L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is a two-act comic opera (opera buffa) by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Premiering in Milan in 1832, it remains one of the most frequently performed operas in the world, celebrated for its "bel canto" style and its blend of heartfelt romance and lighthearted comedy.

Ben Sayevich, Violin and Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich, Piano play in the Kansas Public Radio Live Performance studio to preview a concert they will be having at the 1900 Building, 1900 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mission Woods, Kansas 66205 Friday, January 23, 2026 7:30 p.m.

Watch Miles perform later this month at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Musichttps://events.iu.edu/musiciub/event/2125266-senior-recital-miles-swaminathan-piano

The appearance with the Topeka Symphony is the prize for the Topeka Symphony Young Artist competition.

Aglow Trio's modern classical music filled the Kansas Public Radio Live Performance Studio in anticipation of several concerts across the state December 5, 2025

KU piano student and recent winner of the KU piano concerto competition, Jair Zacarias, played Liszt's Reminiscences de Norma on December 4th, 2025. Classical host Destiny Mermagen and KU professor of piano, Priscila Navarro, join us in the studio as well.

Topeka Symphony Soloist Hannah Occena live at Kansas Public Radio November 21, 2025. Hannah plays music from Bach, Toru Takemitsu, Gertrude Rivers Robison and Philippe Gaubert. Cordelia brown visits with Topeka Symphony conductor Kyle Willey Pickett and Hannah Occena.

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Two young pianists from the Park University International Center for Music in Parkville, Missouri visited Kansas Public Radio to help publicize their Students of Stan Ioudenitch Recital coming up Nov 13, 2025

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