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AT THE MONDAVI: Tony Bennett, Sarah Silverman 'just added'

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Tony Bennett is due on stage at the Mondavi Center on May 25.

Tony Bennett has never had a chance to leave his heart at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

But this 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.

SF Opera's Grand Cinema Series

The Mondavi Center describes her as a "superstar soprano," and now Angela Gheorghiu is coming to Jackson Hall, or, rather, the movie screen in Jackson Hall.

She will be appearing in in Puccini's La Rondine, the story of a wordly woman who falls in love with a naïve younger man — as captured on film when the Romanian-born Gheorghiu made her long-awaited debut at the San Francisco Opera in 2007.

La Rondine, from the San Francisco Opera Grand Cinema Series, is scheduled for presentation at the Mondavi Center at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17.

More at the Mondavi

• Vijay Iyer: Historicity Trio — The pianist performs off of his first trio album, Historicity, in the Jazz series. Continues at 8 p.m. today-Saturday, Feb. 3-5, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre.

UC Davis Symphony Orchestra — Brahms' Double Concerto, featuring Andrea Segar on violin and David Russell on cello, and led by D. Kern Holoman, conductor emeritus; and Sibelius' Symphony No. 7 in C Major, led by Christian Baldini, the orchestra's music director and conductor. 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, Jackson Hall.

Joshua Bell — The violinist returns to the Mondavi Center on the heels of a sold-out 2010 appearance. With Sam Haywood, piano, in the Concert series. 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall.

Bill Frisell and John Scofield — The guitar legends bring their trios together. 8 p.m. Friday, 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.

Tickets are 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

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