A familiar melody is heard not once today . . but twice. James Galway plays and then Juan Diego Florez sings from Gluck’s Orphee et Euridice. Other vocal and non-vocal pairings are heard from Rossini’s Tancredi and Lehar’s The Count of Luxembourg.

The Song to the Moon from Rusalka will highlight this program along with Songs My Mother Taught Me. Enjoy one of the Moravian Duets and a Slavonic Dance as well. Artists include Victoria de los Angeles, Rita Streich, Piotr Beczala, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Irmgard Seefried.

Grab your sandals and a towel for an "Early Morning Bathe" by Britten, Barber's "Dover Beach" sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, "Where Corals Lie" from Elgar's Sea Pictures sung by Janet Baker and an aria from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers sung by Ernest Blanc.

Joan Sutherland has a singing lesson in The Daughter of the Regiment as do Ian Bostridge and Sophie Daneman in Noel Coward's Bittersweet. Dr. Pangloss gives a lesson Candide and Julie Andrew teaches Ben Kingsley to dance in the King and I.

Let's celebrate the holiday with French operatic arias by Meyerbeer, Massenet, and Godard sung by Marilyn Horne, Bryan Hymel, Renee Fleming, Thomas Hampson and Solange Michel.

Larry offers some holiday musical fireworks with a American program of traditional favorites such as "At the River" and "Shenandoah", a rarely heard song from WWII, a Stephen Foster Medley, a spiritual, Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" and more.

Selections by this master of Italian opera come from the Stabat Mater as sung by Cecilia Bartoli and Luba Orgonasova. Arias will be heard from La Cenerentola by Eva Podles, William Tell as sung by Juan Diego Florez and the Barber of Seville by Roberta Peters, Robert Merrill and Cesare Valletti.

No composer’s music was ever quite like that of Hector Berlioz. Find out why with arias from his Les Troyens, Benvenuto Cellini and The Damnation of Faust sung by Susan Graham and Regine Crespin plus a song sung by Thomas Hampson.

Let’s spend this summer’s day in sunny Italy. You bring the pasta, cannoli and wine and Larry will supply some well-known and melodic songs. It’s all things Italian with Franco Corelli, Joan Sutherland, Enrico Caruso, Rosa Ponselle and Roberto Alagna.

This program showcases the Maestro in some of his lesser known operas such as I Lombardi, Luisa Miller, I Masnadieri and I Vespri Sicilliani. Featured artists are Jose Carreras, Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Boris Christoff, June Anderson, Luciano Pavarotti and Samuel Ramey.