• Bill Frisell and John Scofield — The guitar legends bring their trios together. 8 p.m. today (Feb. 11), Jackson Hall. Preperformance talk, 7 p.m., Jackson Hall, with Frisell, Scofield and Jeremy Ganter, the Mondavi Center's associate executive director and the center's director of programming.
• New Century Chamber Orchestra — Led by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin. Program: Wolf's Italian Serenade, Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances, Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48. In the Classical Favorites: Seasons series, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, Jackson Hall.
• La Rondine — A filmed version of the Puccini opera, as presented by the San Francisco Opera with "superstar soprano" Angela Gheorghiu in 2007. La Rondine is the story of a wordly woman who falls in love with a naïve younger man. 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17, Jackson Hall.
Tickets are available , or by visiting or calling the Mondavi Center box office, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787
Just added
Tony Bennett has never had a chance to leave his heart at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
But last week the center announced two “just added” events for the 2010-11 season: Bennett and comedian Sarah Silverman, who also will be performing at the center for the first time.
Silverman, dubbed “the most outrageously funny woman alive” by Rolling Stone magazine, is scheduled to take the stage in Jackson Hall at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 10.
Bennett, whose “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” is a musical gold standard, is scheduled to perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, also on the Jackson Hall stage.
Tickets for both “just added” events are set to go on sale on Monday, Feb. 14. The tickets will be available , or by visiting or calling the Mondavi Center box office, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787
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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu