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Annie
2025-02-18 - 2025-02-23 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Annie, the beloved story about an orphan girl, features the iconic book and score, written by Tony Award-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. This celebration of family, optimism and the American spirit remains the ultimate cure for all the hard knocks life throws your way.

Hector Olivera, Organ Recital
2025-02-16 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Argentinian organist Hector Olivera exercises his remarkable finger and footwork with the 6,134 pipes of “Hurricane Mama.”.

Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science
2025-02-15 19:30 - 21:30 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Grammy award winner, drummer and composer Terri Lyne Carrington takes the BroadStage with her multi-talented sextet Social Science to bring their fresh blend of jazz, indie rock, and hip-hop music.

MTT’s Street Songs and Winter Daydreams
2025-02-15 - 2025-02-16 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Beloved American conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas makes his SDSO debut in this special program that opens with his own Street Song for Symphonic Brass. Rising star pianist Parker van Ostrand will join Tilson Thomas and the Symphony for Rachmaninoff’s demanding Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Dvorák Cello Concerto
2025-02-15 | Ambassador Auditorium, 131 S St. John Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91105, United States
Brett Mitchell leads a program with Mark Kosower performing Dvorák’s Cello Concerto. The program will also highlight Wagner’s “Maghic Fire Music” from Die Walküre and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

Takács Quartet with David Requiro, Cello
2025-02-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
The world-renowned Takács Quartet enters its 50th season and returns to Samueli Theater with a beautiful program that will include Haydn, Britten and Schubert.

Batsheva Dance Company
2025-02-14 - 2025-02-16 | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
The critically acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company presents a shared passion of sorrow and beauty in its newest evening length work MOMO, from master choreographer Ohad Naharin. In the company’s words, “MOMO has two souls. One sends long roots to the depths of the earth and the other is in a constant search for an individual and distinct DNA.

A Night at the Copa
2025-02-14 - 2025-02-15 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
A mystery awaits Pacific Symphony with a audience favorite group that returns by popular demand. This ensemble from Portland, Oregon mixes it up with a cocktail of classical zest, Latin heat, and jazz-tinted pop in a polyglot’s dream of seven languages. They’ll be celebrating 30 years of musical escapades this season.

An Evening with Joshua Bell & Larisa Martínez: Voice & the Violin
2025-02-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Husband-and-wife duo Joshua Bell and Larisa Martínez present Voice and the Violin, exploring repertoire from classical art song and opera to musical theater and selections by Puerto Rican and Spanish composers. They join Pacific Symphony and Music Director Carl St.Clair for a special evening during this celebratory season.

Ravel & Brahms
2025-02-13 - 2025-02-16 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho returns to join the LA Philharmonic for Ravel’s joyful Concerto in G, and Grammy award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi leads a Brahms quartet lovingly orchestrated by Schoenberg.

Seong-Jin Cho, A Colburn Celebrity Recital
2025-02-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Seong-Jin Cho, a pianist beloved by audiences worldwide, returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall for a highly anticipated recital of music by Maurice Ravel, showcasing his tender yet assertive technique

Kodo: Warabe
2025-02-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Warabe blends simple forms of taiko expression that celebrate the unique sound, resonance, and physicality synonymous with Kodo—forever children of the drum at heart.

Lise Davidsen
2025-02-11 19:30 - 21:30 | broadstage, 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Winner of the Operalia competition in London, opera superstar, Lise Davidsen returns to the BroadStage for the Celebrity Opera Series.

William Shakespeare's Macbeth
2025-02-09 - 2025-03-09 | A Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91107, United States
In the Bard’s grand and gripping tale of murder, treason, ambition and greed, Macbeth and his wife will stop at nothing in their pursuit of wealth and power.

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2025-02-08 - 2025-03-09 | Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
CTG presents the North American premiere of Old Friends starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga—a theatrical event that is a celebration of the life and work of Stephen Sondheim, musically staged and directed by Matthew Bourne.

Empty Ride
2025-02-08 - 2025-03-02 | The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101, United States
A major new American play that first launched in the 2024 Powers New Voices Festival. Kisa, a painter in Paris, returns to her small Japanese hometown after the 2011 tsunami to help her ailing father by driving his taxi cab. But as she navigates the winding streets and transports her eccentric passengers, she is haunted by the supernatural remnants of what the floodwaters left behind.

Symphonic Journeys: Strauss, Walton, Brahms
2025-02-08 - 2025-02-09 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
Music Director Rafael Payare conducts the Symphony in Strauss’ powerful tone poem along with
William Walton’s beautifully lyrical and nostalgic Viola Concerto with Chi-Yuan Chen on viola. The concert ends with Brahms’ melancholy and hauntingly beautiful Second Symphony.

Samara Joy
2025-02-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
2023 Best New Artist Grammy winner, Samara Joy, makes her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut with her distinctive style and voice that has been compared to legendary singers like Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.

Tchaikovsky & The Mermaid
2025-02-07 - 2025-02-09 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Conductor Xian Zhang leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid, and pianist George Li effortlessly performs Tchaikovsky’s titanic Piano Concerto.
Photo: Xian Jiang courtesy of the L.A. Phil

Pines of Rome
2025-02-06 - 2025-02-08 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Bernstein’s high-spirited musical prelude sets the stage for two contemporary works that follow: a new piano concerto by esteemed composer Adolphus Hailstork and a new and colorful orchestral work by Pacific Symphony’s Composer-in-Residence, Viet Cuong.

The Great Yes, The Great No
2025-02-05 - 2025-02-08 | The Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA, 92010, United States
Conceived and directed by William Kentridge, The Wallis presents The Great Yes, The Great No —party play, part Greek choir, part chamber opera. It is a story that mixes history in 1941 Merseille, with fiction and augments reality.

KODO
2025-02-04 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
The pulse-pounding rhythms of traditional Japanese drumming, taiko, return with a new program, One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe.

Celebrating MTT With Yuja Wang
2025-02-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Michael Tilson Thomas has been part of the LA Phil family for more than five decades, and the orchestra celebrates MTT’s 80th birthday with a not-to-be-missed special night of music.

Lunar New Year with Pacific Symphony
2025-02-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, United States
Join the Pacific Symphony’s annual festivities honoring Lunar New Year with a color presentation of Eastern and Western music and dance.
Photo: A number from Pacific Symphony’s 2022 Lunar New Year program | Credit: Doug Gifford

Kelli O'Hara in Concert
2025-02-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
From her Tony-winning performance in The King and I, to starring in The Hours at the Met and The Gilded Ageon HBO, Kelli O’Hara dazzles at every turn. Her eagerly anticipated company debut, in concert with the LA Opera Orchestra, promises a heart-filling evening of beloved show tunes and more.

Orchestral Evolution: Childs’ Premiere and Beethoven’s Eroica
2025-01-31 - 2025-02-01 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, 92101
The program begins with the World Premiere of LA-born, Grammy award winning composer Billy Child’s Concerto for Orchestra and ends with Beethoven’s Eroica symphony. Pianist Alexander Malofeev also takes the Jacobs Music Center stage in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

Schubert, Strauss & Saariaho
2025-01-30 - 2025-02-02 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Schubert’s chilling yet
charming two-movement symphony, nicknamed the “Unfinished.”

Fake It Until You Make It
2025-01-29 - 2025-03-09 | Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, 90012, United States
A bold world premiere comedy from Los Angeles-based playwright, Larissa FastHorse, who focuses her keen sense of satire to examine Native American perspectives on contemporary life.

LA Phil Etudes with John Adams
2025-01-28 20:00 - 22:00 | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
John and Samantha Williams Creative Chair John Adams returns for the second installment of the LA Phil Etudes each performed by an LA Phil musician. The program will also include a world premiere by Noah Jenkins.
