Giacomo Puccini's
LA BOHEME
July 20, 2011
and
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
August 3, 2011
Both performances
7:30 p.m.
at
THE NAUMBERG BANDSHELL
CENTRAL PARK
72nd Street at mid-park
ADMISSION IS FREE
With the presentation of Verdi's Requiem on March 29, 2004 at Carnegie Hall, New York Grand Opera Artistic Director Vincent La Selva launched "Honoring Verdi", a decade long annual series of Verdi operas and related opera and orchestral programs leading to 2013 -- the 200th anniversary of Verdi's birth. In this seventh year of the series, Maestro La Selva conducted Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco on October 21, 2010 before a packed house at the Church of St. Paul and Saint Andrew in Manhattan.