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Members of the Baltimore band perform live in the WVTF studio

Singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, veteran, and Fulbright Scholar performs live in the WVTF studio.

"Mr. Americana" recorded live in the WVTF studio

With a libretto based on “Alì Babà and the Forty Thieves,” the well-known and lively story from One Thousand and One Nights, Alì Babà was composed by Giovanni Bottesini, an Italian composer and double bass virtuoso, known as the “Paganini of the bass”.

This production by Thaddeus Strassberger marked the company premiere of a masterpiece composed nearly simultaneously with The Magic Flute in the last months of Mozart’s short life.

For his very last opera, Richard Wagner choose to deepen some of the themes that have marked his artistic and human journey: the feeling of fault, guilt, redemption, sacred love and profane desire. His opera Parsifal is a showcase of some of the most beautiful music written for opera, it takes the artform into the realms of philosophy and mystic visions, as well as being a profound exploration of the great questions at the core of our human experience. Wagner calls for an exceptional vocal quartet to accomplish this feat and we have quite the line up with Nikolai Schukoff, Matthias Goerne, Peter Rose and, for her very first Kundry, Sophie Koch.

The Russian-language opera — based on the controversial poem of the same title by Mikhail Lermontov — was composed by composer, conductor, pianist, and pedagogue Anton Rubinstein (of no relation to pianist Arthur Rubinstein). This performance is conducted by Paul Daniel and stars Alexandros Stavrakakis (Prince Gudal), Ray Chenez (The Angel), Evgenia Muraveva (Tamara), and Nicolas Cavallier (The Demon).

Handel’s astonishing theatrical sensibility turned Ariosto’s epic Orlando Furioso into an operatic tour-de-force.

When Marie falls for a soldier from the rival camp Tyrolean Tonio, it looks as though she may have to choose between her family and true love.