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New York’s Met Opera has announced that it will offer $25 (£16.90) tickets for the best seats for weekend evening performances through a weekly online draw.

Pigs are happier when they listen to classical music, according to a team of scientists from Wageningen University in The Netherlands.

The Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and Fauxharmonic Orchestra recently joined forces to present a comparison of live versus digitalised sound at floating concert hall Bargemusic.

The Heath Quartet has been awarded first prize in the 2008 Tromp International Music Competition, held in Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

Swedish pop group the Knife has been commissioned to write an opera inspired by Charles Darwin's revolutionary book On the Origin of Species, which was published 150 years ago.