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We’re back at Covent Garden for this week’s Sunday Opera (8/24 3:00 p.m.) and the Royal Opera House production of Puccini’s “Turandot” featuring Sondra Raadvanovsky in the titular role and Seokjong Baek as Calaf.

We’re staying at the Royal Opera House for this week’s Sunday Opera (8/17 3:00 p.m.) and a double bill of operas by Leonard Bernstein, his 1952 work “Trouble in Tahiti” and the sequel, “A Quiet Place,” written 31 years later in 1983. The story was initially based on the troubled relationship of Bernstein’s parents.

We’re off to Denmark for an opera “double bill” on this week’s Sunday Opera (9/21 3:00 p.m.) with two rather diverse works: Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” and Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins.”

Conductor Harold Rosenbaum, founder and conductor of The New York Virtuoso Singers, joins Sounds Choral's panel of rotating hosts this Sunday (10/5 at 2 pm, with a rebroadcast Tuesday 10/7 at 3 pm).

We’re off to the Bayreuth Festival on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/16 3:00 p.m.) for the first of three works by Wagner: “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" which is about a 16th-century singing contest in Nuremberg where young knight Walther von Stolzing (Michael Spyres) hopes to win the hand of Eva Pogner (Christina Nilsson).

A Tempo Saturday (10/4) checks in with Stamford, Conn.-based Orchestra Lumos about programming works for the 250th anniversary of the U.S.

A Tempo Saturday (10/18 at 7 pm) looks at Eastman School of Music's plans to expand its media and film composition institute.

We’re showcasing another relatively forgotten opera on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/2 7:00 p.m.) but one that was incredibly popular when it premiered in 1900. About the only thing that’s remembered about Gustav Charpentier’s “Louise” is one aria for the title character titled “Depuis le jour” that appears on many operatic collections and concerts. This production comes from the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

A Tempo (10/25) gets a preview of the upcoming exhibit 'The Magical Flute: Beauty, Enchantment and Power' at the Musical Instrument Museum.

At Just For Laughs in Montreal, a series of events showcase up-and-coming talent — and has a history of giving comics their first big break. Here are 10 top performers from this year.