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This week's program begins with Armienta's opera based on the story of "Zorro" as he rights wrongs in southern California in the 19th century. We'll continue out trip with Spanish music after the opera with an excerpt from a Zarzuela entitled "Los Gavilanes" and two orchestral works by Joaquin Rodrigo and Enrique Granados.

The Classical Network in Concert this Monday (11/16) offers selections from past broadcasts of performances by our diverse range of musical partners.

Opera Lafayette performs Philador's Les Femmes Vengees on The Lyric Stage Sunday (11/12 at 8 pm).

A Tempo Saturday (10/28 at 7 pm) features a conversation with A. Brad Schwartz, whose discussion at the West Windsor Arts Council’s War of the Worlds Anniversary ‘Broadcast Bash,’ will discuss how the Orson Welles’s 1938 Broadcast foreshadowed some of the same concerns about the power of media to spread misinformation being considered today.

We're looking at ten songs from the "ABBA" musical "Chess" on this week's Dress Circle from three recordings: The original concept recording, the Broadway cast recording, and The 2008 Royal Albert Hall concert recording to sample the score in honor of National Chess Day.

We're staying at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts this week for Puccini's "Wild West" opera, "La Fanciulla del West." After the opera, we'll fill the afternoon with more music inspired by "the west" from composers like Meredith Willson and Antonin Dvorak.

This weeks' Sunday Opera is actually two one-act operas by George Benjamin followed by a grand ballet, We'll begin with "Picture a Day Like This" followed by a retelling of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" entitled "Into the Little Hill." After the opera, we turn to Prokofiev and his delightful ballet "Cinderella."

A Tempo this week (11/25) features a conversation with New Jersey Symphony President and CEO Gabriel van Aalst about the continued impact of the pandemic on the orchestra and the resulting cuts made to this season.

We're heading back to the NCPA for a visiting production by the Bayreuth Opera and Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman." We'll continue our trip to the sea after the opera with a one-act opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams based on Synge's "Riders to the Sea" as well as a few other works including a brilliantly irreverent adaption of the "Dutchman" overture by Paul Hindemith entitled "Overture to the Flying Dutchman as Played at Sight by a Second-Rate Spa Orchestra at the Village Well at 7 o'Clock in the Morning."

This week's opera is by Rhianna Giddens and Michael Abels and is based on the memoir of Omar Ibn Said, a slave who was abducted from Africa when he was 37 and taken to the slave market in Charleston, SC.