Michigan Opera Theatre opens its 2007 Spring Opera Season, sponsored by Cadillac, with Giacomo Puccini's Turandot, a timeless opera of sacrificial love, secret identity and heartless beauty, with six performances, April 21-29, 2007. Michigan Opera Theatre has previously presented Turandot three times, most recently in 1998.

On Saturday, March 31, General Motors Corporation honored Mann + Hummel with its prestigious Corporation of the Year award. The award was presented during GM's 15th annual Supplier of the Year ceremony in Orlando, Fla

The renowned New York-based Vanguard Jazz Orchestra is coming to Detroit for one night only. The 16-person jazz orchestra will bring their Big Band swing and bebop sound to the Orchestra Hall stage at the Max M. Fisher Music Center on Friday, April 20 at 8 p.m. as part of the DSO's LaSalle Bank Paradise Jazz Series.

Some of the biggest R&B, pop and country hits of the 20th century, all written by the one-and-only Ray Charles, will be performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and special guest vocalist Dee Daniels at the next DTE Energy Foundation Pops concerts. This "Ray Charles Tribute" will feature such memorable hits as "Hit the Road Jack," "Georgia on My Mind" and "What'd I Say," and will be led by guest conductor Chelsea Tipton II.

April is "Jazz Appreciation Month" and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra pays tribute with its first-ever DSO Jazz Symposium. Taking place on Wednesday, April 11 at 7 p.m. in The Music Box at the Max M. Fisher Music Center, the event welcomes a panel of renowned jazz educators, musicians and aficionados led by Branford Marsalis, the DSO's 2006-07 Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director.

The Bill Lucas Quartet, led by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's very own Bill Lucas, a member of the trumpet section since 1988, makes its debut at Jazz Club @ The Max on Friday, April 13 with performances at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams will conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in his own works in Orchestra Hall later this month. The program includes Adams' Violin Concert with soloist Leila Josefowicz, and his stirring tribute to the victims of September 11, 2001, the Pulitzer Prize-winning On the Transmigration of Souls.