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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).

We’re starting a series on this week’s Dress Circle (11/9 7:00 p.m.). (We hope.) with four musicals that were based on literary originals. Three novels and a play are the basis for this week’s playlist that begins with songs from “The Color Purple" and includes songs from a variety of sources for "Little Women," "Mary Poppins," and "Peter Pan."

This concert broadcast Monday (10/27) features music written for two 18th-century divas.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (10/26 at 2 pm) features an hour of psalm settings.

Sounds Choral Sunday (11/2 at 2 pm) features music by British composers.

We did our best to catalogue musicals that opened in New York for which some sort of recordings are available. November’s list has over 200 openings, and on this week’s Dress Circle (11/2 7:00 p.m.), we’re going to be sampling selections from a dozen of those shows spanning 131 years of Broadway history.

The final episode in seven programs devoted to the complete Chopin Mazurkas, this Friday (11/7 at 3 pm, rebroadcast Saturday 11/8 at 6 pm).

A Tempo (11/8) covers a recent conference on the connection between the arts and wellness.

Concertos by W.A. Mozart and John Foulds this Friday (11/28, rebroadcast Saturday 11/29)