The curtain is about to rise! Tune in for the debut of The Opera Shop this morning at 11 on Classical 90.5 and the KBIA app!

Tune in Saturday for The Opera Shop. We hear some beautiful music from France, the Opera Time Machine brings you everyone from Maria Callas to Pretty Yende, and our featured work is Die Fledermaus in a historic 1952 recording. Saturday morning at 11 on Classical 90.5!

Grateful to appear on the latest issue of BBC's Music Magazine. It was a great interview and I hope everyone enjoys it! Subscribe to the magazine here: classical-music.com/magazine/issue…

Darren's gonna bring the opera again this weekend!

Classical music to ease you into the bank holiday 😌 🎥 Jean-Yves Thibaudet - Tiny Desk Concert

Happy Birthday Leonard Bernstein!

Darren Darren Hellwege previews this week's The Opera Shop, though he sounds a little naselly for some reason.

Today we announced a historic expansion to our Artistic leadership by appointing Esa-Pekka Salonen as our first Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Creative Director, a newly designed position to help shepherd the LA Phil into its next exciting era. Beginning in the 2026/27 season,

Sergei Rachmaninov and Arturo Toscanini, Lucerne, 1939 [Archives, Lucerne Festival] Note: Rach actually smiling!

Just over a week to go until FireTale Productions premieres their newest work at our Community Conversations event! Enjoy these behind-the-scenes rehearsal sneak peeks, and grab your tickets today: loom.ly/rqQzFXI We’ll see you September 12!

Opera Shop has news! And Ravel!

Darren's tremendous videography skills on display.

The Opera Shop opens soon!

It's almost Halloween so we have a scary, creepy tale on The Opera Shop this week!

Why you should see The Makropulos Case - Royal Opera House. london-unattached.com/the-makropulos… via @lon_unattached

Bella Noel uncovers the talents of Felix's big sister, Fanny Mendelssohn, and how this determined woman battled social prejudices classical-music.com/composers/fann…

I am extremely disappointed to arrive at GQT Movies Forum 8 and learn that they are not showing Metropolitan Opera Live in HD today. I apologize to Opera Shop listeners who like me planned their weekend around this and got let down. So much for opening day.

Darren hamming it up again