Tonight, we reach into our Listener Mailbag, answering the question: “What would be the handful of operas, from the nineteenth century to the present, that you would consider the most representative if you were tracking an evolution of the form?” Check out our team's thoughts...

Then, last month in the New York Times, Anthony Tommasini called it “the best opera recording ever”. We’ll tell you what is, and what we think of it...

And then, it’s the Two Minute Drill. You get all your opera headlines from the past week and our hot takes on them...

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