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American piano music this Friday (7/3, rebroadcast Saturday 7/4)

Sounds Choral hosts this Sunday (7/5 at 2 pm) share some of their favorite American music.

We’re off to the Paris Opera for this week’s Sunday Opera (7/5 3:00 p.m.) and a production of one of Handel’s Italian operas “Ariodante” from September of 2025. The source material for “Ariodante” has been used in well over 70 different projects. In the past, we heard one treatment by Giovanni Simone Mayr on the Sunday Opera in his opera “Ginevra di Scozia.” “Ariodante” is a tale of love, betrayal, and redemption, and it explores themes of jealousy, deception, and the triumph of good over evil.

Can you believe it’s July already? (We’ve heard that just about every month so far.) Well, it is. July always seems to come around about this time of year, and to celebrate that certainty on the Dress Circle (7/5 7:00 p.m.), we’re going to be sampling a few of the shows that opened in New York this month through overtures and opening numbers.

Celebrate American. Piano Music in all of its glorious diversity, this Friday (6/26, rebroadcast Saturday 6/27)

Sounds Choral this Sunday (6/28 at 2 pm) features an interview with British conductor Suzi Digby about her ensemble's latest release.

Milan’s La Scala is our destination for this week’s Sunday Opera (6/28 3:00 p.m.) and their recent production of Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” a 1934 opera based on the 1865 novella “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District: by Nikolai Leskov with a libretto by the composer and Alexander Preis.

Once again, summer came early with two heatwaves already and a third one looming in the next week. To cool things down a bit, we’re turning to the musicals for songs about “summer” on this week’s Dress Circle (6/28 7:00 p.m.), and we’ve been able to cull together fourteen pieces even though, oddly enough, there aren’t as many songs about summer as you might have thought.

The French pianist Pascal Rogé featured this Friday (6/19, rebroadcast Saturday 6/20)

A Tempo Saturday (6/28) features a conversation with the artistic directors of the Chelsea Music Festival, which this year is celebrating music and storytelling by American composers, musicians, artists, chefs and other creative forces.