It’s a scorcher out there, cher public, at least in New York, so perhaps some of you will want to stay inside where it’s cool, and enjoy a Saturday afternoon chat, where things are bound to heat up. A few suggestions for you listening pleasure, after the jump.

Lyric Opera of Chicago WAGNER Lohengrin – Johan Botha (Lohengrin), Emily Magee (Elsa), Michaela Schuster (Ortrud), Greer Grimsley (Telramund), Georg Zeppenfeld (King Henry), Lester Lynch (Herald); Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

NPR World Of Opera: GIUSEPPE VERDI: Ernani Teatro Communale, Bologna Teatro Communale Orchestra Roberto Polastri, conductor CAST: Rudy Park (Ernani); Dimitra Theodossiou (Elvira); Ferruccio Furlanetto (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva); Marco De Felice (Don Carlo)

London Royal Albert Hall PROM 2011 GUILLAUME TELL Opera in quattro atti di Victor-Joseph-Etienne de Jouy e Hippolyte Bis dal dramma Wilhelm Tell di Friedrich Schiller musica di Gioachino Rossini – esecuzione in forma di concerto – Guillaume Tell: Michele Pertusi ; Arnold Melcthal: John Osborn;  Walter Furst: Matthew Rose;  Melcthal: Frédéric Caton;  Jemmy: Elena Xanthoudakis;  Gesler: Nicolas Courjal;  Rodolphe: Carlo Bosi;  Roudi: Celso Albelo;  Leuthold: Mark Stone;  Mathilde: Malyn Byström;  Hedwige: Patricia Bardon;  Un cacciatore Davide Malvestio. Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted bt Antonio Pappano

Jules Massenet: “Hérodiade” Mit Carmen Giannattasio (Salome), Julia Gertseva (Herodiade), Philippe Rouillon (Herode), Zoran Todorovich (Jean), Petri Lindroos (Phanuel).  Chor und Orchester der Flämischen Oper, Dirigent: Dmitri Jurowski (aufgenommen im Februar 2011 in der Flämischen Oper in Gent)

Giuseppe Verdi La Traviata Opéra en trois actes sur un livret de Francesco Maria Piave d’après La Dame aux camélias d’Alexandre Dumas fils. Direction musicale Louis Langrée. Violetta Valéry: Natalie Dessay; Giorgio Germont: Ludovic Tézier; Alfredo Germont: Charles Castronovo.

Details on these and other webcasts may be found at the indispensable Operacast, and you all know where to find La Casa della Cieca.