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French Fairytales: Ravel & Debussy
2025-10-03 - 2025-10-05 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Glorious and theatrical celebration of the light and enchantment of France and French music, beginning with Debussy’s evocation of a journey to a mysterious island of love, and his witty and charming ballet score for children about the adventures of a box of toys.

Romantic Visions: Schumann’s Symphony No. 2
2025-10-11 - 2025-10-12 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Spain as evoked by the French composer Chabrier is followed by a lush new piano concerto, written by San Diego Symphony Composer-in-Residence Jimmy López for soloist Javier Perianes and filled with echoes of Latin melodies and dance rhythms.

Music of the Heavens Holt’s Planets
2025-10-17 - 2025-10-18 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
A concert about the skies above us, beginning with Auerbach’s cinematic description of the Ancient Greek mythological hero Icarus followed by Ralph Vaughan Williams’s most popular piece, The Lark Ascending.

The King Singer’s
2025-10-19 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
The King’s Singers, a Grammy and Emmy-award winning a cappella singing group, renowned for their unrivalled technique, musicianship and versatility.

Alisa Wellerstein: Fragments 4
2025-10-29 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
The fourth installment of the groundbreaking performance series for solo cello performed by Alisa Weilerstein, woven together with Johan Sebastian Bach’s third cello suite.

Where the Shining Trumpets Blow: Payare Leads Bruckner No. 4
2025-11-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Bruckner’s spacious symphonies are filled with images of the countryside and high mountains of his native Austria; his Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” is especially loved for its magnificent writing for the horns, using these instruments to suggest wild huntsmen riding across a landscape.

Tales of Enchantment: Hadelich Plays Sibelius
2025-11-14 - 2025-11-15 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
From Schubert in the early 19th century to Sibelius 100 years later, the Romantic composers were fascinated by the strange and the exotic, by the unfamiliar and the otherworldly.

Lea Salonga: Stage, Screen & Everything in Between
2025-11-15 18:00 - 20:00 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Musical theatre royalty and official Disney Legend Lea Salonga is bringing her acclaimed Stage, Screen & Everything In Between tour to the Rady Shell. Lea will perform songs from her iconic roles from Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, Aladdin and Mulan.

Davina and The Vagabonds
2025-11-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Davina Sowers and the Vagabonds have created a stir on the national music scene with their high-energy live shows, level A musicianship, sharp-dressed professionalism, and Sowers’ commanding stage presence.

Drama and Pathos: Goosby Plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
2025-12-06 - 2025-12-07 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Korean composer Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza provides a thrilling opening to a concert of music mixing savage drama with the sweetest possible melodies, played by Randall Goosby.

2 Pianos 4 Hands
2025-12-12 - 2025-12-31 | North Coast Rep, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Dr Suite D, Solana Beach, CA, 92075, United States
This holiday, audience favorite returns with music and laughter. Journey with would-be career, concert pianists who trade stories about piano lessons, pushy parents and eccentric teachers while they play everything from Bach to Billy Joel.

Steve Hackman’s Beethoven X Beyoncé
2026-02-06 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Steve Hackman’s production seamlessly weaves 15 of Beyoncé’s popular songs with the familiar classical music of Beethoven. The production’s emotional peak features the soulful union of two of the most recognizable melodies from each composer: Beyoncé’s “Halo” and the hauntingly beautiful second movement from Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.

Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler
2026-02-07 - 2026-03-15, 2026-02-27 - 2026-03-15 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
Katie Holmes brings to life a landmark role in a new version of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler—a defining masterpiece about honeymooners whose marriage begins to crack and the world around them begins to unravel.

Fiasco Theater’s Bartleby
2026-02-27 - 2026-03-15 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
Fiasco Theater Company and The Old Globe take on Herman Melville’s darkly comic classic—a hilarious and haunting reflection on work, will, and what happens when one mild-mannered employee refuses to go along with the program. This Globe-commissioned world premiere promises a wildly theatrical rediscovery of one of American literature’s most indelible stories.

Recipe: A New Play About Julia Child
2026-02-27 - 2026-03-22 | La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
Before Julia Child became the TV personality that we all know, she careened from Pasadena to New York to Washington DC to Ceylon and finally to Paris’s famed Cordon Bleu cooking school. A funny and delicious new play about the early life of an endlessly fascinating character and her path from confusion to discovery, failure to success.

Carmen
2026-03-27 08:00 - 17:00 | San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 3rd Ave, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
The most fearless and indomitable heroine in all opera is back! When Carmen tosses a flower to the soldier Don José, he becomes obsessed, leaving his post to join her band of smugglers. But when she loses interest and sets her sights on a bullfighter, Don José may not be able to handle the rejection.

August Wilson’s Fences
2026-04-04 - 2026-05-04, 2026-04-17 - 2026-05-03 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
Set in 1957, this Pulitzer Prize and. Tony Award-winning play follows Troy Maxson, a former Negro League baseball star, now a sanitation worker. Grappling with the burden of his broken dreams, Troy struggles to assert control over his family and his future.

Brubeck Quartet’s Time Out
2026-04-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
A record-breaking jazz album by the West Coast-cool Dave Brubeck Quartet that explores a variety of musical styles and time signatures. The first jazz album to sell a million copies was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Enjoy a celebration of the songs from this Grammy Hall of Fame album with a preshow performance from Young Lions Jazz Conservatory.

Journeys to California: Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3
2026-04-10 - 2026-04-11 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
A celebration of music by three composers, all of whom came from elsewhere to live in California: Adam Schoenberg, John Adams, and Rachmaninoff. This delightful fanfare of an overture celebrates the life of P-22, the world-famous mountain lion who lived for a decade in the hills above Los Angeles.

Alien Girls
2026-04-17 - 2026-05-10, 2026-04-18 - 2026-05-10 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
Alien Girls is a heart-filled comedy about the tensions between creating art and creating life. It is a tale of best friends—one pregnant and the other failing to be happy for her. True feelings are revealed, and the fallout may be irreparable.

Star Wars, a New Hope in Concert
2026-04-17 19:30 - 21:30 | The Rady Shell at Jacob Parks, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
Embark on an epic journey to a galaxy, far, far away as you experience the iconic film with John Williams’ legendary Oscar-winning score live to film.

Fliter Plays Chopin
2026-04-18 - 2026-04-19 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
At the center are Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto, written when the great Polish composer and patriot was just 20 years old, and Borodin’s brilliantly colorful and tuneful Second Symphony, evoking the uproarious and warlike merrymaking of medieval knights-in-armor, with their ancient bards and strange-sounding folk-instruments.

A Feast of Beethoven
2026-04-24 - 2026-04-25 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Trevor Pinnock, one of the great masters of Baroque and Classical music in our age, and Alexandra Dovgan, a young pianist already celebrated across the world for the majesty and beauty of her playing, join the Orchestra together for the first time for a glorious all-Beethoven program, filled with high drama, hope, and nobility.

Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band
2026-05-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band is an 18-piece jazz orchestra, led by talented and creative pianist, that combines the big band swing of the 1930s and 1940s with funk and jazz fusion. Fans will recognize the band from the Pixar film The Incredibles and in music from The Naked Gun.

From the Depths to the Heights
2026-05-09 - 2026-05-10 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Renowned Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz writes music of visceral energy and melodic sweetness, and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra is taking part in her new cello concerto Dzonot, specially written for cellist Alisa Weilerstein. The program, led by conductor Rafael Payare concluded with Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 written during World War II as a tribute to “the greatness of the human spirit.”

Purpose
2026-05-12 - 2026-06-07 | La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States
The most awarded play of 2025 makes its West Coast Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse. For decades, the influential Jasper family of Chicago has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, celebrity pastors and congressmen. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced to reckon with decades of secrets and unresolved tensions that threaten to topple their empire.

Kim’s Convenience
2026-05-15 - 2026-06-14 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
Heart and humor take the stage in this award-winning comedy that inspired the hit Netflix series. Korean-born Mr. Kim runs a Toronto convenience store while raising his Canadian children with traditional values. As generational tensions rise, one family’s everyday struggles become a metaphor for a changing society.
