Upcoming and Noteworthy

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

A Tempo Saturday (5/16 at 7 pm) features a conversation with the incoming General Director of Opera Delaware.

Host Ethan Sperry shares recordings of the Portland State University Chamber Choir, which held its first concert on May 19, 1976, this Sunday (5/17 at 2 pm) on Sounds Choral.

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.

For a few years after 2020 hit, people became obsessed with once again being able to travel. Now, with the price of oil and gas (and rising prices in general), many have started to bemoan the fact that traveling might not be in the cards once again this year. To help remedy this, we’re looking at songs about traveling on this week’s Dress Circle (5/17 7:00 p.m.) in the hopes we can vicariously ease the angst many are feeling.

As Westminster Choir College looks ahead to its 100th Anniversary Chapel Service this month, Tempo Saturday (5/9 at 7 pm) features a conversation about the concert and the college's history.

An eclectic mix of piano works, this Friday (5/8, rebroadcast Saturday 5/9)

Sounds Choral this Sunday (5/10 at 2 pm) pays tribute to mothers and grandmothers.

We’re turning to two of Richard Strauss’ lesser-known one-act operas on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/10 3:00 p.m.): “Daphne” and “Feuersnot” (“The Need for Fire” or “Lack of Fire”).

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.