The Minnesota Opera has added three performances of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville to its Spring schedule. In addition to the previously announced performances on April 11, 14, 16, 18 and 19, the company has engaged another cast of principal singers for performances on Wednesday, April 15 and Friday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m., and a 2:00 matinee performance on Saturday, April 18.

Boston Lyric Opera is excited to announce its popular Opera for School Children program for Spring 2009. The lively production, a condensed version of Mozart’s adventurous and colorful rescue opera, The Magic Flute, will be available to students in grades 3-8 in schools throughout New England.

Skylight Opera will present The Producers running from November 28, 2008 to January 4, 2009.

Scottish Opera presents The Secret Marriage, another highly entertaining production from the creative team behind Cinderella - which sold out venues all over Scotland and enjoyed a successful run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

This autumn, Glyndebourne on Tour will give performances of The Magic Flute, Hansel und Gretel and Carmen especially for schools and colleges. This education initiative gives 3,500 students from across the south east and further afield the opportunity to enjoy professional opera. Glyndebourne is the only opera company outside of London to present fully-staged opera performances exclusively for young people.

Continuing its innovative use of electronic media to reach a global audience, the Metropolitan Opera introduces Met Player, a new subscription service that will make its extensive video and audio catalog of full-length performances available to the public for the first time online, and in exceptional, state-of-the-art quality.

Perhaps you’ve watched the endearingly goofy Brendan Fraser in Bedazzled. Or maybe you’ve witnessed Keanu Reeves in The Devil’s Advocate. Both of these films are loosely based on or inspired by the story of Faust, the man who made a pact with the devil.

Utah Opera Artistic Director Christopher McBeth today announced Utah Opera’s complete 2008-2009 season offerings. The season opens in October with Puccini’s beloved Madame Butterfly, followed by the Utah Opera’s premiere of Blitzstein’s Reginain January.

Utah Opera presents Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at Capitol Theatre on October 18, 20, 22 and 24 at 7:30 pm and October 26 at 2:00 pm. The opera will be sung in Italian with English supertitles. To celebrate the opening of the 2008-2009 season there will be an elegant Soiree preceding the opening night performance at the City Center Marriott as well as a post-performance celebration in the same location.

Some 25,000 Chicago-area schoolchildren will be introduced to opera thanks to Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Opera in the Neighborhoods program. Produced by The Patrick G. and Shirley W.

For the first time, the Metropolitan Opera will present a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams: Doctor Atomic, his opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb. The piece is set in New Mexico in the summer of 1945, as scientists, led by Oppenheimer, and the military prepare to test the first nuclear bomb, events that will radically change the course and fabric of history.

The LYRIC SEASON COMPANION and COMMENTARIES ON CD thoroughly explore the operas of Lyric’s 54th season: Massenet’s Manon, Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers, Berg’s Lulu, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, and Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio.