Upcoming and Noteworthy

This is the first of three programs looking at some of the singers who supplied the singing voices for movies stars like Rita Hayworth, Christopher Plummer, Rossano Brazzi, Esther Williams, and more.

This week's opera is "Samson et Dalila" from London's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden featuring SeokJonk Baek in the title role and Elina Garanca as Dalila.

Zemlinsky may have written the opera to make a point about Alma Mahler. Listen Sunday (8/14) at 8 pm.

Music and conversation with the Grammy-nominated pianist and educator.

This encore broadcast of What Makes it Great this Friday (8/5) features the Mendelssohn Octet with the Aeolus Quartet.

Simon Keenleyside and Anna Pirozzi star in Verdi's Macbeth from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

This program looks at some of the musicals that have opened in New York during the month of August in a survey covering 115 years.