8 pm • Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space $20; Member, Student, Senior; Child $12

Special Guest Conductor Matthew Oberstein returns after his sold-out performance with NASO last season. This year's program - A Night at the Opera Gala - features favorite selections from La Boheme, Carmen, Turandot, Rigoletto, and more! A roster of operatic soloists performing with full orchestra.

8 pm • Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space $47; Student $15

Rimbaud and Verlaine: two self-destructive poetic geniuses, their dangerous love affair, and the magic of Debussy's music. Arthur Rimbaud, the enfant terrible of French poetry, was an outrageously precocious and genial adolescent when he met his mentor, Paul Verlaine. The two embarked on a destructive love affair of dangerous intensity, which transformed their lives forever.

8 pm • BAR thalia

Get your weekend started right with some hilarious stand-up comedy and $6 martinis; featuring Angry Bob, as seen on HBO's hit "Bored to Death" and his special guest Christian Finnegan from Are We There Yet and Chappelle's Show.