MET Orchestra Coming to Center
The MET Orchestra, conducted by James Levine, will play at the Orange County Performing Arts Center May 17 and 18. The concerts will be the orchestra’s only appearances in Southern California.
The first concert will be a Strauss program including “Tod und Verklarung,” “Don Quixote” and the Four Last Songs, with soloist Margaret Price. The May 18 program will include the Suite from Stravinsky’s “The Firebird,” Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” and Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
The MET is the resident orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, where Levine is artistic director. Price began her long and distinguished career as Cherubino in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Welsh National Opera in 1962.
A gala dinner package that includes the May 17 concert will be offered to benefit the center, Opera Pacific and the Orange County Philharmonic Society, which normally sponsors orchestral concerts in the facility.
“This is a perfect example” of Orange County arts groups working together, center president Tom Tomlinson said Wednesday. “This is an extremely expensive attraction that might not otherwise be possible for our patrons.”
Ticket prices and sale dates will be announced.
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