Our 2014–2015 Internationals season celebrates the milestone of our 50th Anniversary, as well as a new beginning that is full of promise. Please join us and experience San Diego Opera for the first time or the thirty-first time.

NIXON IN CHINA

by John Adams
March 14, 17, 20, 22(m), 2015
San Diego Civic Theatre

An opera of fact and fiction about the historic goodwill meeting in Peking in 1972 between President Richard Nixon and China’s Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. Experience this whirlwind diplomatic trip which changed history.

Cast: Richard Nixon Franco Pomponi, Pat Nixon Maria Kanyova, Chou En-Lai Chen-Ye Yuan, Mao Tse-Tung Chad Shelton, Henry Kissinger Patrick Carfizzi, Madama Mao Tse-Tung Kathleen Kim, Conductor Joseph Mechavich, Director James Robinson.

50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERT

Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 7:00pm
Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 2:00pm
Jacobs Music Center – Copley Symphony Hall

Celebrate our 50th Anniversary with an amazing concert filled with favorite arias, duets, ensembles and choruses with the San Diego Symphony. Featuring Lise Lindstrom, Marianne Cornetti, Emily Magee, Stephen Powell, René Barbera, Reinhard Hagen, Scott Sikon and conducted by Karen Kamensek, come and enjoy a tribute to our 50–year history and celebrate our new beginning.

EL PASADO NUNCA SE TERMINA
The Past Is Never Finished

Saturday, April 25, 2015
at 2:00pm and 7:00pm

San Diego Civic Theatre
Music by José “Pepe” Martínez, Libretto by Leonard Foglia

The great Mariachi Vargas De Tecalitlán returns in our 50th Anniversary Season with an entirely new Mariachi opera from the same team which created Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, the sold-out hit in 2013. In 1910, Hailey’s Comet appeared in the sky over Mexico and many believed it foretold bloodshed and upheaval to come. Smoldering restlessness fueled by abject poverty force cultural clashes and impact generations to come in El Pasado Nunca se Termina.