Overview Experienced Jazz veterans The Cookers are touring with their newest album, “Look Out!” With each member having four decades of experience in the jazz world, this powerhouse group brings the most sophisticated musicianship the Center has yet to see. Formed in 2007, The Cookers’ musicians still follow their own musical pursuits, each contributing a […]
Tosca is Giacomo Puccini’s gripping drama filled with torture, treachery, lust, execution, and suicide. Scarpia, the chief of police, wants only two things: to recapture the escaped prisoner Angelotti and to seduce Tosca, an opera singer of incredible voice and beauty. "Scarpia, the chief of police, wants only two things: to recapture the escaped prisoner […]
Lost in the forest, a prince encounters an ethereal beauty with a mysterious past (and lush locks that would make Rapunzel envious). But after she's brought home to his family, she begins to grow increasingly close to his handsome younger brother. Debussy's sensual, exquisitely nuanced score casts a hypnotic spell, capturing an enigmatic dream world where forbidden […]
DETAILS Experience the power, passion and beauty of The Kingdom Choir in Concert, in their first-and-only San Diego appearance! London’s The Kingdom Choir first attracted the world’s attention when they performed their show-stopping performance of "Stand By Me" in front of a world-wide television audience of over two billion at the Royal Wedding of Prince […]
Overview Pacific Symphony in collaboration with Farhang Foundation welcomes Grammy-nominated musician and composer Kayhan Kalhor to the stage for our annual Nowruz celebration. Kalhor is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso on the kamancheh (spiked fiddle), who has been instrumental in popularizing Persian music around the world. A native of Iran, born in the Kurdish city of […]
Overview Pacific Symphony in collaboration with Farhang Foundation welcomes Grammy-nominated musician and composer Kayhan Kalhor to the stage for our annual Nowruz celebration. Kalhor is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso on the kamancheh (spiked fiddle), who has been instrumental in popularizing Persian music around the world. A native of Iran, born in the Kurdish city of […]
Overview Formed by members of Amsterdam's famed Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO), Camerata RCO most notably performs chamber music in multiple formations from duet to small chamber orchestra. Their special focus on Classical and Romantic repertoire for winds and strings sets them apart from the rest, and their active relationships with living composers allow them to […]
Nothing could be sweeter than the U.S. Premiere of Like Water for Chocolate for American Ballet Theatre’s Spring engagement at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. This full-length ballet created by the brilliant choreographer Christopher Wheeldon brings the famous novel by Laura Esquivel to mouth-watering life. Like Water for Chocolate tells the story of Tita, a […]
About this Performance Fast-rising Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska (now Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic) leads this arresting program, including the soul-filling Violin Concerto by Tchaikovsky played by Randall Goosby, who “plays like an angel with nothing to prove. A cool, calm, collected angel” (Los Angeles Times). To conclude, Stasevska leads one of Sibelius’ […]
City of Stem and LA Maker Faire combine forces to create an interactive event designed to inspire Los Angeles’ next generation of scientific leaders, makers, and creative thinkers! We will have science celebrities like Bill Nye, hundreds of experiences, including hands-on activities, maker exhibitors, expert panels, LA’s leading thinkers, mainstage entertainment, workshops, special guests, and […]
WINE AND JAZZ: A CLASSIC PAIRING…what do they have in common? Everything. Witness musical talent composing jazz with nuances and layers of sound and tones that don’t necessarily strike you right away but reveal themselves over time. Similarly, you don’t do shots of wine. You sip, you savor. If you’re paying attention (and drink the good stuff), you’re […]
One of the most vibrant musical partnerships before the public today, classical music superstar Yo-Yo Ma and his longtime collaborator pianist Kathryn Stott make a special Orange County appearance together.
