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Earl Turner returns to the Suncoast Showroom September 1 and 2.

The Dallas Opera announced today that the key role of Juliana Bordereau in the company's 25th Anniversary production of Dominick Argento's THE ASPERN PAPERS will be sung by Canadian-born French soprano Alexandra Deshorties. Ms. Deshorties made her Dallas Opera debut in October of 2009 as Desdemona in Giuseppe Verdi's Otello, in the production that opened the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival invites the public to its 25th annual Daedalus Project, a benefit for AIDS/HIV organizations, on Monday, August 20. Last season's Project raised $90,000 for AIDS/HIV organizations.

'YouTube sensation, chanteuse and high-end vocal coach' Miranda Sings is making yet another appearance at Birdland on Thursday, September 27 at 6pm. This event is part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series, which showcases performers and composers from the Great White Way and environs. Miranda's special guests have yet to be announced, but suffice to say they will be performers from the Broadway community thick-skinned enough to withstand her vigorous critiques and questionable pitch.

The Hollywood Bowl presents, for the first time, Pixar in Concert, offering 'visually stunning clips and memorable scenes from the studio's 13 feature films shown in high-definition on the venue's big screens,' Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 3, 4 and 5, at 8 pm. The scores from each of Pixar's movies, including its latest release Brave, will be performed by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, led by Thomas Wilkins.

This September, for the first time in eleven years, Chicago Opera Theater (COT) will present an opera in the fall: a new production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute. This is the first new production of The Magic Flute in Chicago in 17 years, the last being Chicago Opera Theater's production in 1995 at the Athenaeum Theatre. The opera will feature the Chicago premiere of the English translation by Jeremy Sams. The Magic Flute performs at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park on September 15, 19, 21, and 23.

After almost ten years as the jewel in the Town of Jupiter's crown, The Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre (BRIFT) announced plans to move to a new, as yet to be determined, location. BRIFT is presently situated on the development site for Harbourside at the corner of U.S. Highway One and Indiantown Road. The building is scheduled for demolition as part of that project.

Polarity Ensemble Theatre in association with Azusa Productions presents ADRIFT, a new play by David Alex, directed by Maggie Speer, playing July 26 - August 26, 2012 at the Greenhouse Theater Center Upstairs Studio, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago. ADRIFT features James Eldrenkamp, Colin Henry Fewell, Gary Murphy and Eric Ryan Swanson. Tickets for ADRIFT are available by calling the Greenhouse Theater Center Box Office at (773) 404-7336 or online at www.greenhousetheater.org. The press performance is tonight, July 27 at 7:30 pm.

Indalab Records has announced the release of The Outcome: Volume 1, a full length mixtape album from Long Island hip-hop recording artists E-Reign and Kave. The Outcome is a dynamic statement that will put Long Island on the national hip-hop map and gain attention for the lyrical and musical skills of two rising recording stars.

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival will present Flute Fest at the Otesaga on Thursday, August 2 at 7:30 pm. The concert, which is free and open to all, will feature the flute choir from the NY Summer Music Festival's prestigious International Flute Institute. Several of the Institute's instructors also will perform, including Guo-Liang Han, Principal Flute of the China National Symphony Orchestra; Henrik Wiese, Principal Flute of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; and Linda Chesis, Festival flutist, and professor of flute and chair of the woodwind department at the Manhattan School of Music.

Scroll down for photos of the cast of The Way Off Broadway Children's Theatre's upcoming production of DISNEY'S WINNIE THE POOH, which runs from August 4th - October 28th with performances every Saturday afternoon and the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month, and special added weekday performances. All tickets are $17 for lunch and the show.

Wolf Trap has announced the following events for the week of August 13-19.

Jim Brickman continues to wow audience members year after year with his intimate and beloved holiday tour. Performing live in two spectacular concerts, Jim Brickman On A Winter's Night arrives in Wilmington at the DuPont Theatre on Saturday, December 1st at 3pm and 7:30pm.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has announced the creation of The Florence Kopleff Choral Administrator Chair in perpetuity as a tribute to American Contralto Florence Kopleff who died on July 24, 2012. The impact of Miss Kopleff - once called the "greatest living alto" by Time magazine - on American music and the Atlanta Symphony will be felt for generations to come. Jeffrey Baxter, current Choral Administrator for the Atlanta Symphony, longtime member of the ASO Chorus, and a friend of Miss Kopleff, will be the first holder of the chair.

Guthrie Theater Director Joe Dowling today announced the appointment of Lauren Ignaut to the position of Director of Studio Theater Programming, a promotion from her position as Presentations Administrator in which she developed experience with and ties to a wide range of Twin Cities, national and international artists and companies presenting work at the Guthrie.

York College Blue Notes will swing into Louis Armstrong's Garden for their annual free big band concert on Saturday, August 4th at 2:00 pm.

The North Carolina Symphony and WUNC 91.5FM have partnered to present great music for a summer evening all season long. Every Monday, now through August 27, favorite Symphony performances from the past concert season will be broadcast on Monday night, 10:00 p.m. to midnight.

Theatre East presents "Normalcy" by Bennett Windheim, Off Broadway at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 416 West 42nd Street, NYC. Benard Cummings directs the new play. Previews begin for the limited engagement on August 31 and the opening is Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 7:00 pm. For this opening of its 2012-13 season, there will be a series of talk-backs throughout the run, with the author, the producers and director, as well as experts in the respective field of this emotionally charged play.

Opening this Friday, Tasty Monster Productions, a new theater company 'dedicated to the production of cutting edge original andre-envisioned theatrical and musical works for new audiences,' has announced the remount of our inaugural show Personals - a love story for the rest of us (by special arrangement with Samuel French,Inc.) featuring an amazing cast of diverse and talented actors from the DC metro area including Co-Founding Directors Heather Bagnall Scheeler and Luke Tudball, as well as the musical talents of Mike Noonan and the award winning musical trio the Unified Jazz Ensemble.

Get ready to swing next month when Brisbane's own Queensland Pops Orchestra presents the next concert in its 2012 program, Music To Swing By on 18 August in Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC's) Concert Hall.