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This week, the Metropolitan Opera presents MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Giacomo Puccini's heartbreaking tale, in three acts, of innocence, betrayal, and sacrifice.…

Join us on Sunday, January 25th at 1 pm for a Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert re-broadcast of a Verizon Hall performance first heard in December of…

WRTI's Jazz Hot 11 is a weekly countdown of your favorite new jazz releases in rotation. This week's Hot 11: 1. Harold Mabern - My Favorite Things - RIGHT…

Both Sergei Rachmaninoff and Richard Strauss had long and fruitful relationships with The Philadelphia Orchestra. Rachmaninoff’s began in 1909 with his…

The Free Library of Philadelphia's One Book, One Philadelphia selection for 2014 is The Yellow Birds, written by Kevin Powers, an Iraq War veteran. He…

BalletX continues its seventh season this week with its Winter Series, featuring two world premieres. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, the company, founded…

It's not often that we hear about a work for harp getting its world premiere. So it's rather special when it does happen. And, when the work is a harp…

J.S. Bach’s masterpieces, well-known to many listeners, include his Mass in B minor, the Goldberg Variations, and The Well-Tempered Clavier. However, as…

Singing at The Metropolitan Opera rarely means just returning to "business as usual." But - for soprano Renee Fleming, the worldwide audience for the…

It's a story as old as love, and a computer before there were computers, on Now Is the Time, Saturday, February 8th at 9 pm Eastern on the all-classical…