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Alexander Toradze and PostClassical Ensemble explore the Stravinsky Piano Concerto

This week we turn back to 1965 and a recording of Bellini's Bel Canto classic "Norma" starring Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, John Alexander, Richard Cross, and Yvonne Minton.

We're off to Rome Opera and Bellini's tale of love and madness set during England's Civil War.

Berg's tale of a destitute soldier who is abused by his captain, suffers through medical experimentation, and ultimately succumbs to his mistrust for his partner causing him to drown, "Wozzeck," is this week's opera from the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.

A Tempo Saturday (9/23) featured a conversation with New York Theatre Ballet Artistic Director Steven Melendez and composer David K. Israel about Melendez's "Letters to My Father" series, and about a new documentary following Melendez's path from homeless shelter to professional ballet.

This program looks at some of the musicals that opened in New York in June (the list is far from extensive) , and we'll be focusing on several early shows in our playlist that begins in 1909 and ends in 2011.

In the Middle East, the origins of traditional dishes like hummus are the subject of contentious debate across cultures and borders. But Israeli food writer Vered Guttman suggests that these culinary similarities are reason for hope.

UCLA's annual report on Hollywood diversity finds a mixed bag. While people of color are being hired more in key categories, the study shows a film industry disinvesting in women.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with scholar Safiya Noble about how advancements in artificial intelligence could further perpetuate biases in society.

The best of Bora Chung's new stories impart a feeling of disorientation, evoking worlds that seem at first like utopias only to disclose, upon deeper inspection, dystopias.