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WQED-FM 2024-25 Season Rebroadcast: Armida
Saturday, September 27, 2025
1:00 PM
WQED-FM

Pittsburgh Opera 2024–25 Season Performances on WQED-FM 89.3 and wqed.org/fm Pittsburgh Opera, in collaboration with Classical WQED-FM 89.3, will broadcast the 202425 season productions, giving listeners an opportunity to enjoy the operas all over again. 

Armida

To prevent the capture of Jerusalem by the knights of the First Crusade, The Prince of Darkness has sent the enchantress Armida into the world to seduce the Christian heroes and turn them from their duty. The bravest of these, Rinaldo, has fallen under Armida's spell. But, to her surprise, she becomes enchanted by him as well. She comes to love him so deeply that she cannot bring herself to destroy him. For both, duty clashes with desire. As war rages around them, will love conquer them both?