Welcome Purcell Reissues from William Christie

Everything is sung with such clean, clear articulation. You might not even need the libretto. These recordings are as rewarding to listen to today as they were when first released.

WTJU Radio 1/30/23 WTJU Radio 1/30/23

Sunday Opera Matinee – “Eugene Onegin” Feb. 05

Tim Snider 8/26/15 Tim Snider 8/26/15

Letter from Bayreuth

Wagnerians could be nowhere else this summer of the bicentennial of Wagner’s birth but in Bayreuth for the new production of the Ring.

Tim Snider 9/6/13 Tim Snider 9/6/13

The Greatest Tenors?

How can we compare any tenor of today with all other tenors of the past?

Ralph Graves 4/2/13 Ralph Graves 4/2/13

Ann Shaffer - 30 years of "A Time for Singing"

Ann Shaffer, host of A Time for Singing marked her 30th anniversary as a WTJU volunteer announcer on March 30, 2013.

Tim Snider 12/18/12 Tim Snider 12/18/12

Books on Music: 9 Top Picks

Rosen's books, of which The Classical Style is the earliest and still perhaps the most distinguished, are not alone in supplying pleasurable reading, not to mention instruction, to every lover of classical music.

Tim Snider 8/10/12 Tim Snider 8/10/12

Report from Verona

The Festival at the Arena di Verona is one of the great operatic spectacles. Staged in the vast Roman arena in Verona, the stage is probably the world's largest.

Tim Snider 6/4/12 Tim Snider 6/4/12

The Met's Ring Fails to Satisfy

For those who missed this season's Ring cycle at the Metropolitan Opera, take heart. You didn't miss much.

Tim Snider 3/23/12 Tim Snider 3/23/12

The Gergiev Phenomonon

I find that the performance has an inner passion that is compelling in its intensity, plus the recording quality is first-rate.

We are grateful for the generosity of the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation and UVA Arts Council, supporting WTJU and CharlottesvilleClassical.org.