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Samara Joy

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 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.

Symphonic Journeys: Strauss, Walton, Brahms

Jacobs Music Center 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California

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.

Empty Ride

The Old Globe 1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 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 […]

Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends

Ahmanson Theatre 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 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.

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth

A Noise Within 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 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.

Lise Davidsen

broadstage 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, United States

Winner of the Operalia competition in London, opera superstar, Lise Davidsen returns to the BroadStage for the Celebrity Opera Series.

Kodo: Warabe

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 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.

Seong-Jin Cho, A Colburn Celebrity Recital

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 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

Ravel & Brahms

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 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.

An Evening with Joshua Bell & Larisa Martínez: Voice & the Violin

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 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.

A Night at the Copa

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, 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.

Batsheva Dance Company

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 N Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 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 […]

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