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Ellicott City briefs

With a rented set that once belonged to the now defunct Baltimore Opera Company, that organization's successor, Lyric Opera Baltimore, opens its third season with Puccini's 'Tosca.'

On Sunday night, before Pearl Jam played its fifth song, Eddie Vedder addressed the sold-out crowd.

Dr. Alan Ross, a longtime faculty member of Johns Hopkins University whose love of numbers fed his career and also an enjoyment of baseball, died Sept. 7 at Roland Park Place. He was 87.

Lillian N. Conklin, a retired private school admissions director, died June 14 from colitis at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 85.

Ticketmaster and other ticket sellers could add unlimited fees to the price of admission for concerts and sporting events under legislation approved by a key City Council committee on Tuesday.

Amy Schumer can tell a story. Knowing how to craft a short narrative and make it pay off with a laugh has, after all, helped make her one of the hottest comedians on TV and the concert circuit these days.

The Lyric Opera Baltimore production brings tenor Bryan Hymel back to town to play the role of the vile, lecherous Duke.

Finally home, Beach House -- the dreampop duo from Baltimore -- performed songs from "Teen Dream" and "Bloom" Friday night at the Lyric Opera House.

Lyric Opera Baltimore presented a concert of bel canto excerpts performed by a group of young, lively singers, including Daniela Mack and Alek Shrader.

'Appalachian Spring' Baltimore School for the Arts performance is first time high school granted permission to produce ballet in original form.

Charles C. Freitag, the longtime director of the music program at Calvert Hall College High School where he was also a founder of its marching, concert and dance bands, died Monday from heart failure at Stella Maris Hospice. The Mays Chapel resident was 92.

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There's a light and dark theme running through the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's 2013-2014 season, which includes works dealing with great loss, as well as great compassion.

A City Council committee approved a bill Thursday that would allow companies such as Ticketmaster to continue to charge unlimited fees in selling tickets to events in Baltimore.

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The Baltimore City Council is poised to carve out an exception to its long-standing anti-scalping law to make clear that Ticketmaster can continue to charge user fees that irritate many customers.

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The stage at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall lies under a four-story ceiling, commanding an auditorium that seats more than 2,400 people — bigger than any hall most members of the Howard County Gifted and Talented Orchestra have ever played.