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Quarantine Made Musical: Streamable Classical Concerts & Films To Brighten Your Day

It feels like hope and beauty are increasingly hard to find these days. Lucky for you, we've done the searching so you don't have to, compiling inspiring classical, jazz, and dance performances, films, and videos that you can stream for free!

Verdi’s Got Game: Rigoletto’s Got All the Right Moves

Could this 'Rigoletto'-inspired video game be help bring kids into opera?

Classical radio host Carl Grapentine announces retirement from “dream job” at WFMT

WFMT’s longtime Morning Program host Carl Grapentine landed what he describes as his “dream job” by chance. He first heard about WFMT in the early 1970s from his colleagues at WQRS, a classical radio station in Detroit that modeled itself after WFMT. Years later, while attending the Concert Music Broadcasters Association in Chicago, “I got up the courage to speak ...

VIDEO | Watch this Chinese opera artist transform into a Dragon Princess – in seconds

Getting into full costume and makeup to perform Chinese operas takes hours. You can see an artist from Chongqing Chuanju Opera Theatre transform herself in seconds.

Video: Violinist Stefan Milenkovich and pianist Rohan de Silva perform LIVE at WFMT

Watch celebrated Serbian violinist Stefan Milenkovich and acclaimed pianist Rohan de Silva share works by Beethoven, Ravel, Paganini, and Tchaikovsky.