In this hour-long special, Matt Aucoin, a composer and conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, looks at what he thinks are Verdi’s most under-appreciated gems.

This week's cartoon portrays one brilliant bug who makes his debut on Carnegie Hall's historic stage

Isabel Leonard recently joined Operavore's Naomi Lewin for performance and conversation in The Greene Space, along with special guests Matthew Polenzani, Anthony Roth Costanzo and Sherrill Milnes.

Arts audiences are becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, according to a new survey by the National Endowment for the Arts. Art forms including Latin music, jazz and dance performances saw modest upticks in attendance due in part to growing minority participation.

To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth WQXR is offering a week of music and commentary on the Italian composer's life and work. Here's a rundown.

For this week’s Saturday Morning Cartoon we offer up Charles Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette. 

This week's cartoon gives you the whole Ring in an extremely non-Wagnerian length -- two-and-a-half minutes.

This fall, WQXR brings the Royal Opera House from London's Covent Garden to New York airwaves along with a series of screenings in partnership with Symphony Space.

This week on Saturday Morning Cartoons we're featuring the musical genius behind Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, Carl Stalling.

When Béla Fleck came to the WQXR Café, curious staff members began asking about his repertoire. Would he be playing Scarlatti or Scruggs? A Bach invention or a bluegrass breakdown?

Tonight at 8 pm, join us as Marin Alsop becomes the first woman to conduct the Last Night in its 118-year history.

For this week’s cartoon, a set of Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms. Three of the dances (Nos. 5, 6, and 7) are featured in a 1943 Looney Tunes cartoon called “Pigs in a Polka."

The superstar violinist shares a wide variety of high holiday recordings that have special meaning for him, including several of his own performances.

For this Saturday’s cartoon, we present the traditional Irish song "Danny Boy." We play a beautiful performance by flautist James Galway, but another version not to be missed comes from an episode of the Muppet Show.

Listen as American conductor Marin Alsop, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and an 80-strong chorus explores Brahms’s 1868 masterpiece.

Labor Day does have its own body of festive holiday music but plenty of composers have addressed work in its myriad forms. Tell us what piece best exemplifies the working man and woman best.

Listen to Saturday's broadcast of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Mitsuko Uchida playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. Plus: Mariss Jansons conducts Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

For this week’s Saturday morning cartoon we present Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake. In 1981, Toei Animation used Tchaikovsky’s music in its anime film "Swan Lake."

Hear conductor Daniel Harding lead the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a program exploring the subtly different properties of the keys of C major and C minor.