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Star performers at the famed New York opera house, including soprano Anna Netrebko and conductor Valery Gergiev, have been closely associated with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On her new album, the opera star suggests Mother Nature has a lot to teach us, if we'd only listen.

Invited to write a new work for Houston's Rothko Chapel, the composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey created a work that is both intimate and vast, like those Mark Rothko paintings.

A number of Russian stars from the performing arts world are using their voices and international platforms to denounce the invasion of Ukraine and speak up against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Join us on Sunday, April 14 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, April 15 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you an encore presentation of a concert from the 2021-22 season, with Nathalie Stutzmann conducting works by Franz Schubert and Missy Mazzoli.

Opera and cabaret comingle when two odd bedfellows bring music by Philip Glass, The Bangles, Peter Gabriel and Christoph Willibald Gluck to a "tiny apartment" in Manhattan.

Join us on Sunday, February 20th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, February 21st at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear highlights from WRTI's new series of Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcasts.

Though the trumpeter Lee Morgan was killed in 1972, his legacy was well maintained. At least it seemed so, until one fan discovered last year that Morgan's gravesite seemed to have vanished.

The incandescent, influential funk musician Betty Davis died on Wednesday. She made a string of albums in the mid-1970s that helped to shape stylish, Afrofuturist strains of funk and hip-hop.

The celebrated jazz singer performs a selection of popular early jazz standards at the GB Juke Joint Studio.