Utah Opera's season-opening production of Puccini's "La Boheme" continues this week at the Capitol Theatre, with performances Oct. 16, 18 and 20 at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee Sunday, Oct. 22, at 2 p.m. Currently all performances are sold out, but turnbacks and/or standing room tickets may be available; for information call 355-2787.
Stage-directed by Francis Cullinan, the opera is sung in Italian with English Supertitles. Soprano Rosemary Musoleno sings Mimi and tenor Jianyi Zhang sings Rodolfo, with Katherine Terrell as Musetta, Brian Davis as Marcello, Ryan Allen as Colline, Robert Sapolsky as Schuanard and Shawn Roy doubling as Benoit and Alcindoro.Anton Coppola conducts members of the Utah Symphony, with costumes by Susan Memmott Allred and lighting by Nicholas Cavallaro.
- THE RIGA DOME Boys Choir of Latvia will perform Monday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Though the choir has a 45-year history, the dramatic change in world politics five years ago made possible the founding of its own choir school. Directed by Janis Erenstreits, the group specializes in sacred music and performed for President and Mrs. Clinton during their visit to Latvia in 1994.
Part of their second world tour, Tuesday's concert, which is free, will present the choir in music of Victoria, Handel, Mozart and Britten along with a group of Latvian folk songs. In addition the group's accompanist, Aivars Kalejs, will be heard in the Toccata from Widor's Organ Symphony No. 5.
The choir will also perform this morning with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on its "Music and the Spoken Word" broadcast at 9:30 a.m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle.
- CELLIST PAUL JOINES, flutist Jeannine Goeckeritz and pianist Yu Jane Yang will present a faculty recital Monday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Monson Theatre of Weber State University's Browning Center for the Performing Arts.
The three will be featured, in various combinations, in sonatas of Telemann, Demase and Prokofiev as well as Copland's Duo for Flute and Piano. The public is invited and admission is free.
- THE PHOENIX JAZZ and Swing Band will join the Jay Welch Chorale for a "Sentimental Journey" on Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
Directed by Sterling Poulson, the chorale will sing hits from the big-band era, including "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and Welch's arrangements of "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me." Under Doug Boll, the band will perform "Stardust," "American Patrol" and, with vocals by Myrlene Korologos and Dick Anderson, "The Lady Is a Tramp" and "Just the Way You Look Tonight."
Admission is free but limited to those 8 and older.
- FLUTIST KEITH UNDERWOOD and guitarist Benjamin Verdery return to Utah for a week of programs to be presented Oct. 17-22 under the auspices of the Utah Flute Association.
The two New York-based artists will perform Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall of Brigham Young University's Harris Fine Arts Center in Provo. Then the following day, from 5 to 7 p.m., they will conduct a master class and group lessons, also in Madsen. For information call 221-7955.
On Thursday, Oct. 19, they will present a free concert at 10:30 a.m. in the choral room of Weber State University's Browning Center in Ogden, followed by a concert Friday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. at Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church, 175 S. 700 East, in Salt Lake City. Admission to this is $10 ($8 students/seniors, $5 UFA members).
More master classes and group lessons will be conducted all day Saturday, Oct. 21, at Westminster College's Nunemaker Place, with a jazz improvisation workshop set Sunday, Oct. 22, from 3 to 5 p.m.; for information call 272-2225.
Underwood performs with the New York Chamber Soloists, the contemporary group Parnassus, Jazz Antiqua, the Arcadia Baroque Ensemble and the Riverside Symphony. Verdery has performed with Leo Kottke, Paco Pena and John Williams and is on the faculty of Yale University.
- THE REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE has been invited to be one of three featured dance companies at the the Doris Humphrey Centennial Celebration in New York Oct. 20-22. The event commemorates the late Humphrey's 100th birthday. RDT will perform "Fantasy and Fugue" and "Night Spell" during two gala performances.
To prepare, RDT will offer a free hourlong lunchtime performance on Wednesday, Oct. 18, at noon at the RDT studio, 158 W. 300 South. This informal performance will offer the community a chance to see how dances are put together and rehearsed. The public is welcome to bring a lunch and watch.
- BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY trombonist Dan Bachelder will present a free faculty recital Wednesday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall.
Joined by his wife, soprano Lila Stuart-Bachelder, and pianist Dian Baker-Drinkall, he will be heard in a variety of pieces for trombone and euphonium. Included will be Arthur Pryor's "Bluebells of Scotland," Duparc's "Romance de Mignon" and a set of variations on "Carnival of Venice" by Joseph Arans.
- BYU OPERA THEATRE'S production of Jacques Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann" grand opera will be presented Oct. 18-21 and 27-28 at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center.
With sets purchased from Dallas Civic Opera, the production will open Wednesday. Tickets, available at the Fine Arts Ticket Office (378-4322), are $10 ($9 senior citizens and alumni, $8 students, faculty and staff, with tickets for the Oct. 18 and 19 preview performances half price).
Directed by Clayne Robison, each of the opera's stories will be set in a different architectural period. The opera, which will be performed in English, opens in a cellar tavern beneath the opera house where the German poet E.T.A. Hoffmann's love, Stella, is performing in "Don Giovanni." Then, through his tales, the action moves to various locales and time periods as he recalls his lost loves.
The large cast will include tenors Clint Miller, James Mangan and Ryan Olsen alternating as Hoffmann, with Veronica Hanson and Kristi Thomas alternating as the mechanical doll, Olympia. Debra Bounous and Diane Arnett will alternate as the courtesan Giulietta, with Kaarin Saftsen and Kristalyn Thornock as Antonia. Hoffmann's evil nemesis will be sung by baritones Darren Watts and Christopher Holmes.
Walter Birkedahl will conduct members of the BYU Philharmonic, with costumes by Janet Swenson and lighting by Rory Scanlon.
- THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH'S Utah Philharmonia begins its fifth season this week with a concert on Thursday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Gardner Hall.
Featured will be U. faculty member Bonnie Gritton, who will solo in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9. In addition music director Robert Debbaut will lead the orchestra in the Overture to Wagner's "Rienzi," the Utah premiere of "Rhapsodies" by David Carlson - composer of Utah Opera's centennial commission, "Dreamkeepers" - and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol."
Admission is $6 ($3 students/seniors, $2 U. students), at the door.
- "YOUNG ARTISTS in Concert," a program to benefit the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children, will be presented Thursday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, South Temple and C streets.
Performing will be 10 former "Salute to Youth" soloists: clarinetist Jaren Hinckley, trombonist Bryce Mecham, violinists Rosalie Lund and Jennifer Ward, violist Amanda Ridge, cellist Ryan Swigert, harpist Cate Cannon Todd and pianists Dustin Gledhill, Christie Peery and Jenny Naylor. They will be heard in music of Bloch, Bruch, Liszt, Handel, Schumann, Rabaud, Pergolesi and Grandjany.
Admission is $10, or $6 for students.
- CONDUCTOR RACHAEL WORBY makes her Utah Symphony debut this week, leading the orchestra in concerts Thursday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at Weber State University's Browning Center and Friday and Saturday, Oct. 20 and 21, at 8 p.m. at Abravanel Hall.
The wife of West Virginia Gov. Gaston Caperton, Worby is music director of the Wheeling, W.Va., Symphony Orchestra and of the American Composers Orchestra's Carnegie Hall Youth Concerts.
Worby studied piano at the State University of New York at Pottsdam (where she also played in a rock band), going on to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the New England Conservatory of Music. She is currently in her 10th season at Wheeling and last year was named to the National Council on the Arts.
Joining her on this week's programs will be pianist Kevin Kenner. A former BYU student - and 1983 "Salute to Youth" soloist - Kenner is the only American to win medals at both the Tchaikovsky International and Warsaw Chopin competitions. He also took honors in the Van Cliburn and Gina Bachauer international competitions. He currently lives in London.
This week he will solo in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, part of a program that will also feature the orchestra in the same composer's Symphony No. 8 in F major and Ravel's "Mother Goose" Suite.
Tickets to the Salt Lake concerts are priced from $12 to $34; for information call 533-NOTE. For information on the Ogden concert, call 399-0453.
- THE CHAMBER MUSIC Society of Salt Lake City will launch its 1995-96 season this week with a concert Thursday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. at the Museum of Fine Arts on the University of Utah campus.
Performing will be the Guarneri String Quartet, making its 16th appearance on this series - by far the most popular group in the society's history. One of the most acclaimed quartets in the world, the Guarneri's membership has remained unchanged for 30 years - it is still composed of violinists Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley, violist Michael Tree and cellist David Soyer.
Thursday they will be heard in three works: Haydn's Quartet in G minor, Op. 74, No. 3; Janacek's Quartet No. 2 ("Intimate Pages"); and Smetana's Quartet in E minor ("From My Life").
Membership tickets for the season are $70 for six concerts, with individual tickets for Thursday's concert priced at $25 ($5 students). For information call 561-3999.
- JOEL ROSENBERG will lead the American West Symphony and Chorus in a pair of concerts Friday and Saturday, Oct. 20-21, in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.
The program each night will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will consist of music for brass choir of Giovanni Gabrieli, the slow movement from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and excerpts from Act 1 of Verdi's "La Traviata," with soprano Marta Gutierrez and tenor George Dyer as soloists. The chorus is directed by Merlyn Hanks.
There is no charge for admission.
- THE UTAH VALLEY Choral Society will present the first concert of its 1995-96 season Friday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Provo Tabernacle.
Called "A Night at the Opera," the program will feature soprano Susan Alexander as soloist in an evening of highlights from familiar operas. Included will be the Anvil Chorus from Verdi's "Il Trovatore," "The March of the Toreadors" from Bizet's "Carmen" and the "Polovtsian Dances" from Borodin's "Prince Igor," all in the original languages.
Choir director Lois Johnson will present an informal chat at 7 p.m. Tickets are $6 ($4 students/seniors) or $15 per family. Season passes, priced from $12 to $50, are also available.
- THE CHILDREN'S DANCE THEATRE will peform "The Rag Coat" at the Eccles Theatre in Logan on Friday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $6 ($3 children and USU students).
"The Rag Coat" is a story about a young girl who is looking forward to starting school. When her father dies working in a coal mine, she finds comfort in a coat made from bits of cloth from her father's work shirt and other significant clothing.
- THE RUTH GATRELL Singers will present their fourth annual fall concert Friday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Farmington City Hall, 130 N. Main in Farmington. Featured on the free program will be the award-winning "Let Us Go to the Temple," "I Like to Listen to the Prophet" and "The Lord My Pasture Will Prepare," as well as Gatrell's most recent song, "Abide in My Love."
Admission is free.
- THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER of Job's Daughters will present renowned soprano Linda Kelm in recital on Saturday, Oct. 21, at the Salt Lake Masonic Temple, 650 E. South Temple.
A native of Salt Lake City, Kelm studied voice at Westminster College before winning a scholarship to the Aspen Music Festival. Since then she has sung lead roles with San Francisco Opera, Utah Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Seattle Opera - as the acclaimed Bruennhilde of that company's "Ring" cycle - and with the orchestras of Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Minnesota and Los Angeles. She has also performed with major orchestras in England, Italy and Japan.
For her recital Saturday, which begins at 8 p.m., Kelm has assembled a program of German and French music, including songs of Brahms, Schubert, Strauss, Gounod, Massenet and Franck, as well as arias of Beethoven ("Ah! Perfido!"), Wagner and Gluck.
She will be accompanied by Alexander Coburn.
Tickets are priced from $35 to $50, including a reception following the concert. All proceeds will go Job's Daughters' 1997 Supreme Session, to be held in Utah. For information call 466-5149 or 479-3172.
- BRAZILIAN PIANIST Eny da Rocha will be the featured soloist at the fall concert of the Mormon Youth Chorus and Symphony, to be presented Saturday, Oct. 21, at 8 p.m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle.
A native of Sao Paulo, Eny da Rocha made her debut with the Radio Gazeta Symphony at age 12. As a recitalist she has performed in Vienna, Paris, Lisbon, Rome, Cologne, Madrid and Brussels. She recently released the CD "Brazilian Soul," recorded and produced in Utah.
Saturday she will solo in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor. In addition music director Robert C. Bowden will lead the orchestra in Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5," with soprano Shawna Gottfredson as soloist, and Schubert's Symphony No. 8, the "Unfinished" Symphony.
Admission is free.