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We’re featuring one of the most often augmented operas on this week’s Sunday Opera (8/25 3:00 p.m.) when we turn to the La Scala production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Don Carlo.”

While we were working on a previous program, we got the idea for a playlist of songs from the musicals about "dreams," and we've mined fifteen musicals from stage and screen to fill that list.

Dorothy Fields came from a fantastic showbusiness family, and her career as a musical lyricist and book-writer lasted nearly five decades. We're going to celebrate her talents on this program with songs from fourteen of her shows, many of which feature standards from the over 400 songs she co-wrote,.

We've combined the New York musical openings for July and August (for some reason) and arrived at a playlist of 11 shows spanning 153 years of Broadway history. We've also decided to turn to the overtures or opening orchestral pieces to give a fuller sense of these scores.

We're celebrating the composing skills of James "Jimmy" McHugh who wrote over 500 songs during his career in the early part of the 20th century, may of them still considered standards. He wrote for stage and screen as well as well as many "pop" standards.

Broadway lovers are all buzzing since it was announced that Kristen Chenoweth would be coming back in a new Stephen Schwartz musical during the 2025-2026 season. Starring opposite F. Murray Abraham, she'll be Jackie Siegel in a musical adaptation of the documentary "The Queen of Versailles" which seems to be about the Siegels and their difficulties in trying to build their $100,000,000 home in Orlando, Florida. To that end, we'll be sampling songs from many of her stage appearances such as "Wicked" as well as a few of her solo CDs.

This broadcast Monday (7/29 at 8 pm, with an encore Saturday 8/3 at 2 pm) pays tribute to Chou, the first Chinese-born American composer to achieve international acclaim.

A concerto by Mendelssohn, some Brahms and Scriabin, and a tango by Juan Jose Castro.