The Port of Los Angeles High School invites the public to attend their Saturday, November 8th, 2008 Fall Fundraiser - OPERA at the GRAND.
The 8:00 PM performance will be held at the historic Warner Grand Theatre, located in the heart of downtown San Pedro. The evening's performance will feature an evening of great opera arias and ensemble pieces, while highlighting the vocal artistry of the San Diego Opera Ensemble, accompanied by the Warner Grand's own Orchestra-in-Residence, the Golden State Pops Orchestra.
Very Special Persons are all invited to support POLAHS students at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (a short walk from the Warner Grand Theatre) for a 5:30 PM dinner party. VIP Dinner Party Tickets are $150 each and include a $25 general admission ticket to OPERA at the GRAND. For tickets and information, please contact the Port of Los Angeles High School — 310 832 9201.
An OPERA at the GRAND Pre Fix $50 per person dinners are also available at Juliette's Restaurant, located in the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The gourmet meal includes: salad, a choice of two entrees, dessert, free parking and a ticket to OPERA at the GRAND.
Please call the restaurant for Pre Fix Dinner reservations — 310 519 8200.
Valet and Self Parking available at the Crowne Plaza Hotel - located within convenient walking distance to the Warner Grand Theatre.
Tickets and more information, please visit www.POLAHS.net or stop by Williams Book Store, 443 West 6th Street, 310 832 3631, the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce, 390 West 7th Street, 310 832 7272 or the Port of Los Angeles High School, 250 West 5th Street, 310 832 9201.
All proceeds benefit the Port of Los Angeles High School.
ABOUT the Golden State Pops Orchestra: (GSPO) was formed in January of 2002 and is currently the only year-round pops orchestra in the Los Angeles area. The GSPO focuses on exciting and innovative concerts that are designed to entertain both the seasoned enthusiast as well as the casual music lover. The orchestra's repertoire includes film and television scores, legendary Broadway hits, and popular music of all kinds. Along with performing more modern genres, GSPO is the Orchestra-in-Residence at the historic Warner Grand Theatre and frequently programs influential pieces of the standard orchestral repertoire.
GSPO dedicates their November 8th OPERA at the GRAND performance to the memory of Muriel Gluck — we will miss her gracious support and dedication to the arts.
The Golden State Pops Orchestra is comprised of professional freelance musicians from around the Los Angeles area, many of whom are active in the recording industry. The GSPO's musicians have played on the soundtracks to films such as King Kong, Pirates of the Caribbean, Finding Nemo and Fat Albert, along with television shows including The Simpsons, Family Guy and King of the Hill.
For more information about GSPO, please visit the web site — www.gspo.com.
ABOUT the San Diego Opera Ensemble: San Diego Opera, ranked by OPERA AMERICA as one of the top 10 opera companies in the United States, is a widely respected member of the international opera community. The San Diego Opera was recently honored as one of 13 "Cornerstone Arts Organizations" by the prestigious James Irvine Foundation. In addition, San Diego Opera is the only San Diego arts organization to receive an almost perfect ranking from both the California Arts Council and the City of San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture.
San Diego Opera was founded in 1950 to present San Francisco Opera productions in the San Diego community, and became a producing company in its own right in 1965 with its first staging of La Bohème in the new Civic Theatre. Beginning in 1976, General Director Tito Capobianco brought the Company international renown with an annual Verdi Festival and expanded the season to six productions, featuring renowned superstars such as Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly Sills.
Ian Campbell, Assistant Artistic Administrator at the Metropolitan Opera, succeeded Capobianco in 1983. Mr. Campbell immediately brought the Company to fiscal stability and has achieved a balanced budget every year since. While maintaining financial stability and increasing the audience base, Campbell expanded the season, instituted a concert program to bring major international stars to San Diego and launched the North American Voices Project. Campbell also expanded San Diego Opera's educational outreach into the largest and most diverse offering of any American opera company.
San Diego Opera's acclaimed productions regularly bring internationally renowned artists to perform in San Diego throughout our five month season.
The award winning Operation: Opera program is one of the most extensive and diverse opera education and outreach programs in North America, bringing music and arts to 100,000 schoolchildren in San Diego County and Northern Mexico. The North American Voices Project, instituted in 1993, became a model for opera companies throughout the United States, adding contemporary American operas to complement the traditional repertoire each season.
For more information about the San Diego Opera Ensembles' outreach and education programs, please visit: www.sdopera.com.
The Port of Los Angeles High School physical location is:
250 West 5th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
www.polahs.net or call 310 832 9201
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