Quirky customs, long-lived legends, and other classical curiosities and superstitions.

Music and sports may seem diametrically opposed, but these artists — including a pitching ace-turned composer and an aspiring goalkeeper-turned opera sensation — prove otherwise

Exactly fifty years after its recording, a performance starring Luciano Pavarotti (Nemorino), Judith Blegen (Adina), and more.

Let’s take a step back in time to hear how classical music influenced some of the 20th century’s hits!

Shirley Verrett (Leonora), Luciano Pavarotti (Fernando), and Sherrill Milnes (Alfonso), headline this dazzling 1978 performance.

The Met revisits this January 1973 performance conducted by Richard Bonynge and featuring Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Regina Resnik, and Fernando Corena.

What made Pavarotti such an irresistible singer? A beautiful instrument, charisma to spare, and a technique that was the envy of the opera world.

Conductor James Levine, who ruled over the Metropolitan Opera for more than four decades before being eased aside when his health declined and then fired for sexual improprieties, has died.

Tenth music director Riccardo Muti opens this Valentine’s Day–themed program with selections from the CSO Resound release of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Barber’s The Lovers—settings of poems by Pablo Neruda—featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus follows, along with Kiri Te Kanawa and Luciano Pavarotti in the love duet from Verdi’s Otello. The Orchestra’s 1956 RCA recording of Richard Strauss’s portrait of …

Selections conducted Josef Stránský, Kurt Masur, and Leonard Bernstein featuring tenor Luciano Pavarotti and saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky.

In 1979, the great operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti spoke with Studs Terkel about singing for the Pope, his Neapolitan and French songs, and his operatic roles.

“My hope is the film goes a step toward that agenda of his which was to democratize the art form and broaden the audience reach.”

Vocal selections with a distinctive French flair will be sung by Victoria de los Ángeles, Luciano Pavarotti, Diana Damrau, José van Dam, and Bryan Hymel.

In 1993, DiChiera bought a dilapidated former movie and vaudeville theater that would be transformed into the Detroit Opera House.

Between 1952 and 1997, Studs Terkel invited some of the world’s best musicians to join him for his hour-long radio program on WFMT.

On May 16, 2018, what would have been Studs’s 106th birthday, listeners will have more access to this incredible gold mine of materials than ever before.

This week’s broadcast features a recording of a 1979 performance of Ponchielli’s La Gioconda, based on Victor Hugo’s French play Angelo, Tyrant of Padua. The star-studded cast includes soprano Renata Scotto in the title role and Luciano Pavarotti as Enzo Grimaldo along with Stefania Toczyska (Laura), Margarita Lilova (La Cieva), Norman Mittlemann (Barnaba), Feruccio Furlanetto (Alvise), John Del Carlo (Zuane), …

As WFMT’s Music Director, Andi Lamoreaux got to share some of her favorite music with audiences around the world. Here are some of her favorite pieces and performers, along with suggested recordings.