Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart archive
Read First Listen: Joyce DiDonato, 'Diva, Divo'
January 16, 2011 – Hear the amazing mezzo-soprano's new gender-bending opera album in its entirety before its release.
Listen The Nashville Symphony In Concert APM
January 6, 2011 – Celebrate the orchestra's return to its concert hall with music by Beethoven and Mozart. APM
Listen Why Fritz Wunderlich Ist So Wunderbar
November 4, 2010 – A new live recording by the great German lyric tenor has caught the ear of one adoring fan.
Listen Dinner With The Dead: Missy Mazzoli Meets Mozart
November 4, 2010 – The young indie-classical composer picks Mozart as the ideal, and best dressed, dinner companion.
Listen Lara St. John: A Little Skin, Lots Of Violin
July 29, 2010 – The violinist reflects on her self-confidence and her controversial, much-discussed album covers.
Listen Placido Domingo Conducts 'Don Giovanni'
May 21, 2010 – Mozart's dark comedy features music of limitless genius, and a drama that lives up to the score.
Listen Classical Cutups For April Fools' Day
April 1, 2010 – Renee Montagne and Miles Hoffman spin some of classical music's more lewd and laughable moments.
Listen Rafal Blechacz's Single-Minded Chopin APM
March 23, 2010 – Hear the young, award-winning Polish pianist play Chopin and Mozart in the NPR studio. APM
Listen Irresistible Treachery: Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'
November 20, 2009 – Mozart's dark comedy features music of limitless genius, and a drama that lives up to the score.
Listen Mozart Meets The Masons: 'The Magic Flute'
October 23, 2009 – Mozart's fanciful opera mixes surreal characters with mystical rites and cryptic, Masonic symbols.
Listen Mozart's Deceptive Simplicity
August 13, 2009 – Mozart's music, like a hologram, flashes back and forth between the simple and the complicated.
Listen First Listen: Danielle De Niese's 'Mozart Album'
August 1, 2009 – Hear a young soprano whose career is on the rise. Her new CD features lesser-known arias by Mozart.
Listen Mozart's Forward-Looking 'Magic Flute'
July 28, 2009 – Ted Libbey recommends an all-star cast performance of Mozart's last opera, The Magic Flute.
Listen Samuel Ramey: Bad-Guy Bass Of Opera
May 14, 2009 – The opera star muses on playing the devil and keeping a youthful sound near the end of his career.
Listen Mozart's Turbulent Final Symphonies
May 12, 2009 – Late in his career, Mozart explored feelings of emotional agitation and passion in his symphonies.