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In this rarely revived opera, Rossini reuses many of his own tunes, but modern audiences have embraced it. This production, from Rossini's hometown, places the main character in a mental ward, where he is tormented with visions of the wife he sentenced to death.

Mozart's enigmatic story of a serial womanizer has both comic and dramatic elements.

The New Orleans trumpeter's newest CD, Choices, delves into choices we make as individuals and as a society. He returned to his hometown to record the project, and continues to ask questions about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival, now released as an album, is another exciting evolution in Joni Mitchell's notoriously chameleonic career.

Andrade was a consummate nightclub artist who sang torridly of love in a husky voice. A fixture in her home country since the '60s, she became a sensation in the U.S. in the 1990s.

Drummer Johnathan Blake has always carried a musical torch for his father, the late violinist John Blake, Jr. With a forthcoming Blue Note album, 'Passage,' he pays his most direct homage yet.

The legendary crooner, who died July 21, told Terry Gross in 1991 he never got tired of singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco": "I'm very grateful for that song."

Philadelphia's most heralded jazz educator, Lovett Hines, is 80 today. So we gathered birthday wishes from just a few of his admirers, including Christian McBride, Sumi Tonooka and Jaleel Shaw.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert presents Dalia Stasevska's debut on the podium — leading Sibelius' Symphony No. 5, a recent work by Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi, and Poulenc’s Organ Concerto, featuring Wayne Marshall.

From the free-jazz firebrands Irreversible Entanglements to the smooth-jazz veteran Brian Simpson — it's all in a week's offerings at Moment's Notice, our guide to Philadelphia's live jazz scene.