Opera Video and Discussion presented by William Coble

• I Vespri Siciliani by Giuseppe Verdi on Thursday, March 17, 1 p.m.
  This opera of five acts by the Italian romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi is set to a French libretto by Charles Duveyrier and Augustin Eugène Scribe from their work Le duc d’Albe.
  It is based on a historical event, the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282. It was first performed at the Paris Opéra on June 13, 1855.
• Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose) Part 1 by Richard Strauss on Thursday, April 21, 1 p.m. This three-act comic opera was written by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac.