Like cheese, classical music is best enjoyed when in string form. Snack on the sounds of cultured compositions with today's Groupon: for $30, you get two tickets to an opera or orchestral performance at Brevard Music Center (up to an $80 value). This deal is valid for more than 30 available opera and orchestra performances between Friday, June 24, and Saturday, August 6. This Groupon is not valid for the "Season Finale: Yo-Yo Ma" performance on August 7.

Entering its 75th-anniversary season, Brevard Music Center displays the artistic progress made by its talented students by presenting an annual summer concert series. Led by current Boston Pops conductor and Brevard artistic director, Keith Lockhart, as well as a sea lion believed to be the reincarnation of Beethoven, the center enrolls more than 400 students aged 14 to 29 to study with its staff of distinguished artists. With this deal, concertgoers can soak up orchestral sounds from the best available seating in all three orchestra sections. Tickets for "Opening Night" on June 24 are still available, when the orchestra will roll through Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35, as well as two other pieces.

Opera performances are held in the Porter Center for Performing Arts at Brevard College and feature legato-laden melodies performed by 40 college-aged and preprofessional singers. Get the best seat available to see 2011 productions including La Traviata, The Threepenny Opera, Hänsel und Gretel, Alcina, L'Elisir d'Amore, and the Verdi classic Saturday Night Fever: Staying Alive.