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Front Row Washington: Cambini-Paris Quartet

Cambini-Paris Quartet performs music by Mozart and others in a concert presented by the Phillips Collection.

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Wolf Trap Opera Presents "Roméo et Juliette"

Wolf Trap Opera's 2018 production of Roméo et Juliette is available for free online viewing on ClassicalWETA.org.

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John Banther is an on-air host and production manager at Classical WETA. He can be heard Monday evenings, when he hosts our weekly Front Row Washington broadcast.

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'Rigoletto' In Vegas And The Pleasures Of The Metropolitan Opera

July 17, 2019

A recent Pop Culture Happy Hour trip to New York took the team to see Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera. A jester in a rat pack? We saw it.

Video Of An Uber Driver In South Africa Singing Opera Goes Viral

July 13, 2019

Menzi Mngoma is hoping that the exposure will help him further his dream of becoming an international singing sensation who doesn't have to drive for Uber.

How Birdsong Has Long Inspired Classical Music

July 12, 2019

Did you know the cuckoo bird shaped pieces by famous composers like Handel, Beethoven and Mahler?

Opposites Attract: Two Violin Concertos In The Hands Of A Master

June 24, 2019

Augustin Hadelich dazzles in an album of odd bedfellows, which pairs Johannes Brahms' romantic war horse with György Ligeti's modernist stunner.

'Stonewall' Opera Marks Uprising's 50th Anniversary

June 22, 2019

New York City Opera has commissioned Stonewall, a new opera premiering one week before the 50th anniversary of the riots that sparked the modern gay-rights movement.

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