Paid attendance at the D’Oyly Carte Opera...

Paid attendance at the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company of Great Britain engagement at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, which ended Sunday, averaged 55.4% of capacity, Center President Thomas R. Kendrick said Monday.

The eight-performance run of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” and “The Pirates of Penzance” grossed $432,945, or 63.8 % of the potential gross, Kendrick said.

Kendrick had told The Times earlier that paid attendance would have to exceed 65% for the Center to break even. The engagement “will require subsidy,” Kendrick said Monday.

Prego Ristorante of Irvine raised about $1,500 for the Irvine Barclay Theatre at the restaurant’s fifth annual grape harvest celebration, “Festa della Vendemmia,” according to Prego manager Louie Salcito. More than 250 people attended the benefit on Sunday which was highlighted by the participation of guests in a traditional barefoot stomping of the one ton of grapes delivered to the event by horse-drawn carriage.

The Visiting Nurses Assn. of Orange County Hospice sponsors its fifth annual “Jazz in the Afternoon” event, featuring composer and pianist Tom Talbert, to be held Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m.in the pianist’s Laguna Beach home.

The event hopes to raise $4,000 for the hospice, according to a spokeswoman for the nonprofit agency that provides care to terminally ill patients and their families. Talbert, who in addition to composing and arranging for a wide rage of jazz artists and groups including Claude Thornhill, Buddy Rich and Anita O’Day, has scored for TV and films and will be joined by a septet. Donation for “Jazz in the Afternoon,” which includes a light buffet, is $40 per person. Information: (714) 771-1209.