Marin Alsop has gotten a lot of press recently as the first woman to be music director of a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony. But, depending on your definition of "major," JoAnn Falletta was there first, taking over the Buffalo (N.Y.) Philharmonic in 1998.

The Dallas Opera Guild will present the 20th annual "Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition," a showcase for talented young opera singers who either come from Texas or got here "as fast as they could" on Saturday, April 19, 2008 in Gooch Auditorium on the campus of UT Southwestern Medical Center, located at 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard (at Butler).

Texas Ballet Theater presents Ben Stevenson's renowned masterpiece, Dracula, at Dallas' Music Hall at Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall April 18, 19 and 20. Ticket prices start at $18.

Texas Ballet Theater, Dallas and Fort Worth's preeminent professional ballet company, today announced that the Youth Ensembles of its Texas Ballet Theater School Dallas Campus recently received a total of 16 awards at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) – Semi Finals International Ballet and Contemporary Dance Competition held at the Irving Performing Arts Center in Irving, Texas.

The O’Donnell Foundation announces the opening of the Young Masters’ Juried Exhibition, running through May 4, 2008, comprising over thirty-seven two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art created by students from ten area high schools participating in the Advanced Placement Studio Arts Incentive Program.

Discovering Texas: The Works of Robert Jenkins Onderdonk provides an intimate look at nearly three dozen paintings, watercolors, and drawings spanning the career of one of Early Texas’s most important artists.

The Dallas Museum of Art recently acquired Jacques-Louis David's dramatic work, Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe, through the Mrs. John B. O'Hara Fund of the Foundation for the Arts as the newest addition to the Museum's permanent collection, it was announced by John R. Lane, the Eugene McDermott Director of the DMA.

Theatre Three is proud to present the world premiere of The LaVidas' Landlord by Lawrence Weinstein as the fifth production in the 2007-2008 Theatre Too Season. The LaVidas' Landlord begins on Friday, March 14, 2008 and will close on Sunday, March 30, 2008.

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra announces its 2008-2009 season, Unleashed, the orchestra's 108th since its founding, and first under the DSO's much-anticipated new Music Director Jaap (pronounced YAP) van Zweden (pronounced van ZVAY-den).

A cutting-edge educational museum, the Dallas Museum of Art’s training programs continue to expand, as the 2007–2008 class of McDermott Curatorial Interns are organizing the first-ever intern-curated exhibition, titled Either Side of Gray: Exploring Black and White.

Beginning May 18, 2008 an running through August 24, 2008 , On Kawara: 10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages, the first U.S. museum exhibition in 15 years of internationally renowned artist On Kawara's work— and one of the largest major presentations of his work anywhere—will go on view in the Dallas Museum of Art's Barrel Vault and Hanley, Lamont, Rachofsky and Stoffel Quadrant Galleries.

At a press conference today, Dallas County district attorney Craig Watkins presented several documents and items relating to the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. They were discovered over a year ago in a safe at the county courthouse.