The Canadian Opera Company has received 16 nominations for Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Awards, including five of the six nominations for outstanding opera production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMStarting this fall, student orchestras and choruses will be able to pay for the chance to rehearse with the music staff of the New York City Opera, the company announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41PMThe Toronto Symphony's 2006-07 season will include festivals of Mozart, Russian music, and new music, as well as concerts juxtaposing Beethoven and Mahler.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AMThe Metropolitan Opera is planning to cut its budget for the current season in order to ward off a deficit, the Associated Press reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMNicholas Smith, music director of the South Carolina Philharmonic since 1993, will step down when his contract expires at the end of the 2006-07 season, the Columbia-based orchestra announce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AMThe Memphis Symphony Orchestra will play a free concert on October 2 to raise money for musicians and others suffering from the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PMThe New York Philharmonic's weekly radio series begins the week of October 3, the Philharmonic announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:09AMTickets are selling rapidly for New York City Opera's season-opening Opera-for-All Festival, the company says.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:47AMBrian Ferneyhough's Shadowtime, a "thought opera'" based on the life of philosopher Walter Benjamin, will have its American premiere tonight at the Lincoln Center Festiva…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMThe Spoleto Festival USA, which ran May 27-June 12, sold about $2.53 million worth of tickets, just above last year's record-setting total, the Charleston Post and Courier reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05AMThe powerful soprano Ghena Dimitrova, who performed at La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, and other houses around the world, died on June 11, accordin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23AMThe Quebec government will soon announce plans for a new hall for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Montreal's La Presse reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29AMThe Metropolitan Opera will perform Puccini's Tosca and Saint-SaêŠns' Samson et Dalila in its Met in the Parks series this summer, the company announced.
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