The Hillcrest Wind Ensemble (HWE) will present A Night at the Opera Oct. 10, 7 p.m. at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4150 Front Street in San Diego. The ensemble is proud to be working with the San Diego Opera’s University Partners Program known as Opera Exposed, which features voice students from SDSU, USD and Point Loma Nazarene University.
These young vocalists will perform selections from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and “Così Fan Tutte”. The Ensemble will perform instrumental versions of Puccini’s La Bohème, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and many more. The evening will also feature the overture to an original modern opera composed by conductor John Winkelman with librettist Keith Schooler.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door and are available at sdartstix.com and The Windsmith, 3875 Granada Ave. in North Park.
The 45-piece Hillcrest Wind Ensemble is in its 29th year of performing and is a program of The LGBT Center acting as a musical ambassador to the community as a whole. hillcrestwindensemble.com v
