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Michigan Opera Theatre presents The Pearl
Fishers, with a seductive opera score by composer
Georges Bizet ( Carmen) sung in French with
English surtitles, June 5-13, at the Detroit Opera
House. A deadly triangle of forbidden love set in
ancient Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the production —
after an absence from the MOT schedule of 24
years -- features set and costume design by Zandra
Rhodes and the MOT debut of baritone Nathan
Gunn. Performance times: 8 p.m. Saturday, June 5;
2 p.m. Sunday, June 6; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June
9; 8 p.m. Friday, June 11; 8 p.m. Saturday, June 12;
2 p.m. Sunday, June 13. $26-$113. (313) 237-
7464.
In Hungarian composer Bela Bartok's Concerto for
Orchestra, almost every musician in the orchestra
appears as a soloist. Neeme Jarvi leads the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra in this work, as well as
Haydn's Symphony No. 96 ("The Miracle") and
Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 2, with guest
violinist Leonidas Kavakos, 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 11-12, at
Detroit's Max M.Fisher Music Center. $15-$105.
Following the evening performances, in a program
titled Up Front, Center Stage, DSO players will
discuss the joys and challenges of orchestra perform-
ance; free. (248) 576-5111.
POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK
DTE Energy Music Theatre hosts country star
Clay Walker, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 5, $18.50-
$30; classic rockers Grand Funk Railroad, 7:30
p.m. Sunday, June 6, $10-$29; Rush, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 8, $35.50-$72.50; "Disco Mania
Tour," with headliners KC and the Sunshine Band
and Village People, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10,
$18.50-$35.50; and "Rock Never Stops," with
Vince Neill, Ratt and Slaughter, 7:30 p.m. Friday,
June 11, $18.50-$32.50. (248) 645-6666.
In the British brass band tradition, Motor City
Brass performs The Story of Music: From
Caveman to Current Man, a lighthearted approach
to music in its evolution from man's early days to
present day, 3 p.m. Sunday, June 6, at the Costick
Center, 28600 W. 11 Mile Road, just east of
Middlebelt, in Farmington Hills. $8-$10/tickets
.available at the door. (248) 473-1857.
British pop songstress Dido performs 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 6, at Detroit's Fox Theatre. $30-$50.
(248) 433-1515.
Classic rockers the Moody Blues take the stage at
Freedom Hill in Sterling Heights 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
June 6. $25-$46.40. (248) 645-6666.
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts the Global Jazz Trio,
featuring sax player Mark Hershberger, percussion-
ist Muruga Booker and bass guitarist Richard
Smith, 8 p.m. Thursday, June 10, $12.50; and pop
singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield, 8 p.m. Friday,
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June 11, $15. (734) 761-1451.
Pop superstars Aaron Neville and Linda
Ronstadt perform a benefit concert with
a 40-piece orchestra as part of Music
Hall's third annual Cars & Stars gala,
7 p.m. Friday, June 11, at Music Hall
Center for the Performing Arts.
$45-$125. (248) 645-6666.
FESTIVALS
A Taste of Ann Arbor and the Rest of
the World offers bite-size culinary delights (50 cents
per food taste), as well as entertainment and family
activities (free), 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, June 6, in
downtown Ann Arbor. (734) 668-7112.
Held until now in mid-September, the Detroit
Festival of the Arts, produced by the University
Cultural Center and Wayne State University and
featuring visual and performing artists from around
the world — with more than 100 performances on
10 stages — moves to .a new time period, June 11-
13, in Midtown — Detroit's Cultural District and
Wayne State University Campus. Hours are 4-11
p.m. Friday, 12-11 p.m. Saturday and 12-9 p.m.
Sunday. Performers include rock and soul artist
Solomon Burke, South African jazz trumpet legend
Hugh Masekela and Australian installation per-
formance artists Strange Fruit. For a complete
schedule of performers and events, including a chil-
dren's fair with more than 50 interactive activities
and performances centered around the theme of
"eco-arts," go to wvvw.detroitfestival.com or call
(313) 577-5088.
Israeli singing star David Broza head-
lines this year's Greater Chicago Jewish
Folk Arts Festival, featuring local and
national Jewish talent on three stages, a
juried art fair, activities for children, a
book fair and a strictly kosher food court,
11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, June 13, at the
St. Paul Forest Preserve, on Dempster
and Lehigh, a mile and a half west of
Edens Expressway in Morton Grove, Ill.
For more information, go to www.jevv-
ishfestival.org or call (847) 933-3000.
ON THE STAGE
The Treetown Performance . Festival presents the
Dexter Center for the Performing Arts in Robert
Patrick's Kennedy's Children, a comic elegy of pass-
ing youth and opportunity set in 1974 in which five
characters are brought together in a New York bar
by the loss of President Kennedy, 8 p.m. Thursdays-
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, June 10 - 21, at
Performance Network Theatre in Ann Arbor. $17-
$20/pay what you can Thursdays. (734) 663-0681.
BlackBag Productions presents Barton Bund's
Margaritaville, a comedy about same-sex marriage,
8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, June 10-26, at the
Blackbird Theatre, 1600 Pauline Blvd., in Ann
Arbor. The play's protagonist is a Jewish woman
from a wealthy family who returns home to Florida
to get married and shake things up in her conserva-
tive family. $17/$5 on Thursdays. (734) 332-3848.
Australian installation performance artists Strange Fruit take part in this year's Detroit Festival of the Arts,
running June 11-13 in Midtown.
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