This episode of OperaTalk! examines Verdi's "Falstaff," the composer's last opera and comic masterpiece.

Carlisle Floyd, composer/librettist of "Susanna" and "The Passion of Jonathan Wade," is considered by many to be the foremost living American opera composer. This program profiles Carlisle Floyd and "Of Mice and Men," his evocative work based on John Steinbeck's classic novella.

San Diego Opera's Nicolas Reveles hosts this engaging introduction to Mozart's comic masterpiece, "Cosi Fan Tutte."

Nicolas Reveles introduces viewers to Englebert Humperdinck's magical opera, "Hansel and Gretel," based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.