Concerts

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Friday, December 5, 2008

CONCERTS

Prices listed where available

Opera

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OPERA Friday at 7 and Saturday at 2 and 4. The group performs "Amahl and the Night Visitors." Toys collected for Toys for Tots. George Washington University, Betts Theatre, 800 21st St. NW. 202-994-6245 or http://www.gwu.edu/music. Free.

VIRGINIA OPERA Friday at 8 and Saturday at 2. The group performs Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love." George Mason University, Center for the Arts, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax. 888-945-2468 or http://www.tickets.com. Friday, $44-$86; Saturday, $48-$98.

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY OPERA WORKSHOP Friday at 8 and Saturday at 2 and 7. The group performs "Amahl and the Night Visitors." St. George's United Methodist Church, 4910 Ox Rd., Fairfax. 703-385-4550, 703-993-8888 or http://www.stgumc.org. $20, $10 for students and children.

BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY Saturday at 7:30, through Dec. 13. The group performs Verdi's "La Traviata." Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville. 301-266-7546 or http://www.belcantanti.com. $35, $25 students.

ANNAPOLIS OPERA Sunday at 3. The group performs "Bel Canto by Candlelight." First Presbyterian Church, 165 Duke of Gloucester St., Annapolis. 410-280-5640, 410-267-8135 or http://www.annapolisopera.org. $30, $25 for students.

BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30. The group performs Verdi's "La Traviata." Embassy of Austria, 3524 International Ct. NW. 301-266-7546 or http://www.belcantanti.com. $35, $25 students.

Orchestras

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Friday at 1:30. Itzhak Perlman performs J. S. Bach's Violin Concerto and will also conduct the orchestra in selections by Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Kennedy Center, Concert Hall, 2700 F St. NW. 202-467-4600, 800-444-1324 or http://www.kennedy-center.org. $20-$80.

UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Friday at 8. Guest artist Douglas Fitch partners with the orchestra to present a puppet, movement and video show to the music to Stravinsky's "Petrushka." Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall, University of Maryland, Route 193 and Stadium Drive, College Park. 301-405-2787 or http://www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu. $25.

BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Friday at 8. Marin Alsop conducts the BSO and the Morgan State University Choir in "Too Hot to Handel: The Gospel Messiah." Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. 301-581-5100 or http://www.strathmore.org. $25-$80.

PRINCE WILLIAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Saturday at 8. "A Baroque Holiday" with music by Bach, Handel and Corelli. Grace E. Metz Middle School, 9950 Wellington Rd., Manassas. 703-659-0103 or http://www.pwso.org. $20,$15 seniors, free for students age 21 and younger.

THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ANNANDALE BRASS ORCHESTRA Sunday at 4. The orchestra and the Christopher Johnston Jazz Trio perform holiday favorites with a singalong. Ernst Community Cultural Center, Northern Virginia Community College, 8333 Little River Tpk., Annandale. 703-569-0973. $10, $7 seniors and teens, children free.


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