ESCONDIDO–After four years, opera returns to the California Center for the Arts, Escondido.
At 4 p.m. on May 31, locals are invited to spend an evening reveling in the greatest moments from Grand Opera, as well as beloved melodies of Light Opera. Dr. Nicolas Reveles, the San Diego Opera’s Geisel Director of Education and Outreach, will host the program, which will feature a cast of five international soloists, a full orchestra and the Center Chorale conducted by Dr. Joe Stanford.
Appropriately titled Opera’s Greatest Moments, the concert will showcase highlights from the opera genre — opera’s “greatest hits,” so to speak. This comeback performance is thanks to the generosity of longtime center donor and supporter, Jean Will, wife of center board member Bob Will.
Featured on the program are five opera stars: Priti Gandhi, soprano; Robin Buck, baritone; Kristina Driskill, mezzo soprano; Megan Weston, soprano; and Jorge López-Yáñez, tenor. The evening will feature the music of Puccini, Mozart, Bernstein, Lehar, Delibes, Bizet, J. Strauss, Verdi and Gilbert and Sullivan.
Opera’s Greatest Moments will include selections from “La Bohème,” “Don Giovanni,” “Candide,” “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Madama Butterfly,” and more.
Tickets are on sale now and available for $17-$29 for center members and $20-$34 for non-members.
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