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Utah Opera Company production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" will open Pittsburgh Opera's next season at the Benedum in October.

Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons: Winter' and Beethoven's 'Eroica' symphony will be featured at Salem Chamber Orchestra's next concert, at 3 p.m. Sunday.

Verdi, Mozart, Wagner, Rossini and a double dose of Puccini -- this is LA Opera's new season, announced Thursday at the Los Angeles Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Take one neglected masterpiece, stir in a gifted bunch of young singers, add an attentive conductor and a savvy director.

Nicola Luisotti has been appointed Music Director of Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy, effective immediately.

By Elizabeth Nolan - Gulf Islands Driftwood Published: February 07, 2012 5:00 PM Updated: February 07, 2012 5:02 PM The three talented musicians of Salt Spring's Stubbs family will return to the ArtSpring stage next week for the fourth season of the Salt Spring Chamber Players, presenting a program of sophisticated piano solos bracketed by engaging ... (more)

No matter how many productions you might have seen of Mozart's Magic Flute, almost certainly none was like what West Edge Opera is serving up March 4-11. It's the famously "different" David Scott Marley's new English adaptation in Japanese manga style.

February 6, 2012 -- Nicola Luisotti has been appointed Music Director of Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy, effective immediately.

Utah Opera Artistic Director Christopher McBeth announced Utah Opera's complete 2012-2013 season on Monday.

Editor's Note: The following is a news release issued by Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

Music director Michalis Economou will conduct the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra in 15 Greatest Hits of Classical Music at Katara Cultural Village Opera House today and tomorrow , at 7.30pm. The Philharmonics audience selected the pieces to be heard through surveys conducted at Opera House performances as well as on the Web.

10-19 at Lincoln Center, 935 Maple Ave., Downers Grove. Performances are at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays.

This winter, the Kennebunk Free Library will present four crowd-pleasing comedic operas on DVD in the Reading Room.

Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons: Winter" and Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony will be featured at Salem Chamber Orchestra's next concert, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb.

The Fredonia Shakespeare Club held its 12th regular meeting of the 2011-2012 year on Jan.

The Utah Opera premiere of Daniel CatA n's "Florencia en el Amazonas" will come next in January of 2013 as a continuation of Utah Opera's American Opera Initiative, bringing with it a touching discovery of the transformative power of love set to a luxurious score.

Serving as music director and chief ringleader, Ari Rudiakov had many capable assistants in the Danbury Music Centre 's annual "Concert for Young People" last Sunday at Ives Hall on the campus of Western Connecticut State University .

Saturday's concert of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox illustrated both the benefits and the risks of building a program out of acclaimed masterpieces.

Sometimes Vivica Genaux loves to sing with the precision and breakneck speed of an athlete -- in "techno rhythm." The common thread of most of the songs she performs is that they come from obscure archives, silent for centuries.

In this Jan. 6, 2010 photo released by Metropolitan Opera, Paul Plishka performs as the Sacristan in Puccini's "Tosca," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.