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Houston Grand Opera music director Patrick Summers will conduct Wagner's Lohengrin.

The opera superstar has selected a delightful program that includes arias by Richard Wagner and Giacomo Puccini and songs by Amy Beach, Ottorino Respighi, Richard Strauss, Benjamin Moore, and Leonard Bernstein .

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Tickets are now on sale for Hawaii Opera Theatre's Grand Opera 2010 Anniversary Season.

"Joyfully we greet this noble hall/where only art and peace shall ever dwell." With the rousing Entry of the Guests from Richard Wagner's Tannhauser the Winspear Opera House opened for business Thursday night.

The Metropolitan Opera's HD broadcast series in movie theaters may be the biggest thing since sliced bread, but it's not the only game in town.

I must confess that the music of Friedrich Klose took me completely by surprise.

American soprano Christine Brewer and pianist Craig Rutenberg will perform Wednesday at New York's musical jewel, Carnegie Hall.

Architect Spencer de Grey inside the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas on Thursday.

Music Director Rohan Smith will conduct the first concert series of the Midcoast Symphony's 20th Anniversary season on Saturday evening, October 24 in Lewiston in a special benefit concert to support the Franco American Heritage Center, and Sunday afternoon, October 25 in Topsham at the Orion Performing Arts Center.

THEY say that opera is "the most expensive human endeavour, with the possible exception of war". And Wagner's Ring cycle is the most expensive opera of all.

Elizabeth Renzetti London - Last updated on Monday, Oct. 05, 2009 04:33PM EDT F or every gift, perhaps, there's a deficit, and when Ben Heppner started his career in opera, he was aware of that he had a natural advantage in his powerful voice, but his acting skills.

Grammy Award-Winning soprano Christine Brewer will perform as part of the Community Performance Series' 21st season on Thursday, Oct.

So it gave us something of a start to read such badmouthing coming from one whose blog posts suggest he's none of the above, but is, rather, a fairly knowledgeable operagoer and a man of some considerable intelligence.

THE Mariinsky Opera returns to Wales Millennium Centre in October with a triple-bill of celebratory events to mark the landmark arts venue's fifth birthday.

Lohengrin , composed by Richard Wagner , is a romantic opera in three acts. It was first performed in 1850 at the Staatskapelle Weimar and conducted by Franz Liszt.

At the Metropolitan Opera these days, when the song has ended, it's the drama that lingers on.

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Werther at Opera North, Leeds, review Massenet's Werther, performed by Opera North, benefits from two terrific performances.

In this Sept. 24, 2009 photo released by Royal Opera House, Nina Stemme stars as Isolde, left, and Ben Heppner stars as Tristan in "Tristan and Isolde," at the Royal Opera House in London.