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.
