Best bets this weekend

This list is massive!

Don't miss: The CSO concert this weekend, season finale. (See below).

Ruth Ann in Dayton: Metropolitan Opera star Ruth Ann Swenson makes her Dayton debut in a rare recital of art songs and arias from some of her signature opera roles, 8 p.m. today and 3 p.m. Sunday, at the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, Dayton. The diva has just starred as Cleopatra in Handel's "Giulio Cesare" at the Met, and will open Cincinnati Opera’s season next month as Marguerite in "Faust." The noted pianist Warren Jones, "accompanist to the stars," is her partner in music by Rossini, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini, Handel, Gounod and more. Tickets from $15; 937-228-3630, www.ticketcenterstage.com and www.daytonopera.com.

Anonymous 4 in Lebanon: "Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc," Anonymous 4; the Lebanon Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, David Donovan, conductor, 8 p.m. SaturdayUrbancrest Baptist Church, 2634 Drake Rd., Lebanon
Tickets: $20; $25 at the door. Students $10; $15 at the door. 513-228-0346, www.musicinlebanon.com.
Today: Round Table with composer Richard Einhorn and Paul Clark, Enquirer A&E editor, 7:30 p.m. Copperfield’s Coffee Café, 3 South Broadway, Lebanon. ($20)

Cincinnati Camerata on Sunday: The Camerata has a concert and celebration that includes Sharon Farber's "The Third Mother," winner of the 2007 compostition contest. Farber, originally from Israel, has dedicated her piece to Judea and Ruth Pearl, whose son Daniel was the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan in 2002. The Hebrew text is by Nathan Alterman. Concert, dancing and wine tasting, all for just $12 suggested donation! 4 p.m., Oak Ridge Lodge, Mount Airy Forest. Info: 859-491-2362.

MUSE Cincinnati Women's Choir presents Wake Up!, a concert for the Earth, led by artistic director Catherine Roma, 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday, New Thought Unity Center, 1401 East McMillan Street. The concert will feature arrangements by Jennifer Stasack, Joan Szymko and Ysaye Maria Barnwell, among others. Come out and celebrate music by women, sung by women! The event also has an earth fair starting at 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $20 in advance; slideing sclae... $25 at the door. www.musechoir.org.

Xavier Piano Series: Norman Krieger performs music by Alban Berg, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Chopin, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Gallagher Student Center Theatre, XU. Tickets: 513-745-3161.

The Linton Series: It's Opus One, with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, violinist Ida Kavafian, violist Steven Tenenbom, and cellist Peter Wiley, 4 p.m. Sunday First Unitarian Church, Avondale, and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Congregation Ohav Shalom, Montgomery. They'll play Beethoven's Quartet in E-flat, Schumann's Quartet in E-flat and more. Tickets: 513-381-6868, www.lintonmusic.org.