Upcoming and Noteworthy

The first of three programs surveying Liszt’s complete piano etudes, this Friday (4/3, rebroadcast Saturday 4/4)

This week's Sounds Choral (4/5 at 2 pm) surveys a selection of hymns, spirituals, cantatas and other works written for Easter.

We have a bit of a medieval fantasy on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/5 3:00 p.m.) in Giacomo Meyerbeer’s 1817 work “Romilda e Costanza” which deals with the bumpy road to love for the Prince of Provence. This is Meyerbeer’s fourth opera and the first to be composed for an Italian theatre, the Teatro Nuovo in Padua.

Happy April, and although the month is starting to look like one that’s unsettled as much as March was, we’re still going to celebrate just a few of the shows that opened in April on this week’s Dress Circle (3/5 7:00 p.m.). We’re only looking at eleven musicals this week as we focus on overtures and opening numbers, but we’re still covering 100 years of Broadway history.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (3/29 at 2 pm) features a variety of settings of this Latin text.

A wide range of music this Friday (3|27, rebroadcast Saturday 3|28)

The source material for this week’s Sunday Opera (3/29 3:00 p.m.) has been used in well over 70 different projects. In the past, we heard one treatment by Giovanni Simone Mayr in his opera “Ginevra di Scozia,” but this time, we’re turning to one of Handel’s “Italian operas” that he wrote for London in 1735, “Ariodante.” Our recording comes from 1978 and features a stellar cast in this opera that is a tale of love, betrayal, and redemption, and it explores themes of jealousy, deception, and the triumph of good over evil.

Since we're running out of "March," this week's Dress Circle (3/29 7:00 p.m.) is our last one celebrating Women's History Month, and we're turning to Broadway Anthems specifically written for female characters from twelve shows.

Our annual anniversary program, this Friday (3/20, rebroadcast Saturday 3/21)

We’re turning to a 19th century opera from the British Isles, and it’s not by Gilbert and Sullivan, on this week’s Sunday Opera (3/22 3:00 p.m.).This time, it’s by Irish composer William Vincent Wallace, and it’s the story of the water Nymph Lurline and her love for the mortal Count Rupert.