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San Diego Opera Holds Free Lunchtime Performance

By City News Service,  Matthew Bowler / Video Journalist
Published January 29, 2015 at 4:27 AM PST
This story was published more than 9 years ago.
Attendees are pictured being treated to a free, outdoor opera performance on Jan. 29, 2015.
Matthew Bowler
Attendees are pictured being treated to a free, outdoor opera performance on Jan. 29, 2015.

For the first time in 12 years, the San Diego Opera hosted a free lunchtime performance on the downtown Community Concourse Thursday.

The 45-minute show served as a thank you to the San Diego community for its support last season when the cash-strapped opera nearly closed for good.

Nicolas Reveles, the director of community engagement for the Opera, said he was surprised to know how much time had passed since the company offered a free show.

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"We didn't realize it had been such a long time," Reveles told KPBS.

Additional free lunchtime performances are scheduled for the same time on Feb. 19 and March 19.

Thursday's performance featured university students enrolled in a program called Opera Exposed. Next month's will feature the artists of Mozart's Don Giovanni and in March, the singers of John Adams' Nixon in China will perform.

In case of inclement weather, performances will be moved inside the San Diego Civic Theatre at 1100 Third Ave.

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Matthew Bowler
Matthew Bowler is an award-winning journalist from San Diego. Bowler comes from a long line of San Diego journalists. Both his father and grandfather worked as journalists covering San Diego. He is also a third generation San Diego State University graduate, where he studied art with a specialty in painting and printmaking. Bowler moved to the South of France after graduating from SDSU. While there he participated in many art exhibitions. The newspaper “La Marseillaise” called his work “les oeuvres impossible” or “the impossible works.” After his year in Provence, Bowler returned to San Diego and began to work as a freelance photographer for newspapers and magazines. Some years later, he discovered his passion for reporting the news, for getting at the truth, for impacting lives. Bowler is privileged to have received many San Diego Press Club Awards along with two Emmy's.
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