Fire up your romance on Valentine's day with an evening of great food and music.   Nothing stirs the heart like how the Italian masterpieces celebrate love with great music featuring arias and other vocal works.

Enjoy this wonderful evening in support of the Symphony.

The doors open at 6:00 for cocktails and mingling.  Dinner begins at 7:00 p.m.  The concert begins at 8:00 p.m.

Tickets are only sold as a dinner/concert package.

Click for a Menu You'll Love

  • Braised Beef Agrodolce ─ Sirloin beef tips cooked with rosemary, mushrooms, red wine and balsamic vinegar
  • Chicken Saltimbocca – Grilled skinless chicken breast with a sage and white wine pan sauce, garnished with crispy prosciutto
  • Cheese Tortellini in a sage and brown butter sauce
  • Roasted Zucchini and Yellow Squash with slow roasted white wine and garlic cherry tomatoes finished with mint
  • Tuscan Salad with red wine vinaigrette (served at table, rolls and  butter.  Coffee, tea or milk

CONDUCTOR

Alexander Mandl

Meet our Soloists

Soprano Kathy Pyeatt has graced opera, musical theater, and concert stages throughout the United States over her three decade career.  Favorites roles include much of the operatic repertoire, including Floria Tosca (Tosca), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Cosi Fan Tutte), Constanza (The Abduction from the Seraglio), Violetta (La Traviata) and Verdi's Requem.  Kathy hails from Menomonee Falls and is delighted to be returning home to perform with the MFSO where she was last heard as the soloist in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Jenkin’s The Armed Man.

Tenor Nathan Wesselowski, has been seen on stage with Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Cleveland Opera, The National Opera Company, Ash Lawn Highland Summer Festival, New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, In Tandem Theatre, First Stage, Fireside Theatre and many other regional theatres. He received his Master of Music in voice performance from The Cleveland Institute of Music and Bachelor of Music from Baker University.