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, including the theatre and dance department's The Zona Rosa Project, a free workshop production, continuing through this weekend.

Symphony to accompany Rising Stars of Opera

The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis Symphony Orchestra accompanies Adler Fellows and Eugene Brancoveanu, baritone, in Rising Stars of Opera at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The free program is set for 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, in Jackson Hall.

The program:

• Verdi — Overture to I vespri siciliani (1838)
• Rossini — "Largo al factotum" from Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816)
• Mahler — "Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht" from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Song of a Wayfarer) (1884–85)
• Britten — "Within this frail crucible of light" from Act II of The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37
• Mozart — "Hai già vinta la causa" and "Vedrò mentri'io sospiro" from Act III of Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (1786)

Causeway Youth Band Festival

Concert bands from °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis and California State University, Sacramento, join youths from around the region in the Causeway Youth Band Festival, Sunday, Oct. 23, in the Mondavi Center’s Jackson Hall.

Pete Nowlen and Robert Halseth are the festival directors, in addition to leading their own bands from °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis and Sacramento State, respectively, in the closing concert.

The program for the 7 p.m. concert also includes two festival bands: one of seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders, and the other for 10th- 11th- and 12th-graders.

Tickets are available , or by visiting or calling the Mondavi Center box office, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787. Box office hours: noon-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and one hour before ticketed events.