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Bella Sandella/What's the best way to listen to Saturday matinee broadcasts of The Metropolitan Opera? On WRTI, of course! Join us on Saturdays at 1 PM for the entire 2021/2022 season of opera broadcasts starting on December 4th at 1 PM. After a year of encore broadcasts, our live Met Opera broadcasts are back and better than ever with host Debra Lew Harder and commentator Ira Siff. -
Join us on Sunday, Dec. 5th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Dec. 6th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when conductor Nicholas McGegan—best known as a baroque and classical specialist—will be on the podium to conduct this 2018 concert broadcast featuring music not only of the baroque era, but also later re-imaginings of that past.
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Musicians who are all faculty members of the Curtis Institute of Music's Summerfest performed Mendelssohn’s Trio in D minor for flute, cello, and piano… -
It’s hard to believe that Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety,” was performed only twice by The Philadelphia Orchestra before the…
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You know Freda Payne's voice from the smash hit “Band of Gold,” which topped the pop charts here and in the U.K. in 1970. During her long career, she has…
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Praised by The New York Times for his “rich, glowing voice and elegant legato,” and by The Wall Street Journal as “a powerful bass-baritone,” South…
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You’ve heard her stunning harp solos in Philadelphia Orchestra concerts. Now, principal harpist Elizabeth Hainen joins us LIVE from the WRTI Performance…
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Hailed as “radiant” by The New York Times and “ethereal" by Newsweek Polska, the award-winning early music ensemble Peregrina, from Basel, Switzerland,…
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Join us Sunday from 4 to 6 pm for another virtuoso program of orchestral works from the extraordinary group of young instrumentalists making up one of the…
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We keep one composer and swap out two from last month’s American Romantics program on Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection. The two new composers are…
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Bob Dorough, who was famous for all of his beloved Schoolhouse Rock! compositions, was also a seasoned jazz musician for decades. He died on April 23,…
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WRTI weekend host Jeff Duperon’s love for music started at birth. Being a New Orleans native, it came with the territory. Jeff was raised with all types…
