$35m gift to San Francisco opera
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A donation of $35m made by a long-time patron is going to the San Francisco Opera.
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As the Brooklyn Academy of Music prepares to unveil its restoration, academy officials say the institution's turnaround has been strengthened by two major gifts totaling $30 million.
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L'istituto americano opera in oltre 400 filiali
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To promote its first season under its new general manager, Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera will give away 3,000 free tickets to Friday's dress rehearsal of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly."
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For $250 a night in a city where Super Bowl rentals are topping out at $250,000 a week, Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery can offer a crash pad for football fans this weekend.
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Opera in Denmark has a new home after a wealthy businessman signed over a 2.5 billion-kroner (336 million euro, US$417 million) opera house on Copenhagen's waterfront to the government Friday.
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A customer asked vintner Leon Santoro this week if he could ship a case of wine to the customer&#39;s home in New York. Not legally, replied Santoro, general manager of Orfila Vineyards &amp; Winery in Escondido.
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The late Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti carved out 15 million euros (21 million dollars) of his estate in the form of a trust for his second wife, Italian press reports said Tuesday.
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The Clark Art Institute, long known as a home for French and American paintings, is making room for a $90 million British invasion thanks to a donation from the foundation of Sir Edwin Manton.
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THE Welsh National Opera are to perform three charity concerts to raise money for Moroccan street children.   Members of the chorus will perform in three Caerphilly churches from tomorrow to raise money for The Padre Lerchundi Children's Centre in Tangier.
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A 69-year-old former oil tanker moored in the companyâs container port in Red Hook, Brooklyn, has been transformed into the set for an opera, âIl Tabarro,â by Puccini.
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By SOLVEJ SCHOU  LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Opera will present Richard Wagner's epic "Der Ring des Nibelungen" for the first time here, thanks to a $6 million donation from philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, the company announced Wednesday.
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As its record-setting campaign heads to the finish line, the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday announced a $10 million gift from State Street Corp. , the largest single contribution from a corporation in the museum's history.
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Calling all opera lovers with a few spare millions: The house where Giuseppe Verdi wrote Rigoletto is up for sale.
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If the proposed merger of the regulatory operations of NASD and the New York Stock Exchange is completed, every NASD members will receive a $35,000 payment.
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A couple of odd shows are planned for the Los Angeles Opera's '08- 09 season.  First there's consummate New Yorker Woody Allen, who has agreed to fly to L.A.
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MARINE CITY -- Following a lifetime of helping people through his church work, the Rev. Donald Bartone&#39;s $575,000 gift will help renew that dedication nearly two years after his death.