Placido Domingo and alumna Deborah Voigt will team to launch the $78-million Marybelle and Sebastian P. Musco Center for the Arts at Chapman University in March.
The 1,044-seat multipurpose performance hall at the private university in Orange features acoustics by Yasuhisa Toyota, whose credits include Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Soka Performing Arts Center at Soka University in Aliso Viejo.
William Hall, dean of Chapman’s College of Performing Arts and artistic director of the new center, said Monday that seven other Chapman-schooled singers who’ve gone on to professional opera and music theater careers will join Domingo and Voigt on opening night, and John DeMain will conduct the orchestra.