chord rings out.
Adina
Enjoy this operatic farsa in one act performed by the Rossini Opera Festival Ensemble.
Andrea Chénier
The Royal Opera House brings Giordano's French Revolution opera thrillingly alive.
Billy Budd
The Royal Opera House gives Britten's rich and intense opera a stage.
La forza del destino
Verdi's sweepingly ambitious opera on war, religion, love and fate is brought to life by the Royal Opera House.
The Queen of Spades
The Royal Opera House takes on Tchaikovsky's most ambitious opera.
Simon Boccanegra
The Royal Opera House explores long-held secrets, treachery, and the father-daughter relationship in this Verdi opera.
Siegfried
The Royal Opera House performs the third opera in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen epic cycle.
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.