SAN DIEGO, Calif. – San Diego Opera has announced that it will take part in San Diego’s first annual Make Music Day on Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 1 p.m. at the Plaza de Panama in Balboa Park (located in front of the San Diego Museum of Art). Make Music Day is a free celebration of music held annually on June 21st in more than 100 countries.
Members of San Diego Opera’s Opera Exposed Ensemble will be presenting arias and duets from popular opera that will be instantly recognizable to audience members, whether they are long time opera fan or experiencing live opera for the first time. Opera Exposed, which debuted last season, is comprised of students from the Company’s University Partnership Program which includes vocal arts students from SDSU, Point Loma Nazarene University and USD. All of the participants have auditioned into the program and represent San Diego Opera in recitals throughout the communities and neighborhoods of San Diego County. In return, the students receive master classes with principal artists from San Diego Opera mainstage productions, meetings with senior staff, internships to bolster their resumés, in-and-out privileges for staging rehearsals and complimentary tickets to performances. This partnership offers young singers ample opportunities to hone their performance skills, while at the same time giving them a better idea of the processes of producing opera on a professional level.
“San Diego Opera is delighted to be a part of this arts initiative, Make Music Day San Diego,” shares Dr. Nic Reveles, San Diego Opera’s Director of Education and Community Outreach. “There is nothing better than live performance of diverse styles of music in the grandest performance space in town, Balboa Park!”
Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, Make Music Day is a free celebration of music held annually on June 21st in more than 100 countries. Completely different from a typical music festival, Make Music Day is completely free and open to the public, and it is open to every kind of musician – young and old, amateur and professional, and of every musical persuasion.
Make Music Day San Diego is partnering on programming with a growing list of local cultural organizations and institutions including San Diego Opera, The Centro Cultural de la Raza, House of Pacific Relations, Japanese Friendship Garden, Mingei International Museum, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego Art Institute, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Man, Spreckels Organ Society, The Old Globe, and The World Beat Center.
For more information, and a complete schedule of event, visit http://www.makemusicsd.org/
