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This week's Sunday Opera features an afternoon of the lovely music of Franz Lehar. The first piece is "The Merry Widow" from the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Following that, is a recording of Lehar's "The Land of Smiles" featuring Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Nicolai Gedda.

This week's opera is Busoni's "Doktor Faust," a seldomly done work featuring Dietrich Fischer-Deskau as the narrator and Dietrich Henschel in the title role.

Our second look at the story of Manon Lescaut continues from the Teatro Regio on this week’s Sunday Opera (8/3 3:00 p.m.) with Massanet’s treatment of the story by Antoine Prevost. In this one, Manon doesn’t die in the wilderness or desert of Louisiana, she dies of exhaustion on the road to Le Havre to be deported.

Between the Keys' celebrates its tenth anniversary with an all-Bach program this Friday (3/21, rebroadcast Saturday 3/22)

Pressure cookers were once a common household appliance, but they fell out of favor in the U.S. as people turned to frozen dinners and microwaves.

Tom Cole is a senior editor on NPR's Arts Desk. He develops, edits, produces, and reports on stories about art, culture, music, film, and theater for NPR's news magazines Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and All Things Considered. Cole has held these responsibilities since February 1990.

At the very dawn of color television, the National Geographic Society began its successful run of eagerly anticipated specials. These specials really were…

Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Children of all ages! May I have your attention, please? Step right up for selections from “The Greatest Show on…

English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia.

This week's opera is Humperdinck's 1875 "fairytale" opera about a Goose-Girl who is in the control of a witch, but when that spell is broken, she doesn't live happily ever after even though she has found the love of a prince.