The unflinching multidisciplinary artist has long welcomed new challenges. With the release of a new album and a new book, he embraces the role his career has been building toward: investigative poet.

The English artist made her name with thoughtful pop-R&B. On What Are the Odds, she pulls her dancier roots to the surface.

At a pair of surprise shows at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, the beloved indie group was accompanied by an all-star crew of collaborators to preview a forthcoming triple album, Horsepower.

Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Andris Nelsons was let go without much input from the musicians of the orchestra, many of whom loved him.

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E.U. is an OG of go-go music, a heavily syncopated funk that features a slow and steady groove. Naturally, we celebrate 50 years of the native D.C. music with an office party.

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Opera Shop host Darren Hellwege talks with lifestyle journalist Shivani Vora about her recent interview for Forbes with Metropolitan Opera Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni. They discuss Rustioni's "process," life in the busy hub of the neighborhood around Lincoln Center, and Daniele's advice to newcomers to the art. Shivani's article can be found here: Met Opera’s Andrea Chénier Conductor Daniele Rustioni Talks Travel And Opera

With a focus on music from Early Romantic Era composers, the show - Blossoming into Romanticism - now airs each Thursday at 4:00pm.

"Opera Shop" host Darren Hellwege talks with Matt Haney, who is directing two performances of Puccini's La Boheme with the Ozarks Lyric Opera in Springfield next weekend. https://ozarkslyricopera.com/la-boheme

"Opera Shop" host Darren Hellwege visits with some of the talented young people bringing a production of Gian Carlo Menoti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" to Columbia. The production will be Dec. 5th and 6th at First Baptist Church of Columbia. Our guests are Molly Symmonds (Ahmal) Kennedy Kinnick (mother) and Carter Thiemann, who is the pianist.

Darren Hellwege, host of The Opera Shop, talks with Greg Campbell of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City about their run of "Madame Butterfly," this Friday through Sunday at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Lyric Opera of Kansas City