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Join the Library for an afternoon of opera as soprano Gabriella Rodmac takes the stage for "The Girl from the West." She'll be accompanied by Michele Scanlon in a performance featuring Spanish boleros, "West Side Story" highlights and some Italian favorites. Doors open at 12:45 p.m. About Gabriella Rodmac Born in San Diego, California and raised also in Tijuana, Mexico. Gabriella began her musical journey at a very young age performing at school concerts and as a member of the local church choir. She studied classical singing at the Conservatorio de la OBC in Tijuana after which she enrolled as a Dramatic Arts major and music minor at Mesa College in San Diego. Gabriella continued her theatrical studies in Madrid, Spain at the Escuela Superior de Artes y Espectaculos. In 2010 Gabriella performed the role of Carmen in a production of Bizet's opera at Festival De Opera en la Calle with Opera de Tijuana. She continued her collaboration with them until 2012 including the role of Lola in "Cavalleria Rusticana." After obtaining her Bachelor’s in Classical Singing at Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan she went on to debut her first operatic role in a production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Busseto, Italy, where she went back to perform the role of Kate Pinkerton in "Puccini's Madama Butterfly." She was Tosca in a concert form production of "Puccini's Opera" at Teatro Gatto in Switzerland and reprised the role of Donna Elvira in a production of "Don Giovanni" in Varese, Italy. She was Maria in a Scuola Civica Claudio Abbado's production of "West Side Story" and reprised the role in two other occasions in the city of Milan. She recently performed the roles of La Fata Turchina and La Volpe in a production of Natalia Valli's "Pinocchio" and Serafina in Opera Italia’s production of "Donizetti’s Il Campanello" in Los Angeles. She currently trains and performs in Italy where she also resides. Gabriella is currently on her second consecutive season on the 2024-2025 Singer Roster at Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto, one of Italy’s most important opera companies and an official member of the historical choir Corale Monzese in Italy. Gabriella is known for the warmth and roundness of her voice as well as for the extended range and versatility. Her recent collaboration with the city of Coronado brought about the sold out concert: "Le Stagioni dell'Amore (The Season's of Love)." Gabriella has sung at numerous prestigious venues including but not limited to Vigorelli Stadium in Milan, Italy where she was invited to sing the US National Anthem in collaboration with the U.S Consulate of Milan, at the XXV Italian Super Bowl. Gabriella Rodmac on Facebook / Instagram

San Diego's East Village art house cinema screens a restored grindhouse thriller and a pair of Akira Kurosawa classics this month.

President Trump has made major changes at the Kennedy Center this year, ousting the board chair and president, and naming himself host of the organization's yearly awards show.

In 2023, we interviewed them to see how the Israel-Hamas war was affecting their ability to feel compassion and empathy. In the wake of the ceasefire this fall, we followed up. What's changed?

Lang Lang is a leading figure in classical music today—as a pianist, educator, and philanthropist, he has become one of the world’s most influential and committed ambassadors for the arts in the 21st century. Equally happy playing for billions of viewers at the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony in Beijing, the 2020 Dubai EXPO Opening Ceremony, the 2024 Reopening of Notre Dame in Paris, or just for a few hundred children in public schools, he is a master of communicating through music. Visit: https://theconrad.org/events/lang-lang-3/ Lang Lang on Instagram and Facebook

The Zac Brown Band's first five albums hit #1 on the Billboard Country Charts. Their latest is Love & Fear.

La Jolla Playhouse premieres a musical adaptation of Mike Nichols' 1988 hit film, with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper.

Tierra Caliente Academy of Arts and Acting School H2O presentan: "El Anima del Cerro Prieto." Teatro en español – Trama: Tomando lugar en 1902, Severano Robledo, un hombre duro de corazón, no mide las consecuencias de su actitud déspota y altanera. Las humillaciones de Severiano hacia Marta Cabral, un viejo amor, y sus propios trabajadores, pronto desatan una serie de tragedias de las cuales nace la leyenda mas famosa de Jerez, Zacatecas. Director: Gabriel Fernandez Escrita por: Soledad Escobedo Productoras: Mari Burns y Soledad Escobedo — Tierra Caliente Academy of Arts and Acting School H2O present: "The Spirit of Cerro Prieto." Theater in Spanish – Plot: Set in 1902, Severano Robledo, a hard-hearted man, shows no regard for the consequences of his despotic and arrogant attitude. Severano’s humiliations toward Marta Cabral, an old love, and his own workers soon unleash a series of tragedies from which the most famous legend of Jerez, Zacatecas, is born. Director: Gabriel Fernandez Written by: Soledad Escobedo Producers: Mari Burns and Soledad Escobedo Tierra Caliente Academy of Arts and Acting School H2O on Facebook / Instagram

Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia said they were pulling out of the contest after organizers decided to allow Israel to continue to compete, despite tensions over its conduct in Gaza.

"If you close your eyes, you might wake up inside the movie, unstuck from time yourself." — New York Times A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival, Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard, who tells him that his father’s death, the death that has struck him in his country, has not yet occurred and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time of which the length cannot be defined. Jozef will come to realize that the Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form. A stop-motion/live-action masterpiece inspired by the works of Jewish-Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz, this personal passion project is the first feature by the Brothers Quay since "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes" (2005) nearly 20 years ago. Digital Gym Cinema on Facebook / Instagram