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The New York Philharmonic will launch the eighth season of its concert broadcast series, The New York Philharmonic This Week, beginning the week of September 26, 2011.

The Metropolitan Opera's 2011-12 season will feature the world's leading singers, conductors, and stage directors in seven new productions, including a world premiere, a Met premiere, and the first complete performances of a new Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage.

The New York Philharmonic will launch the eighth season of its concert broadcast series, The New York Philharmonic This Week, beginning the week of September 26, 2011.

The Metropolitan Opera Guild pays tribute to the legendary American mezzo-soprano, Marilyn Horne, on Monday, October 31

Wolf Trap Features the Esteemed Ballet West; the Operatic Superstar Event of the Summer with Opera's Greatest Hits from Wolf Trap Opera's Alumni Stars; Kings of Motown The Temptations and The Four Tops; Folk and Country Stars John Prine and Mary Chapin Carpenter; and GRAMMY Winners Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers w/ the Punch Brothers

The Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School jointly announced plans today for a semi-staged concert performance of Gluck's Armide, the second collaboration between the two institutions, following last season's acclaimed new production of The Bartered Bride, conducted by James Levine and staged by Stephen Wadsworth.

Wolf Trap Features the Esteemed Ballet West; the Operatic Superstar Event of the Summer with Opera's Greatest Hits from Wolf Trap Opera's Alumni Stars; Kings of Motown The Temptations and The Four Tops; Folk and Country Stars John Prine and Mary Chapin Carpenter; and GRAMMY Winners Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers w/ the Punch Brothers

Cineplex Entertainment (TSX:CGX), via our Front Row Centre Events announces the very popular series The Met: Live in HD is returning to participating Cineplex theatres.

The seventh annual Opera News Awards will be presented on Sunday, April 29 at The Plaza in New York City, paying tribute to five extraordinary artists who have made an invaluable contribution to the art form: sopranos Karita Mattila and Anja Silja, baritones Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Peter Mattei, and director Peter Sellars.

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS) creates intimate concerts that breathe new life into an art form that is rich and emotionally resonant, yet is too often treated as genteel, intellectual, and predictable.

Madison Opera's Opera in the Park marks its tenth anniversary on Saturday, July 16 at 8 p.m. in Garner Park on Madison's West Side. The annual free concert of opera and Broadway favorites will close Madison Opera's 50th anniversary season.

The Warner Theatre's Summer With the Met series concludes with an encore presentation of Wagner's Die Walkure on Thursday, July 7 at 6pm.

Madison Opera's Opera in the Park marks its tenth anniversary on Saturday, July 16 at 8 p.m. in Garner Park on Madison's West Side. The annual free concert of opera and Broadway favorites will close Madison Opera's 50th anniversary season.

Today, Seattle Opera officially announces its summer 2013 production of Wagner's four-opera epic, Der Ring des Nibelungen, as well as the composer's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, which will open the 2014/15 season the following summer.

Metropolitan Opera Radio on Sirius XM (Channel 74) will celebrate the 40th anniversary of James Levine's Metropolitan Opera debut with a full week of Levine performances. Fifteen historic performances, three of which join the archival rotation on Sirius XM for the first time, will air in rotation for an entire week, beginning May 30 and ending June 5. The broadcasts will be introduced by Levine and other artists, some of whom will also pay tribute to the Met Music Director's extraordinary career in special segments between operas.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announces its entire 2011 summer season, featuring 99 performances at the majestic Filene Center amphitheater, eight evenings of opera at The Barns at Wolf Trap, and 70 performances at Wolf Trap's Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced a new conductor lineup for five of the BSO's 21 concerts to take place during the 2011 Tanglewood season.

The Collegiate Chorale presents its 2011 Spring Concert Something Wonderful: An Evening of Broadway with Deborah Voigt, with featured guest artist Paolo Szot, conducted by Ted Sperling with the American Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall.

After impressing critics and fans alike as Puccini's Girl of the Golden West at the Metropolitan Opera, this spring Deborah Voigt returns to her home company for a milestone role debut: for the first time, she takes on Brunnhilde - one of opera's most challenging and iconic roles - in a new production of Wagner's Die Walkure.

The Collegiate Chorale presents its 2011 Spring Concert Something Wonderful: An Evening of Broadway with Deborah Voigt, with featured guest artist Paolo Szot, conducted by Ted Sperling with the American Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall.