Upsoming and Noteworthy

The Merry Widow is one of the most popular stage works ever written

In 1780 Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, wanted a new opera for a court carnival, and Mozart and his librettist Giambattista Varesco got the job. The…

Jean-Phillipe Rameau was a prolific French composer from the early to mid 18th c. he is best known for his harpsichord pieces and his at least 31 operas,…

For Episode 290 of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award winning program Between the Keys, The Classical Network’s Artist-in-Residence Jed Distler…

On Wednesday, 12-12 at noon we'll hear students from the Curtis Institute of Music in Brahms' Piano Quintet in f minor and Alan Shulman's Theme &…

In the mid 1950's Leonard Bernstein addressed the question of when is a work a musical comedy, or when is it an opera? He took the example of South…