Tickets for the Metropolitan Opera's first live high-definition broadcasts into movie theaters will go on sale. As part of the company's efforts to build a larger audience around the globe, the Met is launching "Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD," a series of six performances to be broadcast live via satellite into movie theaters across the U.S. and Canada, with select titles broadcast in the United Kingdom.

Live backstage interviews and dynamic new content will revitalize iconic broadcast series to appeal to a broader audience. Season launches with Mozart's Idomeneo on Saturday, December 9 and runs through Saturday, May 5.

Country Energy Proms on Tour will bring Sydney Opera House's own Proms Orchestra into the backyards of children across northwest and central western New South Wales, taking in Bathurst, Mudgee, Coonabarabran, Gilgandra, Dubbo and Parkes.

From 17 - 27 January 2007, Sydney Opera House together with Sydney Festival present the visionary new dance work, Kaidan, by the internationally acclaimed Australian director, choreographer and designer, Meryl Tankard.

A breathtaking display of skill from a line-up of world class performers, Paradise City is an eye-popping fusion of street-style, dance and physical performance. Set in a stark urban space that is littered with road barriers, a plush red velvet curtain and a quarter pipe skateboard ramp Paradise City is a landscape shaped by the people that inhabit it.

This extraordinary collaboration between the ubiquitous San Francisco based string quartet, Kronos Quartet and the Queen of Bollywood film, Asha Bhosle, performs for one night only in the Concert Hall on Friday 9th March 2007.

One of Australia's best known artists, John Coburn, died on November 7, aged 81. In tribute to Coburn, Sydney Opera House will display the two monumental works for which he is perhaps most remembered - the Curtain of the Sun and the Curtain of the Moon, in the two venues for which they were created.