Another Spectacular Season Begins! Season operas of some major US opera companies and orchestras HOUSTON GRAND OPERA Opening on October 21, 2011, Houston Grand Opera’s (HGO)season offers thirty-two performances of six operas, an exciting array of celebrated masterpieces and rarely-performed operatic gems featuring world-renowned directors, beloved productions and acclaimed singers.

 CONCERTS IN COMMEMORATION   2011 marks the tenth anniversary of the horrendous events that changed America and the world forever. Celebrations in remembrance of the innocent victims, the heroic first-responders, and their families take place in cities across the US and around the world,

  THE DUDAMEL FELLOWS: Joshua Dos Santos, Mihaela Cesa-Goje, Courtney Lewis, Santtu-Matias Rouvali Four up-and-coming young conductors will participate in the Dudamel Fellowship Program during Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2011/12 Season. Created in 2009 by Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Fellowship Program provides a unique opportunity for promising young conductors from…

  “THE DUDE” APPEARS WITH ELMO!   LA Philharmonic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel will appear on “Sesame Street” on PBS in the coming season. The Los Angeles Philharmonic released this image from the future episode, showing the 30-year-old Venezuelan conductor leading a group of penguins as Elmo looks on. The air date for the episode…

EAST MEETS EAST   Japan’s popular Saito Kinen Festival of classical music comes to China for the first time. Chen Nan reports.For celebrated Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa, the Saito Kinen Festival is sacred, being a tribute to Hideo Saito, the cellist, conductor and stern but beloved mentor of Ozawa and others. Since 1992, it has…