Classical music: The concerts you should see in Bordeaux this weekend

Manon Lamaison plays the charmed Barbarina, while Paco Garcia is the deceitful Don Basilio from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro".

Classical music: The concerts you should see in Bordeaux this weekend

Manon Lamaison plays the charmed Barbarina, while Paco Garcia is the deceitful Don Basilio from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". Jean-Marc Fontana will accompany them on the piano. They will perform duets from "Don Giovanni", Cosi fan tutte, and "The Magic Flute" as well as Schubert, Faure, and Debussy.

Friday, June 4, at 12:30 p.m. 10 euros (1 Euro for children under 18).

Manuel Hernandez-Silva, a Spanish conductor, will lead the Suite from the ballet "Estancia", by Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), which evokes life in the pampas. Erich Kleiber also composed the Suite using music by Silvestre Revueltas to accompany the Mexican film "Redes", about the lives of Alvarado's fishermen (1935). Pacho Flores will be his soloist in the Venezuelan Simon-Bolivar Orchestra, which he conducted as principal guest conductor. He will also perform two concertos for trumpet performed by the Cuban Paquito, who was born in 1948, or the Puerto Rican Roberto Sierra.

Friday, 8 p.m. Auditorium. Prices from 8 to 50 Euros

ONBA's Alex Diep, Cyprien Semayne and Eric Abeijon will perform the Allegro from Schubert’s Unfinished Trio (D 471). They will be joined by Coline Allie for fun in Mozart's A Major Flute Quartet. It will be as funny as the "Musical Joke", played last month by their colleagues. The performance will conclude with Dvorak’s flute version of "American Quartet".

Sunday, June 5, 11 a.m. 10 euros (one euro for children younger than 18). For more information, call 05 56 0085 95 or opera-bordeaux.com

The Akitania String Quartet will honor Jean Barriere (1707-1747), cellist Franz Beck (1723-1809), conductor at the Grand-Theatre Jean Roger-Ducasse (1873-1954), classmate to Ravel in class of composition by Faure (1870-1939), organist Ermend-Bonnal (1880-1944), Gustave Samazeuilh (1877-1967), friend and colleague of Richard Strauss... and Alexandre Scire, who organizes these "Musical Caudalies".

Concerts with tasting cour Mably on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 3 and 4, at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 5, at 3 p.m. 12 Euros 06 18 51 45 78.