Toledo Opera is staging `Rigoletto' at Valentine

10/11/2001

The Toledo Opera will present Verdi's Rigoletto at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Valentine Theatre. Tomorrow's tickets range from $30 to $75, Sunday's from $20 to $55. Information: 255-7464.

wThe University of Toledo Wind Ensemble will perform music of Berlioz, Milhaud, and others at 8 p.m. tomorrow in UT's Doermann Theater.

Singer/composer Paul Williams will appear with the Toledo Symphony at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Stranahan Theater. Tickets range from $20 to $50. Information: 246-8000.

wPianist Leif Ove Andsnes will join conductor Franz Welser-Most and the Cleveland Orchestra in a program of music by Salonen, Haydn, Lutoslawski, and Brahms at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle. Tickets range from $20 to $55. Information: 246-8000.

wBayanihan, the Philippine National Dance Company, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Valentine Theatre. Tickets range from $15 to $45. Information: 242-2787.

REGIONAL

The Baroque ensemble Red Priest will perform at 7:30 tonight in Bluffton's Yoder Recital Hall on the Bluffton College campus. Tickets are $10, $8 for seniors and students. Information: 419-358-3347.

Bluffton College will hold its annual choir festival at 4 p.m. Sunday in Yoder Recital Hall.

MICHIGAN

Claudio Abbado will lead the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in an all-Beethoven program at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium, 825 North University Avenue. Tickets range from $30 to $85. Information: 800-221-1229.

wMichigan Opera Theatre will present Bizet's Carmen at 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, and 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Detroit Opera House. Tickets range from $18 to $90. Information: 313-237-7464.

wConductor John Dodson will lead the Adrian Symphony Orchestra in a program of music by Beethoven, Dvorak, and Wagner at 8 p.m. Saturday in Adrian College's Dawson Auditorium.