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This week's Fanfare brings a whopping eight events to the table, including a performance from Yuja Wang and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a concert with Michelle Cann & Imani Winds, two operas in Don Giovanni and L'Amico Fritz and more.

"Opera is a collision, and it was conceived as a real innovation," says Anthony Roth Costanzo, leader of Opera Philadelphia, whose 2025-26 season was designed with those ideals in mind.

WRTI is proud to present the 2024-25 season of the Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcasts. Tune in every Saturday at 1 p.m. ET, at 90.1 FM, streaming at wrti.org, or on the WRTI Mobile App.

This year, we're spotlighting local nonprofits that are making a big difference in our community.

Classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa is a YouTube star. Reactions to her divisive and fiercely political Twitter account became the catalyst for a string of problems at the Toronto Symphony.

Early American composers could have shaken off their European sound and mined the rich trove of African American music. They didn't. And one historian believes we're worse off because of it.

Slingshot, VuHaus public radio stations and NPR Music's emerging artist series, spotlighted 40 artists over the course of the past 10 months. Now it's time for you to tell us your favorite.

The Icelandic composer talks about the creative forces behind her distinctive music, her presence in the movie Tár and the "dome of energy" that fuels her country's artistic productivity.

Bassist Christian McBride has formed a new band, Ursa Major, around an ideal of stylistic flexibility. It features younger players who grew up watching his peer group stretch, as he explains in this conversation with WRTI's Nate Chinen.

Forget the diva stereotype: Opera careers are tough, and often strict. But as concert halls reopen after months of shutdown, more than a few singers are showing newfound creativity.