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

Stanislaw Moniuszko has been dubbed the father of Polish national music, but only a few of his works have been seen outside of Poland where they are performed regularly. On this week’s Sunday Opera (5/18 3:00 p.m.) we’ll hear one of them, his “The Haunted Manor” (“Straszny Dwor”), and although it is labeled as a romantic comedy, it’s considered to be one of the finest examples of patriotic Polish themed music.

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.

We’re featuring an American opera on this week’s Sunday Opera (3/16 3:00 p.m.) in Lori Laitman’s 2016 treatment of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” featuring a libretto by David Mason. Hawthorne’s 1850 novel is a moral allegory centering on Hester Prynne’s affair with the Reverend Dimmesdale, the birth of her illegitimate daughter, Pearl, and her strength and determination to make a life for them in the face of hatred and prejudice.

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.

This concert Friday (1/31 at 8 pm) also includes works by William Grant Still, Billy Childs and Samuel Coleridge Taylor.

Music Director Xian Zhang leads the orchestra in works by Igor Stravinsky, Richard Strauss and Chen Yi in this broadcast Tuesday (3/4 at 8 pm)

This week's program on Sunday (3/2 at 2 pm) features choral works for multiple choirs.