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The San Diego Civic Theatre is a performing arts venue in downtown San Diego, California. It opened in 1965. [ 1 ] It is the performing home of the San Diego Opera and hosts other entertainment events such as concerts and musicals.
San Diego Opera Guild was founded in 1950 to present San Francisco Opera productions in the San Diego community. 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.
The mixed-use, high-rise building includes a 34-story office building with 530,000 square feet of rentable space, the 264-room Marriott Vacation Club Pulse San Diego, a five-level parking structure and the 2,255-seat Jacobs Music Center. In addition, the penthouse floor houses the exclusive University Club, and the tower has a helipad on the roof.
The Civic Light Opera company was founded in 1945. [2] It was one of the oldest musical theatre companies in the United States. [3] The amphitheater sits almost directly under the landing path for San Diego International Airport. During musical performances the conductor had a set of lights that indicated the noise level from passing planes.
Ian David Campbell (21 December 1945 () (age 79)) is an Australian-born opera singer, stage director, administrator, radio broadcaster and writer.He was the general director and artistic director of San Diego Opera from 1983 until 2014.
He has directed productions at numerous opera houses in North and South America, including The Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, San Diego Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera de Montreal, Boston Lyric Opera, Dallas, Buenos Aires, Wolf Trap, New Orleans, Glimmerglass Opera, as well as at prestigious ...
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]
Jacobs Music Center is a performing arts theater in San Diego, California. It opened in 1929 as Fox Theatre, a Gothic Revival–style luxury theater. It was conferred to the San Diego Symphony in 1984. The center is also the location of various youth orchestra concerts, including the San Diego Youth Symphony's, and a conservatory.