Mauceri adds 2 years to his Bowl tenure

John Mauceri has been tapped to lead the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra for two more years, Los Angeles Philharmonic Assn. officials announced Tuesday at a news conference detailing the Bowl’s summer season.

The season officially opens June 27, when PBS tenor Josh Groban joins Mauceri and the Bowl Orchestra for a Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame Gala program to benefit the Philharmonic’s educational activities.

The Bowl Orchestra offers a Sunday series of concerts that will include a concert performance of Verdi’s “La Traviata” with Elizabeth Futral and Frank Lopardo on July 13 and a semi-staged production of “My Fair Lady” on Aug. 3.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will join Mauceri and the Bowl Orchestra in a “Romantic Shakespeare” program Aug. 15 and 16. Mauceri also will lead his annual Hollywood Musicals night, with live music and film clips from “West Side Story,” “Kiss Me Kate” and other movies on Aug. 31.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic headlines the Bowl’s classical programming Tuesdays and Thursdays, opening July 8 with conductor Andreas Delfs and piano soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Esa-Pekka Salonen’s first concert will be July 22.

Jeffrey Kahane will lead the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard in a survey of all five Beethoven piano concertos, Aug. 12 and 14.

Eclectic events will include the West Coast premiere of a “Sing-A-Long Wizard of Oz” on July 5.

As part of the World Festival events on Sunday evenings, Yo-Yo Ma will appear in a program of Latin American music Aug. 10.

In the Jazz at the Bowl Wednesday series, Joao Gilberto will make his first Bowl appearance since 1964 on July 23; the series includes Wayne Shorter and Oscar Peterson.

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