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Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, founded in 1948, is a six week celebration of opera held in late June through July in Southern France .

July 2, 5:22 PM Comment RSS Gifted singers with sharp minds from UC Berkeley's Young Musicians Program Ellen St.

Twelve young musicians who wanted to keep their instruments from collecting dust this summer have been working together to make beautiful music.

My father discovered classical music accidentally, while turning on the polka station on the family radio earlier than usual one Sunday morning.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform two different repertoires for their Vail Valley double-header on March 16 and 17.

Attending the Philadelphia Orchestra's summer concerts at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts requires a lengthier trip than a train ride to Center City, but this season's programs are easily worth the excursion to the vast lawn of the Mann, the orchestra's summer home since 1976.

Judy Collins can t remember life without music. Nor would she ever want to. "I was raised in a home where music was our bread and butter as well as our pleasure.

Five young soloists will perform at the Pasadena Summer Youth Chamber Orchestra's free Young Artist's Concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Church of The Nazarene, 3700 E. Sierra Madre Blvd.

The Monroe Area Opera, based in Sweetwater, Tenn., is looking for singers of all voice types to participate in four productions planned for ther 2009-2010 opera season.

Reschedule/Cancellation Policy: I work by monthly appointment, paid in advance,and knowing well how things can happen at the last minute, have a liberal make up policy.

Newly Reviewed Annie Reviewed in this issue . St. Louis Stage Capsules The Ghosts of Versailles Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais wrote three plays about lovable con man and fixer, Figaro.

Over the rainbow, away in a manger or out in the foyer, the Columbus Symphony will seek to attract new audiences with a second season of its informal and innovative "CSOvations!" concerts, starting in the fall.

Mozart is to opera what Shakespeare is to theater. Like the playwright, the composer's operas are full of characters and situations that are real, and that we come to care about.

Is Beethoven early music? On paper, an all-Beethoven concert at the Boston Early Music Festival, as was presented by cellist Pieter Wispelwey and fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout on Friday, carries the same cognitive dissonance as hearing one's prom theme turn up on an oldies station.

Festival Mozaic has announced that single tickets for its 2009 summer season are now on sale.

Clusters of pink lilies greeted me on our familiar family Melmac dinnerware as I sat down at the Rep-now breakfast table.

For years, pianist Allan Fuller mostly avoided the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Performers are tuning up for Cheltenham's celebrated Music Festival which begins next month.

THEY cheered, they waved their flags and applauded with all their might but it was not to be Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw's night to pick up the crystal goblet as winner of this concert.

MAN OF MANY TALENTS: Michael Bawtree is making his mark on the Scottish musical scene in a variety of roles, and is next headed for the St Magnus Festival in Orkney.