Concert Halls Will Be Filled With Mozart : Music: This year is the bicentennial of the composer’s death, and orchestras will be ready for tributes.

Worldwide, 1991 will see the commemoration of the bicentennial of Mozart’s death, at the tragically early age of 35. Locally, the Orange County Philharmonic Society takes the lead in scheduling concerts in honor of this commemoration, including a number of promising operatic events:

* Christopher Perick will conduct the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in a concert version of Mozart’s “Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail” on March 6 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

* The famed Salzburg Marionette Theater will present Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote,” “Don Giovanni” and “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Irvine theater in December. (Exact dates to be announced.)

The Philharmonic Society also plans symphonic and chamber music concerts to focus on the works of this musical genius. Highlights will include:

* Hans Graf will conduct the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg on Feb. 25 and March 4 at the Performing Arts Center. Violinist Ernst Kovacic will be soloist in the first program; pianist Steven Lubin, in the second.

* Philippe Entremont will conduct and be piano soloist with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra on May 3 at the Center.

Local groups also offering music by Mozart include:

* Conductor Larry Granger and the South Coast Symphony playing Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Concerto on Jan. 19 at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa and on Jan. 20 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. Soloist is David Shifrin. Works by Rossini and Nielsen complete the program.

* The Palo Verde Trio will play music by Mozart, Brahms and Shostakovich on Jan. 20 at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton. The concert is sponsored by the Fullerton Friends of Music.

* Ami Porat’s Mozart Camerata will offer its traditional Mozart program Feb. 9 at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church and on Feb. 10 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. Mezzo-soprano Kimball Wheeler will be soloist in a concert aria from “Idomeneo” and two arias from “La Clemenza di Tito.” The “Prague” Symphony and the Overture to “Don Giovanni” complete the program.

* The Angeles Quartet and violist Donald McInnes will play Feb. 26 at the Irvine theater. The concert is sponsored by the Philharmonic Society, which will bring back the quartet with various guest artists at the Irvine theater on April 3 (with pianist Peter Orth), June 11 (clarinetist Michele Zukovsky) and dates to be announced in September (with pianist Jeffrey Kahane) and November (violist Heiichiro Ohyama).

* Christopher Seaman will lead the Pacific Symphony in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 on March 6 and 7 at the Center. Andrea Lucchesini will be the soloist. The program also includes works by Weber and Vaughan Williams.

* Pacific Symphony music director Carl St. Clair will lead the orchestra in Mozart’s Symphony No. 34 in a program that also includes works by Brahms and Strauss on March 27 and 28 at the Center.

* The Southwest Chamber Music Society will play Mozart’s Violin Sonata in A, K. 305, on April 4 at Chapman College in Orange. Works by Krenek and Bartok complete the program.

* William Hall will conduct the Master Chorale of Orange County in Mozart’s Requiem on April 14 at the Center. Soloists include soprano Jennifer Trost, mezzo-soprano Bernice Brightbill, tenor Jonathan Mack and bass Louis Lebherz.

* John Alexander will conduct the Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony in Mozart’s Requiem on April 27 at the Center. Soloists will include soprano Virginia Sublett, mezzo-soprano Debbie Cree, tenor Jonathan Mack and bass Louis Lebherz.

* St. Clair will lead the Pacific in Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365, with duo pianists Ariana Goldina and Remy Loumbrozo, on May 8 and 9 at the Center. Orff’s “Carmina Burana” is also on the program.

Notable non-Mozart programs include:

OPERA

* Opera Pacific’s season opens Jan. 12 with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” and continues on Feb. 15 with Bizet’s “Le Pecheurs de Perles” and on Feb. 20 with Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera,” all at the Center.

* The Los Angeles Music Center Opera will open Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West” on June 5 and 8 at the Center before taking the Teatro Colon production north for a five-performance run in Los Angeles. Placido Domingo will sing Dick Johnson opposite Gwyneth Jones as Minnie. Justino Diaz will sing Jack Rance. Richard Buckley will conduct.

OTHER MUSIC

* The Camerata Musica will appear on the Laguna Chamber Music Series on Jan. 12 at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach.

* Violinist Itzhak Perlman will give a Philharmonic Society-sponsored recital Jan. 14 at the Center.

* Yevgeny Svetlanov will conduct the U.S.S.R. State Symphony on Jan. 26 at the Center. The concert is sponsored by the Philharmonic Society.

* The Vienna Schubert Trio will play works by Schubert and Ravel on Jan. 31 at Founders Hall at the Performing Arts Center.

* Pianist Ivo Pogorelich will give a recital March 9 at the Center. The program is sponsored by the Philharmonic Society.

* The Westminster Choir will sing on March 24 at the Evangelical Free Church, 2801 Brea Blvd., Fullerton. The concert is sponsored by the North Orange County Community Concerts Assn.

* Soprano Kathleen Battle will give a Philharmonic Society-sponsored recital on April 18 at the Center.

* Ted Reid will lead the Orange Coast Chorale in Haydn’s “The Creation” on May 18 at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.

DANCE

* The big dance event in 1991 promises to be the appearance, Jan. 4-6, of the Martha Graham Dance Company at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa. This breathlessly short engagement marks the Center’s first sponsorship of modern dance and may give local audiences their first view of such classics as “Appalachian Spring” and “Herodiade,” as well the nonagenarian choreographer’s more recent works, such as “Maple Leaf Rag,” introduced in October (1990).

* Chicago’s acclaimed modern dance troupe, the Hubbard Street Dance Company, will offer Twyla Tharp’s “Sue’s Leg” and Daniel Ezralow’s “Super Straight Is Coming Down,” on a program of six works, Jan. 24-26 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre in Irvine.

* The Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre Company will make its first Orange County appearance April 25 at the Irvine theater. The engagement is sponsored by UC Irvine’s Arts and Lectures division.

* Ballet lovers will have to wait until American Ballet Theatre returns to the Center for a two-week run, beginning March 12. Works will include full-length productions of “Coppelia” and “La Bayadere” and programs of mixed repertory, including works by Kenneth MacMillan, Jiri Kylian and Clark Tippet.

ETC.

* The Soviet Acrobatic Revue will give to performances Feb. 9 at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.

* Performance artist Rachel Rosenthal will present her one-woman work, “Pangaean Dreams,” on May 31 at Orange Coast College.