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San Diego Opera Association was incorporated in 1965 as a producing company and presented its first staging of La bohème at the San Diego Civic Theatre. It is a member of the professional association OPERA America , which ranked it among the top ten opera companies in the United States.
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He was the general director and artistic director of San Diego Opera from 1983 until 2014. In the 1960s and 1970s he sang opera as a tenor, then moved into opera management. In March 2014 he told the San Diego Opera's board of directors that the company should shut down, saying its finances made continued operation no longer viable.
In March 2015 the San Diego Opera announced his hiring as general director, replacing Ian Campbell, who left in May 2014 after unsuccessfully proposing a controversial shutdown of the opera company. [9] Bennett is the fourth general director in the company's 50-year history. [8]
Opera News, an 87-year-old publication focused on the Metropolitan Opera and spotlighting the art form in the U.S., will print its final issue in November and be incorporated into Britain-based ...
Thelma Camacho Ivie is an American opera and rock and roll singer known for her membership in the groups the New Christy Minstrels and the First Edition. As a teenager in San Diego, California, Camacho was Miss Teen San Diego and sang in Starlight Theater productions. [1] She sang lead with the San Diego Civic Light Opera by the age of 14
Lyric Opera San Diego was a San Diego–based theatre company specializing in comic opera, operetta, and musical theatre. The company was founded in 1979, primarily for the purpose of performing Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas. At the time it was known as the San Diego Gilbert and Sullivan Company.
Carlo Bergonzi and Paul Plishka, along with Cristina Deutekom appeared in the San Diego Opera's short-lived (1979 to 1984) summer "Verdi Festival" in June 1979 and it is claimed that this was a West Coast premiere. [14] Over the years, New York audiences have seen the opera presented first by New York City Opera in 1982. [15]