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Piano performances on period instruments, this Friday (5/15, rebroadcast Saturday 5/16)

Everyone needs a little fantasy from time to time, and on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/17 2026), we’ve got some in the guise of a libretto by Siegfried Wagner for his opera “an allem ist Hutchen Schuld!” (“Everything Is Little-Hat’s Fault!”). This fairytale opera about an invisible, mischievous goblin named “Little-Hat” or “Hattie,” was cobbled together from a number of the stories of The Brothers Grimm with a little Hans Christian Anderson thrown in.

With his various writing partners, Richard Rodgers composed over 40 musicals, and many of those shows contained ballets – some more than one, and on this week’s Dress Circle (5/10 7:00 p.m.) we’re going to look at two ballets from musicals Rodgers wrote with Lorenz Hart as well as a ballet he wrote to be performed by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Like all months, April is a month of many celebrations. We’ve already looked at shows that opened in 1965 in order to celebrate National 8-Track Tape Day – We are fully committed to our calendar art, and on this week’s Dress Circle (4/26 7:00 p.m.), we’ll be looking at something we think everyone needs right now: Songs of hope from the musicals as April is the National Month of Hope.

We’re going for Baroque again on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/3 3:00 p.m.) with a forgotten opera that is finally getting some much deserved recognition: Leonard Vinci’s “Artaserse,” an opera that premiered in Rome in 1730.

The Bucks County chamber ensemble performs Missy Mazzoli's Lies You Can Believe In on this broadcast Monday (4/6 at 8 pm).

This three-hour broadcast Monday (4/20 at 8 pm) features the opening concert of this year's Cutting Edge Concerts series, which took place in March, with music by Cuban and Cuban-American composers and women composers.

The Philadelphia-based ensemble explores the Renaissance Musician’s Arsenal in this concert broadcast Monday (4/27) at 8 pm. Follow along with the printed program.