The Philadelphia Orchestra

This Sunday at 1 pm, WRTI’s Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast brings to the airwaves another sensational violinist, Nicola Benedetti, who joins…

America's top orchestras are programming little or no music by women. Philadelphia has now included two works by female composers. A month ago it had zero.

When the Philadelphia Orchestra announced that its 2017-18 subscription season would close with a semi-staged performance of Puccini’s Tosca, it generated…

Puccini’s opera Tosca has all the elements of a grand melodrama, including overwhelming passion, torture, and murder. But the character of Tosca is also…

This Sunday’s Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast on 90.1 brings us another first-ever Philadelphia Orchestra performance of a work by the…

June 11, 2018. If you attended The Philadelphia Orchestra’s performances of Bernstein’s Mass three years ago you get another chance to hear (and own) this…

Saint-Saëns' fifth and last piano concerto reflects his long career as a musician, composer and avid traveler. WRTI’s Susan Lewis has more on the…

[The Philadelphia Orchestra wraps up its 2018 Tour in Jerusalem. David Patrick Stearns has been covering the tour and we asked him, on this last stop, to…

Violinist Vadim Repin stepped in for Hilary Hahn this past April when she announced she was expecting her second child very soon, and then withdrew from…

Shortly after arriving in Tel Aviv, four musicians from The Philadelphia Orchestra, accompanied by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, visited Neve Shalom/Wahat…