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North Carolina’s Puerto Rican community has united in recent years in response to repeat natural disasters that have hit the island. In the wake of Hurricane Fiona, the diaspora is coming together once again to organize relief efforts.

Verdi's tightly wound masterpiece swirls heartfelt sentiment together with appalling violence and genuine tragedy, along with some of the most familiar tunes he ever composed.

The band's sound has changed markedly over the years, but its songs remain rooted in a search for self-improvement, and in a kind of fundamental decency.

The Ohio band spends its new album shoehorning deep, dark ideas into pocket-sized pop-rock anthems. Every word and sound feels thoughtfully wrought, but Such Things also exudes freewheeling joy.

Gogol Bordello's frenetic live show is a gypsy punk circus, complete with a high-wire act. So when the band arrived at the modest NPR Music offices, we wanted to make sure we were covered technically.

Puccini's genius: making an indelible opera out of ordinary people's stories. Vittorio Grigolo stars in this performance.

Placido Domingo takes on his 126th role: as Bajazet in Handel's taut drama Tamerlano..

The tragedies of Verdi's own life spurred some of his most extraordinary work, including this tale of a daughter inadvertently destroyed by her father's anger and bitterness.

Is Don Giovanni the greatest opera of them all, as some have suggested? That's hard to say, but Mozart's brilliant combination of stark human tragedy and realistic comedy features music of limitless genius, and a drama that lives up to the score.

The co-producer of the singer's posthumous album talks about getting her idol back in the studio.

Renowned bass Samuel Ramey stars as a serial murderer in Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, and as the devious title character in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, a comedy with a corpse at the center of the action. It's a deadly double bill from the Washington National Opera.

The band, led by singer and songwriter Felix Bechtolsheimer, performs dark but beautiful songs from its evocative 2022 album People In Cars.

On this week's All Songs Considered, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis collaborate with fellow Seattle band Fences, plus new music from Frazey Ford, Spider Bags, Zola Jesus, GOAT and more.

The three companies named in the suit operate processing plants in Morganton, Wilkesboro, Dobson, Siler City, and other communities across the state.

Lisa Cline has 39 years of experience in education. More than 29 of those years were in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

Drawing from her new album Breaking the Thermometer, Leyla McCalla and her band explore the weight of memory in songs deeply immersed in the rhythms, sounds and history of Haiti.

In his vintage Stetson, the Texas troubadour performed a set of songs that find new meaning in familiar country, folk and blues forms.

Global honeybee populations have been declining for many years, due to disease, loss of habitat and poor beekeeping practices. A newly approved vaccine helps fight American Foulbrood disease.

Over two years after the PlayStation 5 was released, Sony announced the shortage is finally over. Consumers should "have a much easier time" finding a console, an exec said.

The English singer-songwriter and her band give a cathartic, playful performance at the Tiny Desk.