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The final week of the tenth anniversary Deer Valley Music Festival includes three performances with the Utah Symphony in Park City, Utah. The Utah Symphony performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 on August 7. Then, on August 9 opera stars and the Utah Opera chorus serenade audiences under the night sky. The Festival ends with its seventeenth concert of the summer: a rock 'n' roll tribute to the Music of the Rolling Stones with the Utah Symphony on August 10.

Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers (OSSCS) launch their 44th season with a dynamic new music director, Clinton Smith. After the tragic death of founder and visionary George Shangrow in 2010, OSSCS mounted an exhaustive search for a new music director that culminated in the 2012-2013 season, where six music director finalists each conducted one concert. Clinton Smith conducted the March 16, 2013 concert featuring pieces by Haydn, Gluck, Bizet and Copland. Audience and community feedback was a critical component in the decision-making process. As Board President Pro Tem Paula Rimmer summarized, "Clinton's rapport with our singers and instrumentalists was instantaneous. He has a deep understanding of OSSCS' history, exciting ideas for the future, and a truly exuberant love of music. We are thrilled to welcome him into our community."

Young artists from all corners of the globe will make their way to Cincinnati this summer to work with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's (CCM) world-class faculty and renowned guest artists while in residence at the state-of-the-art CCM Village.

Zwei Rollendebuts in den Hauptpartien gibt es in 'Il barbiere di Siviglia' ab 7. Juni 2013 an der Wiener Staatsoper: Die Ensemblemitglieder Margarita Gritskova und Nikolay Borchev sind erstmals

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) has announced an exciting lineup of summer programs for 2013. Students from around the world have the opportunity to work with CCM's world-class faculty and renowned guest artists while in residence at the state-of-the-art CCM Village.

Beginning Wednesday, June 19, the Met will present Summer Encores, featuring select performances from the groundbreaking Live in HD series, in more than 400 movie theaters across the United States. The 2013Summer Encores series offers screenings of four popular Live in HD transmissions: Bizet's Carmen (June 19), Verdi's Il Trovatore(June 26), Rossini's Armida (July 10), and Verdi's La Traviata (July 17). An additional two titles, Puccini's Turandot and Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, will also be shown in select theaters on varying dates. A list of participating national and international theaters, as well as showtimes, can be found by visiting www.metopera.org/hdlive. Detailed cast and opera information is included on the schedule below.

The Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric and Lyric Opera Baltimore present Bravissimo Bel Canto for one performance only, tonight, April 13, 2013 at 8:00 PM.

Mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught makes her premiere recital tour to North America this spring.

The Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric and Lyric Opera Baltimore present Bravissimo Bel Canto for one performance only, Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 8:00 PM.

Joseph Rescigno will conduct a rare staging of Rossini's opera buffa, La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso ('The Newspaper, or The Wedding Contest'), presented by the New England Conservatory at Boston's Paramount Theater, tonight, April 6-9, 2013. The fully staged production with all-student cast and orchestra will be directed by NEC's Chair of Opera Studies, Joshua Major.

Soprano Kathleen Battle performs at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 8 pm. Tickets are $49-79.

The Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center was the scene of a celebration this evening as The Dallas Opera Guild presented a rich variety of homegrown talent competing for top prizes in the 25th Annual 'Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition,' an on-stage showcase for young opera singers with Texas connections.

Mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught makes her premiere recital tour to North America this spring.

Grammy-nominated early music ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston presents a staged version of G.F. Handel's pastoral masterpiece Acis and Galatea tonight, March 10th at The Hobby Center, with additional performances in Austin, and Bryan, Texas.

Diana Damrau will make her role debut as the courtesan Violetta in La Traviata, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin in his first Met performances of the Verdi tragedy. Saimir Pirgu sings Violetta's lover Alfredo, and Placido Domingo sings the role of Alfredo's father, Giorgio Germont, in this revival of Willy Decker's 2010 production. This season's performances will be Damrau's first time singing the role of Violetta anywhere, while Domingo will move from the tenor role of Alfredo, which he has sung at the Met numerous times since 1970, to the baritone role of Giorgio.

Mezzo-soprano El?na Garan?a makes her New York recital debut in Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage with pianist Kevin Murphy on Saturday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m. The program features lieder by Robert Schumann, Alban Berg, and Richard Strauss, including Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben and Berg's 'Sieben fruhe Lieder.' Complete program details are below.

Riccardo Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini will return to the Met March 4 for its first company performances since 1986.

Casting is announced for the role of Escamillo for this season's remaining performances of Carmen. DWayne Croft will sing the role tonight, February 20 and February 26, and March 1, and Ildar Abdrazakov will sing the role on February 23 matinee, a performance that will be broadcast around the world over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network.

New York City Opera opens its spring 2013 season with a new production of Powder Her Face (1995), composed by Thomas Ades (b.1971) to a libretto by Philip Hensher (b. 1965).