ATLANTA - Season tickets are now on sale for the Atlanta Opera's 2010-11 season, its fourth in the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, beginning Oct. 2 to April 17, 2011.

"We have assembled an enticing season of three operas we know will be attractive to Atlanta's increasingly diverse opera audience," said Zurich General Director Dennis Hanthorn. "The casts, directors, and conductors will all live up to the high artistic standards our audience has come to expect from The Atlanta Opera."

The season opens on Oct. 2 with Giacomo Puccini's "La boh me," with addtional performances on Oct. 5, 8 and 10. The opera tells the tale of six penniless artists and their realities of life. Gregory Vajda, who led the Atlanta Opera Orchestra in the 2008 production of Cinderella, returns to conduct. The opera will be sung in Italian with English supertitles projected above the stage.

The second opera in the season is George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" with performances on Feb. 26 and March 1, 4 and 6, 2011. The opera depicts the people of Catfish Row struggling with hard work and tough times and yearning for a better life and love. Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart will make his Atlanta Opera debut conducting The Atlanta Opera Orchestra, Chorus and cast.

The season's closing performance will be Mozart's "Cos fan tutte" on April 9, 12, 15 and 17, 2011, which tells the story of two officers who boast of their girlfriends' faithfulness, only to have a clever friend put it to the test. Making their Atlanta Opera debuts, Argentine Jose Maria Condemi will stage direct and Metropolitan Opera conductor Kazem Abdullah will lead The Atlanta Opera Orchestra. The opera will be sung in Italian with English supertitles projected above the stage.

Single tickets will go on sale in September and will start at $25 plus tax. Season tickets for a full 3-opera subscription range from $75 to $459 plus handling. Tickets for the remaining two performances in its 2009-10 season - "Aida" on Feb. 27, March 2, 5 and 7 and "The Magic Flute" on April 24, 27, 30 and May 2 - are also on sale.

For more information and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.atlantaopera.org or call (404) 881-8885 or 1 (800) 35-OPERA (Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.).