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Quality of Life – Social and Cultural Amenities Symphony Opera | Ballet/Dance | Theater | Galleries/Museums | Public Libraries
Symphony/ Opera City Description
San Diego Symphony performed its first concert on December 6, 1910. In the 99 years since its inception, San Diego Symphony has become one of the leading orchestras in the United States. It is committed to providing musical experiences of superior quality for the greater San Diego community and beyond. Through a rich mixture of innovative and educational San Diego San programming designed to appeal to all ages and cultures, the Symphony makes music an Symphony Diego integral part of the cultural and intellectual fabric of the San Diego region, valued by and relevant to all its residents. The Symphony offers wide range of concert experiences and performs over 100 concerts each season. Historic Copley Symphony Hall, home of the San Diego Symphony, is regarded as one of the finest classical music venues on the West Coast.
www.sandiegosymphony.com
The San Diego Opera, founded in 1965, is dedicated to bringing the finest operatic singers from around the world to perform five operas each season (January-May). Ranked in the top 10 American opera companies by the National Endowment for the Arts and Opera America, San Diego San the company has highlighted such superstars as Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras, Joan Opera Diego Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Beverly Sills. The company owns a scenic studio where it builds sets for stages across the world and sponsors many education and outreach programs, reaching more than 75,000 people annually.
www.sdopera.com
The San Diego Master Chorale includes more than 125 of San Diego's finest singers performing more than 25 concerts a year. As "The Voice of San Diego," the SDMC actively San Diego participates in many community events, in addition to regular appearances with the San San Master Diego Symphony and the San Diego Chamber Orchestra. The Chorale has also made a Diego Chorale number of tours throughout Europe, including performances at St. Paul's Cathedral in London and the Great Dom Cathedral in Salzburg, as well as many other venues in Scotland, Switzerland, and Germany.
www.sdmasterchorale.org
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Ballet/ Dance City Description The San Diego Ballet, founded in 1991, has a well-trained corps of dancers from Robin Morgan's San San Diego School of Ballet and a strong contemporary repertory created by resident San Diego choreographer Javier Velasco. San Diego Ballet's educational outreach program reaches more Diego Ballet than 12,000 children every year in innovated programs designed for K-12 students. San Diego Ballet is also a touring company.
http://sandiegoballet.org
The California Ballet Company (CBC) is a non-profit performing arts organization dedicated to presenting a full season of high-quality professional ballet each year for the greater San Diego California San community. The CBC repertoire encompasses more than 70 ballets. The CBC also provides Ballet Diego outreach programs, including lecture demonstrations and master classes in educational Company institutions. California Ballet School, an affiliate of the performing company, is one of the largest ballet schools in the nation.
www.californiaballet.org
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Theater City Description The internationally-acclaimed, Tony® Award-winning Old Globe is one of the most renowned regional theatres in the country, and has stood as San Diego’s flagship arts institution for more than 70 years. The Old Globe produces a year-round season of 15 plays and musicals on its three stages, including its highly-regarded Shakespeare festival. Numerous Broadway-bound premieres and revivals, such as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, and Damn Yankees have been developed at The Old Globe and have gone on to San Old Globe enjoy highly successful runs in New York and at regional theatres across the country. Diego Modeled after Shakespeare’s Old Globe in London, the Old Globe Theatre was built in 1935 to present abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays as part of the California Pacific International Exposition. At the conclusion of the exposition in 1937, a non-profit production corporation, the San Diego Community Theatre, leased the theatre and adjacent building from the city of San Diego (an arrangement that continues today) and renovated the theatre for ongoing use.
www.oldglobe.org
The California Center for the Arts is located on a 12-acre campus in downtown Escondido. California The center includes a 1,523-seat concert hall with a magnificent proscenium stage, 406- Center seat Center Theatre, museum, gallery, and conference center with over 12,000 square feet for the Escondido of meeting space. Since its opening on October 1, 1994, The Center has attracted more Arts than a million visitors through its performing and visual arts presentations, events in the Escondido Conference Center, and education programs.
www.artcenter.org
North Coast Rep's mission is to create a platform where artist and audience thrive through the intimacy of live theatre, recognizing the power of theatre to challenge complacency, North revitalize the imagination, nurture the unexpected and embrace the variety and diversity in Coast Solana our lives. From its modest beginning over 25 years ago, the North Coast Repertory Repertory Beach Theatre, a non-profit organization, has evolved into one of the area's leading performing Theatre arts organizations, recognized for the quality of its work and its commitment to excellence. The Playhouse seats 194 with only six rows from the stage to the back of the house, making it one of San Diego's most intimate theaters.
www.northcoastrep.org
East The East County Performing Arts Center in El Cajon is one of the premier performing arts County venues in San Diego County. For more than 20 years, ECPAC has linked East County Performing El Cajon communities to the world of the arts. Located just 15 miles east of downtown San Diego, Arts this 1,142-seat modern theater is owned by the city of El Cajon and managed by the Art Center Beat Management.
www.ecpaclive.com Source: Respective institutions
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Galleries/ Museums Location Description The San Diego Museum of Art has been the region's primary resource for exhibitions San Diego and collections of fine art for more than 75 years. Located in the heart of Balboa Park, Museum San Diego the museum's galleries offer opportunities for learning, introspection, and connection of Art with cultures from around the world.
www.sdmart.org
The permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) includes more than 3,000 works created after 1950, representing all media and genres: La Jolla painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, film, and installation. MCASD Museum of and is known for collecting works by promising emerging artists and under-recognized, Contemporary Downtown mid-career artists, as well as by major figures in contemporary art. Among the Art San Diego San Diego greatest strengths of the MCASD collection are minimalism and Pop art of the 1960s and '70s, conceptual art from the 1960s to the present, installation art, Latin American art, and art from California and the San Diego/Tijuana region.
www.mcasd.org
Founded in 1874, the San Diego Society of Natural History is the oldest scientific San Diego institution in Southern California and the second oldest west of the Mississippi. The Natural museum's goals are to interpret the natural world through research, education and San Diego History exhibits; to promote understanding of the evolution and diversity of southern California Museum and the peninsula of Baja California; and to inspire in all a respect for nature and the environment.
www.sdnhm.org
The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) opened in 1983 as one of the few museum Museum of facilities in the United States designed exclusively to collect and present the world's Photographic San Diego finest examples of photographic art. MoPA has displayed works from the entire history Arts of the medium. MoPA’s permanent collection currently includes more than 6,800 photographs that span the history of photography.
www.mopa.org
The mission of the San Diego Museum of Man is to gain and disseminate knowledge of San Diego human biocultural development for a broad and diverse audience. San Diego's only Museum San Diego anthropological museum, the Museum of Man houses one of the nation's great of Man collections of artifacts, folk art, and archaeological finds.
www.museumofman.org
The San Diego Air & Space Museum chronicles the extraordinary accomplishments of San Diego the world’s leading aviation pioneers, pilots, engineers, and industrialists. The Air & Space San Diego museum’s exquisite collection of aircraft spans the eras of flight from the earliest take- Museum offs through space exploration, up to and including the present day.
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Galleries/ Museums Location Description
The San Diego Maritime Museum, founded in 1948, is a floating display of maritime San Diego history. The museum features the Star of India, the ferryboat Berkeley, and the Maritime San Diego steamboat Medea. The Star of India, the world's oldest seafaring ship, made her way Museum to the San Diego Bay in 1923. She sat in port for more than 50 years until 1976, when generous funding helped restore her to her original condition.
www.sdmaritime.com
The Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum displays more than 150 species of marine life Stephen Birch native to the Pacific Coast. The centerpiece of the aquarium is a 70,000-gallon tank, Aquarium- La Jolla which features the marine life native to the La Jolla coast. The Stephen Birch Museum Aquarium-Museum provides ocean science education through creative exhibits, programs, and activities designed to make science relevant to visitors' daily lives.
http://aquarium.ucsd.edu
The Museum of the San Diego Historic Society, located in Balboa Park, presents the colorful and diverse history of the region, interpreting San Diego's growth since the Museum of 1840s. The museum offers permanent and changing exhibits from the society's the San Diego collections as well as from national and international traveling shows. The museum's San Diego Historical Research Library holds more than 45 million pieces of paper and 2.5 million images Society that document the people, places, and events of San Diego’s past. Public lectures, workshops, and educational programs are presented in the museum's 100-seat theater.
www.sandiegohistory.org
Mingei San Diego The Mingei International Museum features examples of traditional and contemporary International and folk art, craft, and design, including books, textiles, jewelry, ceramics, and toys from Museum Escondido around the world.
www.mingei.org
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Public Libraries Locations Web Site
City of 37 branches www.sandiego.gov/public- San Diego throughout the
library Public Library city of San Diego
San Diego 32 branches and two mobile libraries
County www.sdcl.org throughout San Diego County Library
Throughout Several individual cities also San Diego operate their own libraries County
Source: Respective institutions and governmental agencies