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Music Programs Produced by
Nashville Public Radio:

Bluegrass Breakdown with Dave Higgs
8/28/10 “Dollars & Cents, Part 2″

Live in Studio C
9/2/10 The Eclectic Chamber Players plus Todd Lombardo and Anna Owens

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Sunday Morning on
Saint Paul Sunday

The first guests whom Saint Paul Sunday (then known as Saint Paul Sunday Morning) welcomed into its studio are the same performers you'll hear this week: the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Sunday Night on The Nashville Symphony Broadcast

Nashville SymphonyComing up September 5th: In his Symphony No. 1, Beethoven embarked on what would soon be a string of monumental works destined to change the course of classical music. And Bartók’s early masterpiece Bluebeard’s Castle recounts the classic fairy tale about a bloodthirsty nobleman and his castle of horrors.

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Opera Broadcasts

Lisa SimeoneFrom May through November, Nashville Public Radio brings you World of Opera from NPR.

World of Opera with host Lisa Simeone brings listeners compelling performances from top American and international opera companies. World of Opera encompasses the seminal operas of the 17th century; the comic, political and social satires of the 18th century; the “bel canto” masterpieces of Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini; the revolutionary 19th-century works of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner; and, of course, operas in the “true-to-life” verismo style of Puccini and Mascagni.

World of Opera goes beyond the traditional, operatic vernacular to showcase opera as anything but an elitist form of art. As the series reveals, opera has been to past centuries what the cinema is to us today: a star-studded, multi-faceted, multi-media form of entertainment, and one that people return to over and over again. In fact, opera is as popular today as it ever has been.

Listen each Saturday at 12:30pm on 90.3 WPLN-FM, or listen online

Coming up on World of Opera

Aug. 21: Puccini: Tosca (Théâtre Antique, Orange)

Aug. 28: Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (Washington National Opera)

Sept. 4: Berg: Wozzeck (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)

Sept. 11: Gounod: Faust (Opera Carolina, Charlotte SC)

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Nashville Opera Broadcasts

Nashville Opera logoThis September and October, WPLN will air three productions by Nashville Opera. Tune in Saturdays at 12:30pm on 90.3 WPLN-FM, or listen live online, on the following dates:

September 18 – “Turandot” by Giacomo Puccini, originally recorded in 2006, to celebrate Nashville Opera’s 30th anniversary.

September 25 - “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Philip Glass.

October 2 – “Tosca” by Giacomo Puccini.

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The Metropolitan Opera broadcast season returns December, 2010.