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Tweeter Center 2004

It’s the season for summer and 2004-2005 schedule announcements. Here’s what the Tweeter Center in Mansfield has on tap for this summer.

May 20 at 7:30 p.m.: the Who ($35, $65, $95, $125)

May 22 at noon: Kiss Concert 2004 featuring Jessica Simpson, Avril Lavigne, and Cyndi Lauper ($65, $75, $110, $200)

May 28 at 8 p.m.: Fleetwood Mac ($38.50, $48.50, $85, $125)

May 30 at noon: WBCN River Rave 2004 featuring the Offspring, P.O.D., and the Darkness ($35, $65)

June 8 at 7 p.m.: Blink 182 and No Doubt ($39.50, $49.50)

June 13 at 5 p.m.: WJMN Summer Jam 2004 featuring Kanye West, Twista, and Beenie Man ($20, $35.50, $55.50, $75.50)

June 23 at 7:30 p.m.: Britney Spears with special guest Eamon ($36, $56, $76)

June 24 at 7 p.m.: Aerosmith with special guests Cheap Trick ($35, $55, $75)

June 26 at 7:30 p.m.: the Country 99.5 Country Music Show with Tim McGraw and special guests Big & Rich and the Warren Brothers ($27.75, $59.75)

June 28 and 29 at 7 p.m.: Sting and Annie Lennox ($52.50, $77.50, $127.50)

June 30 at 7:30 p.m.: Chicago and Earth Wind & Fire ($25.25, $45.25, $65.25, $75.25)

July 3 and 4 at 7 p.m.: Eric Clapton with special guests Robert Randolph and the Family Band ($45, $75, $95)

July 6 and 7 at 7 p.m.: Dave Matthews Band with special guests Nappy Roots ($39.50, $57)

July 12 at 9 a.m.: OzzFest 2004 with Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Slayer and more ($39.50, $55.50, $75.50)

July 13 at 6:30 p.m.: 3 Doors Down and Nickelback ($25, $35, $48.50, $60)

July 16 at 7 p.m.: Kiss with Poison ($25, $35, $50, $75)

July 20 at 8 p.m.: Rod Stewart ($29.75, $55.25, $95.25)

July 23 at 7 p.m.: 311 with special guests the Roots and Medeski Martin & Wood ($35)

July 27 at 8 p.m.: Josh Groban ($25, $35, $55, $75)

July 29 at 6 p.m.: Projekt Revolution Tour with Linkin Park, Korn, Snoop Dogg, and special guests the Used and Less Than Jake ($38.50, $53)

July 30 and 31 at 6 p.m.: the Dead with special guest Warren Haynes ($50)

August 9 at 7 p.m.: Barenaked Ladies and Alanis Morissette ($25, $35, $40, $50)

August 10 and 11 at 7 p.m.: Phish ($42.50; May 22 at 10 a.m.)

August 12 at 7:30 p.m.: Rush ($30.50, $45.50, $55.50, $75.50)

August 14 and 15: Lollapalooza 2004 (more information TBA)

August 20 at 7 p.m.: John Mayer with special guests Maroon 5 and DJ Logic ($33, $41, $49)

August 21 at 7 p.m.: Allman Brothers Band with special guests Los Lonely Boys ($29.50, $45.00)

August 27 at 7:30 p.m.: Kenny Chesney ($27.75, $59.75; July 10 at 10 a.m.)

August 31 at 7:30 p.m.: Norah Jones ($29.50, $39.50, $58; May 21 at 10 a.m.)

Tickets, unless otherwise specified, are available now from Ticketmaster at (617) 931-2000 or (617) 228-6000, or visit www.teapartyconcerts.com.

— Jeffrey Gantz

Opera Boston 2004-2005

Opera Boston, which you’ll remember used to be the Boston Academy of Music, has announced its three productions for next season, and they’re the usual OB blend of the intriguing and the underperformed. The first is Jacques Offenbach’s "homage to the intoxicating excitement of Paris," La vie parisienne, which was commissioned for the Universal Exposition of 1867. OB describes the work as "a tribute to the decadent social life of the bourgeoisie in the café concerts, who emulated the court of the Second Empire, under the regime of Napoleon III." It will be performed in English (wouldn’t the original French have been more decadent?) with surtitles, and OB music director Gil Rose will conduct; dates are October 15 and 17.

Next up is a collaboration with Boston Baroque in an opera written exactly 100 years earlier, Christoph Gluck’s Alceste, which is rooted in Euripides’s drama about the woman who goes down to Hades in the place of her husband, whereupon Herakles follows her and brings her back. This one will be presented in the original French with English surtitles, with Boston Baroque director Martin Pearlman leading the BB period orchestra and chorus. Dates are January 28 and 30.

The season will conclude with Robert Ward’s The Crucible, which is based on the Arthur Miller play about witchcraft in colonial Salem; it premiered in New York in 1961 but hasn’t been seen in Boston since 1971. That’ll be April 8 and 10, with Gil Rose back on the podium.

Casting and production information for these works will be announced later in the spring. All performances will take place at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street in the Theater District. For a subscription brochure, call Opera Boston at (617) 451-3388. Single tickets will be made available after Labor Day; call (800) 233-3123.

— Jeffrey Gantz