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We’ve got two contemporary operas for Christmas on this week’s Sunday Opera (12/22 3:00 p.m.) as we begin with Jake Heggie’s 2016 version of “It’s a Wonderful Life” and continue with Ricky Ian Gordon’s setting of Gail Rock’s beloved novel, “The House Without a Christmas Tree.”

It was a wonderful surprise when I once again got emails requesting what has become a New Year’s tradition on the Sunday Opera. I’m rather pleased to once again offer a European tradition on this week’s Sunday Opera (12/29 3:00 p.m.) as we prepare you for your New Year’s celebrations with Johann Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus.”

41 years ago on a Thursday evening, the first presentation of The Dress Circle aired, and on this week’s program (2/16 7:00 p.m.), we’re going to celebrate that inauspicious beginning with songs from some of the musicals that were playing around the time our program began.

In the past, we’ve “marched” into March, but we’ve decided to “Parade into March” on this week’s Dress Circle (3/9 7:00 p.m.) with songs from a variety of musicals from stage and screen. We’ve done a program of parades before, but this time, the titles must contain the word “parade.”

A Tempo this Saturday (1/25 at 2 pm) features a conversation with cast and creative team members of Opera Philadelphia's upcoming production of the opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, about the opera, its composer and reclaiming their place in musical history.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (5/17 at 2 pm) features two contemporary settings of this hymn.

Host Rob Kapilow continues his survey of great music from the American songbook on this episode Monday (5/12 at 8 pm)

A Tempo looks ahead to Opera Philadelphia's 2025-2026 season, and features an interview with the Lehigh Valley teen who won this year's Poetry Out Loud national championships.

A Tempo revisits Min Kwon's "America/Beautiful" project, which features more than 70 variations on the theme of America the Beautiful.

Join us for an afternoon of the music of Richard Strauss on this week’s Sunday Opera (3/9 3:00 p.m.) and his opera completed in 1940, “Die Liebe der Danae” (“The Love of Danae”). The opera is in three acts with the final act containing what Strauss considered to be some of his finest music.