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GREAT NIGHT OUT: Opera companies from across the globe perform Songs of Friendship to delighted crowds in the theatre's half-finished extension.

What: Conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic conclude the Americas & Americans festival with a celebration of film composers and a special guest performance by Gustavo Santaolalla and a suite from Dudamel's own score to “Libertador.

OUR GUESTS ARE FROM THE OPERA "LA BOHEME" AND "RENT." LET'S WELCOME BRANDON GRAVES...GLOW'S COMPANY MANAGER...DIANA THOMPSON WHO PLAYS MUSETTA IN LA BOHEME...AND LERYN TURLINGTON WHO PLAYS MAUREEN IN RENT.

The prestigious Salzburg Festival is known for its classical performances of Mozart and Bach, but this year the spotlight is on a new modern opera telling the story of German artist and Holocaust victim Charlotte Salomon.

I keep telling the people on our board, I want the people who fly from Chicago to San Francisco to see an opera to go, "Wait a minute.

The final event in this summer's season of the Merola Opera Program is the Grand Finale, which will take place next month at the War Memorial Opera House.

The 13th annual Opera in the Park drew thousands of people to Madison's Garner Park for a night of music.

Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to investigate whether Chief Whip and Home Secretary should have declared tickets to Royal Box at Covent Garden Michael Gove and Theresa May have been reported to Parliament's sleaze watchdog over their failure to register lavish hospitality at the Royal Opera House as the guests of a millionaire.

Last month, the Minnesota Opera announced its commission of Dinner at Eight , a new comic opera by composer William Bolcom and librettist Mark Campbell , based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber .

In any production of "The Phantom of the Opera," things first really kick into gear when Christine descends into the Phantom's lair, lured by that intoxicating voice that's already firmly lodged inside her mind.

There's ambition rooted in the pursuit of personal glory, and then there's creative ambition, rooted in a desire to do what hasn't already been done.

Unfortunately, the Met's exciting new production of contemporary composer John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer," originally scheduled to air worldwide on November 15, 2014, was cancelled.

This week Gregory Warren began his tenure at North America's largest opera company, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

Charlie Haley, left in mirror, Nickel Dalton, and Ruben Reed check their makeup as they prepare to present the opera, "The Dragon Flame" at the Madeleine Choir School in Salt Lake City, Friday, July 25, 2014.

Renown tenor, Nathan Granner stars as Prince Prospero in the KC Fringe Festival production of "Red Death," that combines Edgar Allen Poe's story with opera and ballet.

Curbed Philly has the scoop on some eyebrow-raising developments at the old Metropolitan Opera House at North Broad and Poplar.

Figaro might not be getting married anytime soon. Mimi and Rodolfo might not fall in love in that cold Parisian garret.

Terrence McNally's Master Class imagines a lesson that three fictitious students might have received from 20th-century operatic legend Maria Callas at New York's The Juilliard School in the 1970s.

Mieczyslaw Weinberg 's 1968 opera The Passenger recently had its New York premiere as part of the annual Lincoln Center Festival.

Note that you can only reproduce articles signed "[journalist], swissinfo.ch" If you wish to use more articles per week, please feel free to contact us Zurich sidesteps the opera 'crisis'Isobel Leybold-Johnson in Zurich 25.00.2014 With the opera world facing diminishing audiences and financial woes, Zurich Opera appears to be bucking the trend.