Johann Strauss News

The Canadian Opera Company's upcoming events includes the fall production of DIE FLEDERMAUS, the Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, as well as details about the second annual Ensemble Studio competition.

Waltz at a Viennese Ball in the spledidly restored Sandgate Town Hall to the Brisbane Chamber Orchestra.

The Canadian Opera Company has closed another successful opera season with 2011/2012 recording an average attendance of 91%. A total of 125,238 patrons attended the 67 performances of the company's seven mainstage productions in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts: Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris, Verdi's Rigoletto, Puccini's Tosca, Saariaho's Love from Afar, Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, the double bill of Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and Handel's Semele.

North Carolina Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn leads the orchestra and featured pianist Clara Yang in "Rhapsody in Blue" in a special Sunday concert during this summer's Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series.

North Carolina Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn leads the orchestra and featured pianist Clara Yang in "Rhapsody in Blue" in a special Sunday concert during this summer's Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series.

Vienna has been home to some of the world's most important composers and has inspired some of the greatest works in Western musical history. The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park concludes its 2011-2012 Season with "Spring in Vienna," featuring music that captures the spirit of the "city of music." The Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra are joined by soprano Julia Foster and tenor Curtis Rayam on a program including the Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss, the first movement of Schubert's Symphony No. 8 ("The Unfinished"), excerpts from Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes, and "Spring" from Haydn's The Seasons.

Vienna has been home to some of the world's most important composers and has inspired some of the greatest works in Western musical history. The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park concludes its 2011-2012 Season with "Spring in Vienna," featuring music that captures the spirit of the "city of music." The Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra are joined by soprano Julia Foster and tenor Curtis Rayam on a program including the Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss, the first movement of Schubert's Symphony No. 8 ("The Unfinished"), excerpts from Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes, and "Spring" from Haydn's The Seasons.

Subscriptions are now on sale for the Columbus Symphony's 2012-13 Masterworks and Pops seasons. Masterworks will continue to present eight concerts at the Ohio Theatre and four concerts at the Southern Theatre. All Pops concerts will remain at the Ohio Theatre.

The Hartt School has announced the following upcoming events.

Tenor Anthony Kearns takes the title role in Opera Naples [FL]'s production of Charles Gounod's, Faust - tonight, Friday, Feb. 24 - at 7:30 p.m. This is Mr. Kearns third appearance with Opera Naples, where he previously performed, with much acclaim, as 'Romeo' in Romeo and Juliet: Then and Now and as 'Edgardo Di Ravenswood' in Lucia di Lammermoor.

The JCC Thurnauer School of Music, New Jersey's leading community music school, named a Major Arts Institution by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, is pleased to announce its 2011-2012 Season.

The Joyce Theater Foundation will present the long-awaited, highly anticipated New York return of choreographer and artist Jin Xing, with her company Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai - after a 20-year absence and for the first time as a woman - from January 31 - February 5, 2012.

Lord Mayor's Tea Dance for the Young at Heart, is set to be held at City Hall, in Cork Sunday 29th January 2012 from 3.00pm-6pm.

The new musical stage comedy LUDWIG LIVE! will make its Philadelphia premiere for a limited engagement Jan. 12 - 29 at the Kimmel Center's Innovation Studio. Dressed in period regalia and esconsed behind a grand piano, Ludwig van Beethoven will entertain audiences with his swinging new 'lounge act.' The press opening will be Jan. 13 at 8:00 pm.

Lord Mayor's Tea Dance for the Young at Heart, is set to be held at City Hall, in Cork Sunday 29th January 2012 from 3.00pm-6pm.

Opera San Jose General Director Irene Dalis has announced repertoire for the company's 29th season to begin Saturday, September 8 with Georges Bizet's exotic romance The Pearl Fishers, one of four productions never before staged at the California Theatre.

The new musical stage comedy LUDWIG LIVE! will make its Philadelphia premiere for a limited engagement Jan. 12 - 29 at the Kimmel Center's Innovation Studio. Dressed in period regalia and esconsed behind a grand piano, Ludwig van Beethoven will entertain audiences with his swinging new 'lounge act.' The press opening will be Jan. 13 at 8:00 pm.