The Ring, performed by the Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Opera, will be the first ever staged in the Los Angeles area (Los Angeles Opera's Ring, which was previously scheduled for fall 2006, has been moved back to 2009). Gergiev will also bring the Mariinsky Theatre's other resident companies: the Kirov Ballet, which will perform Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake, and the Kirov Orchestra.

The new hall will open with two concerts by the Pacific Symphony, led by music director Carl St. Clair, on September 15 and 16, 2006. The programs will include a new song cycle by Bolcom, based on poems by Federico Garc‹a Lorca, sung by tenor Plšcido Domingo; and Glass's The Passion of Ramakrishna, a work for orchestra and voices.