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2006 Opening Nights and Galas - Symphony Orchestras and Opera Companies

By Aaron Green, About.com

San Francisco Opera:
  • Date: September 8
  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Performance: Verdi's A Masked Ball
  • Starring: Debora Voigt, soprano
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra:
  • Date: September 30
  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Performance: Rossini's Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers; Yanov-Yanovsky's Night Music: Voice in the Leaves, Stravinsky's The Nightingale, Dvorak's Cello Concerto
  • Starring:Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Cyndia Sieden, soprano
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The Metropolitan Opera:
  • Date: September 25
  • Time: 6:30 PM
  • Performance: Puccini's Madama Butterfly
  • Starring: Cristina Gallardo-Domâs; Marcello Giordani; Dwayne Croft
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra:
  • Date: September 21
  • Time: 8:00 PM
  • Performance: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9; Higdon's Dooryard Bloom; Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music
  • Starring: Robert Spano, conductor
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Boston Symphony Orchestra:
  • Date: September 29
  • Time: 6:30 PM
  • Performance: Balcom's Lyric Concerto for flute and orchestra; Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Gershwin's Summer Time and My Man's Gone Now from Porgy and Bess; Dvorak's Symphony No. 9
  • Starring: Renee Fleming, soprano; Sir James Galway, flute
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New York Philharmonic:
  • Date: September 13
  • Time: 7:30 PM
  • Performance: Beethoven's Egmont Overture; Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos in E-Flat; Beethoven's Symphony No. 3
  • Starring: Emanuel Axe, piano; Yefim Bronfman, piano
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Los Angeles Philharmonic:
  • Date: September 28
  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Performance: Ravel's Mother Goose Suite; Falla's Master Peter's Puppet Show; Ravel's Bolero
  • Starring: Awet Andemicael, soprano; Agustin Prunell-Friend, tenor; Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone
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Kansas City Symphony:
  • Date: September 8
  • Time: 8:00 PM
  • Performance: Dvorak's Symphonic Variations; Chen Yi's Four Seasons; Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Starring: Jon Kimura Parker, piano
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Lyric Opera of Chicago:
  • Date: September 16
  • Time: 6:30 PM
  • Performance: Puccini's Turandot
  • Starring: Andrea Gruber, soprano; Vladimir Galouzine, tenor
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