"It's thrilling for me, and it's a send-off for when I appear at the Vienna Volksoper this winter," says Kunzel. He'll make his Vienna, Austria, debut in February, conducting Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music - its first-ever production in Vienna.

Kunzel's Music Hall program, "An Evening in Old Vienna," will include scenes from The Sound of Music - the story of Maria, who leaves a convent to become governess for a widowed naval officer - as well as favorites from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow.

Seven Von Trapp children in Tyrolean costumes will sing "The Lonely Goatherd" and "So Long, Farewell." As the baron, Daniel Narducci will strum his own guitar to "Edelweiss."

Selections will include "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," "The Sound of Music" and "all the familiar songs that everybody knows," Kunzel says.

"I really want to transport everybody to a Viennese ball," Kunzel says.

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. in Music Hall, followed by a gala ball. Concert tickets: $17-$70.25. The ball: $150; $200 patrons. (513) 381-3300 or www.cincinnatisymphony.org.

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