{"id":2126134,"date":"2025-10-31T03:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2126134"},"modified":"2025-10-31T03:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:01:10","slug":"cinballera-entertainment-to-present-week-end-at-the-grand-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cinballera-entertainment-to-present-week-end-at-the-grand-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinballera Entertainment to Present &#8216;Week-end at the Grand Hotel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"page-social-share\">\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"post-skyscraper-ad\">\n                          <\/aside>\n<div class=\"nice-type allow-responsive-videos\">\n<p>California-based Cinballera Entertainment will present \u201cWeek-end at the Grand Hotel\u201d on Nov. 2 and 9 at 3 p.m. at The Grand Ritz Theater in Escondido, California.<\/p>\n<p>The original \u201cballopera\u201d blends cinema, ballet, and opera into a single work inspired by the classic films \u201cGrand Hotel\u201d (1932) and \u201cWeek-end at the Waldorf\u201d (1945).<\/p>\n<p>The work is set in 1945 at the now-demolished Carlsbad Mineral Springs Hotel &amp; Spa and centers on five guests whose lives intertwine over one dramatic weekend \u2014 a despondent opera diva, a disgraced baron-turned-jewel thief, an ambitious stenographer, a shell-shocked Army pilot, and a greedy business tycoon. The score features music ranging from the theatre works of Kurt Weill to arias from grand verismo operas.<\/p>\n<p>The cast includes soprano Tiffany Brannan as Grusinskaya, tenor John Nettles as Baron Felix von Geigern, mezzo-soprano Rebekah Brannan as stenographer Bunny Smith, bass Bryan Dahl as businessman Martin X, and tenor Shawn Taylor as concierge Randy.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Joseph Valent serves as Music Director, providing live piano accompaniment for all vocal and dance numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Cinballera Entertainment was founded by sisters Tiffany and Rebekah Brannan with the aim of blending cinema, ballet, and opera. The company is now in its third season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Related Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source operawire.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California-based Cinballera Entertainment will present \u201cWeek-end at the Grand Hotel\u201d on Nov. 2 and 9 at 3 p.m. at The Grand Ritz Theater in Escondido, California. The original \u201cballopera\u201d blends cinema, ballet, and opera into a single work inspired by the classic films \u201cGrand Hotel\u201d (1932) and \u201cWeek-end at the Waldorf\u201d (1945). The work is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2126135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[403967],"class_list":["post-2126134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cinballera-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cinballera-Entertainment-to-Present-Week-end-at-the-Grand-Hotel.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126136,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126134\/revisions\/2126136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2126135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}