SAN DIEGO – San Diego Opera have announced a group of dedicated donors will match up to $500,000 in donations from the community to create a new vision for San Diego Opera. This $1 million campaign will keep San Diego Opera strong, and ensure the company will continue to present world-class opera for many more…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Opera today announced the continuation of Opera on the Concourse, a series of free lunchtime concerts held for the public on the San Diego Civic Concourse with the stars of San Diego Opera’s season. Discontinued in 2007, the program returned last season, and attracted over 300 spectators per performance in…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Opera has announced that it is once again partnering with KPBS Radio to present encore broadcasts of San Diego Opera’s three mainstage operas –Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and the West Coast premiere of Great Scott, a new opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Terrence McNally. KPBS will also air a…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Opera welcomes back soprano Patricia Racette for her wildly-acclaimed “Diva on Detour” program which features the renowned singer performing cabaret and jazz standards by Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, and Edith Piaf, among others, Saturday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Balboa Theatre. Racette is well known to…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Opera has announced that tenor René Barbera, who made his San Diego Opera debut this past April in the Company’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Concerts, will be returning for a recital Saturday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Balboa Theatre as part of the Company’s 2015-2016 season. This recital marks…
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…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – San Diego Opera announced today that tenor René Barbera, who made his San Diego Opera debut this past April in the Company’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Concerts, will be returning for a recital on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 7 PM at the Balboa Theatre as part of the Company’s 2015-2016 season….
San Diego Opera celebrates its 50th anniversary with two celebration concerts Saturday, April 18 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 19 at 2 p.m. at The Jacobs Music Center at Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St. in San Diego, presented by U.S. Bank. Tickets start at $45. A selection of opera’s greatest hits featuring arias,…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – San Diego Opera has announced the final Opera on the Concourse of the 2014-2015 season will be Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 12 p.m. Opera on the Concourse is a free lunchtime concert held for the public on the San Diego Civic Concourse with the stars of San Diego Opera’s season….
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Opera has announced the appointment of David Bennett as the company’s new general director. Bennett is the former executive director of Gotham Chamber Opera, a New York City based opera company which has made its mark in the international arts community by presenting fully staged productions, from the Baroque era…
