San Diego Opera Announces Listening Tour Series
Tour will see San Diego Opera’s General Director, David Bennett, engaging the community to explore how the Company can best
serve San Diegans
San
Diego, CA – San Diego Opera is proud to announce a listening tour
series that will bring the Company’s General Director, David Bennett,
out into the community to explore
how the Company can best serve its citizens as it looks towards its
next 50 years. These interactive conversations will take place in four
different regions of San Diego County – Central (at the Natural History
Museum in Balboa Park), North County (at the
Museum of Making Music), La Jolla (at The Scripps Institute Research
Center) and South Bay (at the Chula Vista Masonic Temple). Using
smartphone technology, these multi-media conversations will allow
participants to respond to questions in real time and drive
the conversation about the future of San Diego Opera.
“What
is opera? What do you like about opera? What might you want to see
different? Is opera too long? Too expensive? If you were General
Director of San Diego Opera,
what would you do to ensure the Company was thriving fifty year from
now? These are just some of the questions I will engage the community in
during this listening tour,” shares David Bennett. “What made San Diego
so attractive to me is that the community
had taken an active role in the opera’s future, having saved it in
2014. The diversity of San Diego is what makes this city so wonderful,
and it is my goal to make San Diego Opera an organization that serves
the community. To do this, we are going to do something
the Company has never done before: listen to you.”
The listening tours are free and open to the public but registration is required and can be made at:
http://www.sdopera.org/engage/listen. Refreshments and wine will
be served. Participants can also win opera tickets and other prizes.
Participants should attend the listening tour with a fully charged
smartphone, tablet, or laptop capable of internet
access through a cellular network to interact with the questions and
real time polls that will be part of the program. In order to better
evaluate aggregated responses, participants will be sent a short,
confidential questionnaire from our market research
partner Q2 Insights to be completed before attending the event.
Dates and locations for the San Diego Opera Listening Tour are:
Central: Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 6 PM – The Nat (in the Charmaine and Maurice Kaplan
Theater). 1788 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101.
La Jolla: Thursday, April 28 at 6 PM – The Auditorium at The Scripps Research Institute.
10620 John J Hopkins Dr., San Diego, CA 92121.
North County: Thursday, May 19 at 6 PM - The Museum of Making Music. 5790 Armada Dr,
Carlsbad, CA 92008
South Bay: Thursday, June 16, at 6 PM – The Chula Vista Masonic Lodge. 732 3rd Ave,
Chula Vista, CA 91910
The San Diego Opera Listening Tour is made possible with support from Q2 Insights. For more information visit us online at:
http://www.sdopera.org/engage/listen.
The 2015-2016 International Season
René Barbera in Recital
September 19, 2015
Patricia Racette “Diva on Detour”
November 14, 2015
Tosca Giacomo Puccini
February 13, 16, 19 and 21 (mat), 2016
Ferruccio Furlanetto in Concert
March 5, 2016
Madama Butterfly Giacomo Puccini April
16, 19, 22 and 24 (mat), 2016
Great Scott Jake Heggie
May 7, 10, 15 and 15 (mat), 2016
