| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.16.09 8:00 AM |
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Southern California's Top Benefits 2009
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 | The Los Angeles Philharmonic
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1. Carousel of Hope
Barbara Davis’s fund-raiser is known for attracting celebrities and raising big bucks—more than $80 million since its inception in 1982. Last year’s ball at the Beverly Hilton honored Pauletta and Denzel Washington, and included performances by the Jonas Brothers and Josh Groban.
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| EVENT REPORT 09.09.08 4:29 PM |
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L.A. Opera Gala Transforms Music Center Plaza Into Italian Town Square
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 | The opera's Italianate gala
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With Los Angeles Opera's opening weekend celebration to kick off its 2008-2009 season, general director Plácido Domingo's collaborations with Hollywood directors reached a crescendo. The weekend featured classic and new works performed back to back, directed by three film industry giants: William Friedkin, David Cronenberg, and Woody Allen, in his maiden voyage on the opera stage.
Longtime board of directors gala chairwoman Mary Hayley designed the weekend of parties, and Jill Michnick, assistant director of development for special events, executed it with the help of Special Occasions Inc., which constructed the Italianate town square-style setting for Saturday's opening-night gala.
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| NEWS 04.22.08 5:59 PM |
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Landmark Theatres to Show L.A. Opera Gala Concert
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The benefit concert that preceded last weekend's Los Angeles Opera gala is now moving to movie theaters, with the Landmark Theatres chain hosting screenings of the "Plácido Domingo 40th Anniversary Gala Concert" in 22 U.S. theaters on May 11. The concert celebrates the 40th anniversary of Domingo's first professional appearance in L.A. and features arias and duets sung by Domingo and soprano Patricia Racette. Cities showing the movie will include Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Seattle, Houston, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. —Alesandra Dubin
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| EVENT REPORT 04.21.08 6:26 PM |
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Opera Gala Employs Spanish Theme in Homage to Plácido Domingo
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If anyone can carry the heavy mantle of being larger than life, it's Plácido Domingo, the Los Angeles Opera's Eli and Edythe Broad general director and arguably the world's greatest tenor (as he's dubbed by this month's BBC Music Magazine). With this year's spring opera gala built around Domingo's 40 years as a performer and arts administrator in Los Angeles, Domingo easily made the transition from mere man to theme.
The Plácido Domingo 40th anniversary gala, as it was known, began on Friday with a one-night-only concert at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion performed by Domingo and soprano Patricia Racette, conducted by the opera's music director, James Conlon. Four encores later, the audience surged out of the concert hall, and 630 guests in black tie passed below three chandeliers hanging from a tented entryway leading to the Music Center Plaza, which organizers had enclosed with temporary walls. Inside, guests found a springtime garden setting designed by Jill Michnick, the company's assistant director of development for special events, in concert with the event co-chairs, Eva and Marc Stern and Carol and Warner Henry.
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| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.29.08 11:15 PM |
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Southern California's Top Benefits 2008
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 | The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's Dinosaur Ball
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1. Carousel of Hope
Usually called the Carousel Ball, this red-letter event on L.A.’s social calendar is such a production that it’s held only once every two years. The host is Barbara Davis, half of a Hollywood power couple with her late billionaire husband, former 20th Century Fox owner Marvin Davis. Their A-list friends will turn out in droves at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in October for this fund-raiser for children’s diabetes.
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Southern California's Top 100 Events, Nancy Davis Foundation for MS, Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Saks Fifth Avenue, Mercedes-Benz, Unicef, U.C.L.A. Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, HollyRod Foundation, Chrysalis, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Friends of the USC Libraries, Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation, Concern Foundation, Los Angeles Magazine, California Science Center, Fulfillment Fund, Geffen Playhouse, Tiger Woods Foundation |
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