SPOTLIGHT

Robert Wells will bring his unique style to the Orange Couty

Performing Arts Center on Wednesday with “Rhapsody in Rock.” Wells is a

popular rock star in Sweden. His band joined with a full symphony

orchestra in the late ‘80s for “Rhapsody in Rock,” a concert that

combined the singer’s love for classical music with his rock-and-roll

background.

In 1990, the combination of classical music and rock attracted the

attention of the Soviet Cultural Ministry. Wells took “Rhapsody in Rock”

to Leningrad and did two concerts with the Leningrad Conservatory

Symphony Orchestra at the Glinka Capella Auditorium, Russia’s oldest

concert hall.

This production of “Rhapsody in Rock” will include conductor Anders

Berglund and guests LaGaylia Frazier and Sofia Kallgren.

FYI

Where: Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive,

Costa Mesa

When: 8 p.m. Wednesday

Cost: $55 or $65

Contact: (714) 740-7878

Watching those dancing Irish darlings

DARLINGS OF DANCE

Muldoon’s Dublin Pub will host its fifth annual Darlings of Dance

competition today in its garden courtyard. Ranging in age from 7 to 12,

the female competitors will perform in traditional Irish step-dancing

apparel. They are all members of the Celtic Gold Irish Dance Academy. The

dancers will participate in a group performance and then will perform

individual interpretive solo performances against one another.

FYI

Where: Muldoon’s Dublin Pub, 202 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach

When: 2 to 3:30 p.m. today

Cost: Free

Contact: (949) 640-4110

PLANNING AHEAD

BAROQUE FESTIVAL

The 22nd annual Baroque Music Festival will present take place St.

Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Corona del Mar.

Begins Sunday, June 23

FOOD AND WINE FEST

The 10th annual South Coast Plaza Summer Food and Wine Festival will

take over the Crate & Barrel/Macy’s Home wing of South Coast Plaza, with

live music and delicacies sold for charity.

Thursday, June 27

Numerically Speaking

17: The number of cast members in the Newport Theatre Art Center’s

production of “Sweet Charity,” running through June 30.