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Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet is a fast-rising star in the modern ballet world. Artistic Director Benoit Swan-Pouffer has carefully selected elite dancers that are capable of pushing their bodies to produce daring, athletic performances of pieces by today's most innovative choreographers. This program will feature the works of acclaimed international choreographers Angelin Preljocaj of Ballet Preljocaj; Ohad Naharin, Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company; and the award-winning Didy Veldman. Learn more...

Discovered by the great Count Basie, with whom she worked until his death in 1984, vocalist Carmen Bradford has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Tony Bennett and countless other artists. Her soulful vocals and old-school approach to a tune have brought accolades from critics and fans from around the world. The daughter of legendary trumpeter Bobby Bradford, Carmen Bradford has recorded several highly regarded albums. Learn more...

A Little Night Music is a the popular Broadway operetta that follows the romantic lives of several couples and features a great waltz score by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler, based on the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night. Songs include Sondheim's best known tune, "Send In the Clowns." Learn more...

Lyric Opera San Diego presents a unique holiday concert, featuring Christmas carols performed with Irish style, accompanied by Irish dance. Dublin-born composer/musician Gerard Nolan has infused popular Christmas carols with Irish melodies and rhythms, putting a new twist on old favorites. Learn more...

Lyric Opera San Diego presents an English-language opera based on the classic children's story. With its Wagner-influenced score, magical story and comic turns, Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel offers a great introduction to the magic of opera as theater for audience members of all ages. The cast includes children from the Lyric Academy. Learn more...

Shut Up Sweet Charlotte a raucous gender-bending send up of the classic 1960's film Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, which starred legendary ladies of the screen Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland and Agnes Moorehead. This outrageous stage parody delivers a laugh-til-you-cry knockout punch as an irreverent yet loving tribute to the original with an all male cast (except one female who portrays a man!). Learn more...

Packed with a bevy of memorable tunes, Cole Porter's Anything Goes comes to Birch Park North in a production from Lyric Opera San Diego. The musical highlights Porter's signature wit and tunefulness in songs like "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "You're the Top" while telling a wacky tale of mistaken identities on the high seas. Learn more...

Grammy Award-winner Nicholas Payton leads the Nicholas Payton Quintet on a journey through jazz at Birch North Park. Into the Blue is a collection of tunes steeped in melody and groove and highlight for Payton the "true staples of jazz... love songs and the element of dance." Learn more...

Rhythmic and powerful, Marcus Roberts Trio explores the blues and gospel traditions that are part of the essence of jazz. What a Wonderful World features selections from Jelly Roll Morton and arrangements of songs popularized by the greatest jazz improviser of all time, Louis Armstrong, as well as the queen of gospel music, Mahalia Jackson. Learn more...

Although he is now better known for his later work The Chocolate Soldier, A Waltz Dream was the smash success that made Oscar Straus's international reputation, a romantic romp full of glorious Viennese waltzes and wacky comedy. A Waltz Dream features a score full of unforgettable melodies, crazy courtiers disguised as commoners and an all-girl orchestra. Learn more...

The Grammy-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra brings the sound of contemporary Latin music to San Diego. This thirteen-member, all-star ensemble has reintroduced the classic sounds of New York City Salsa to music lovers worldwide on albums like United We Swing. The theater will be set up with a dance floor for what's sure to be a festive event. Learn more...

City Ballet of San Diego presents Just Balanchine. City Ballet is one of the nation's few ensembles licensed by The Balanchine Trust to perform the legendary choreographer's works; they'll present Balanchine's signature piece Serenade, the groundbreaking The Four Temperaments, and the delightfully romantic La Source. Learn more...

Lyric Opera San Diego presents The Keys to New Orleans, an evening of music influenced by the sounds of the Big Easy, featuring Allen Toussaint, Henry Butler and Jon Cleary. Toussaint's songs include such classics as "Working in the Coalmine" and "Ride Your Pony." Butler is an acclaimed jazz pianist, and Cleary's music blends old-school soul with the rich musical heritage of New Orleans. Learn more...

Lyric Opera San Diego presents a double bill of one-act operas for the whole family. Gilbert and Sullivan's legal farce Trial By Jurylaunched their legendary career as collaborators; it is paired with the world premiere of Rumpelstiltskin, written by the Lyric Opera's J. Sherwood Montgomery and Dr. Nicolas Reveles. Learn more...

Known for his solo performances and bestselling albums, Grammy-winning new age instrumentalist George Winston visits Birch North Park for a concert of winter-themed songs on the piano. Winston plays in a variety of styles, including the melodic folk piano style for which he is best known, stride piano, New Orleans R&B piano, Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts pieces and more. Learn more...

Holiday Toons is a fun-filled and family-friendly seasonal sampler of your favorite cartoon-inspired holiday fare. From Alvin and the Chipmunks to Charlie Brown and Snoopy, from Jack Frost to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, this concert will bring a smile to the kid inside everyone. Learn more...

Rockola, known for their live tribune shows to The Beatles' many landmark albums, presents The Beatles' White Album Live with The Magical Symphony Youth Orchestra to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the album's release. Learn more...

Lyric Opera San Diego presents Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera Daughter of the Regiment, a rollicking combination of esprit de corps, comic antics, romance and beautiful music. The production features tenor John Zuckerman in a role debut as Tonio, with soprano Emily Douglass making her company debut as Marie. Learn more...

For over six decades, saxophone master and San Diegan James Moody has serenaded listeners with his signature song "Moody's Mood for Love." A long association with Dizzy Gillespie helped him mold his now legendary improvisational genius and become the world-class soloist he is today. Moody continues to surprise audiences with his vitality, innovative playing style and his great sense of humor. Learn more...

The City Ballet of San Diego presents Carmina Burana, a theatrical ballet version of Carl Orff's classic cantata. Orff's work was based on medieval poetry, and features the familiar "O Fortuna". The program also includes "Kingdom of the Shades" from Petipa's La Bayadère. Learn more...

Mozart's beloved opera The Magic Flute is performed by this astounding company of marionettes. The Salzburg Marionette Theatre is known for performing timeless 18th- and 19th-century operas to recordings of some of the world's leading orchestras and singers. The band of 12 skilled puppeteers manipulate elaborately costumed marionettes -- each more than two feet tall -- in stunning, often hilarious physical feats with an amazingly life-like range of expression. Learn more...

Sordid Lives is a tragic tale of loss, love and white trash etiquette. Sissy is trying to quit smoking, Mama has just died at a local fleabag motel and Brother Boy has been locked up in the mental institution because he thinks he's Tammy Wynette. And you thought you had problems! Many of the cast from the film are on stage on any given night. Learn more...

Del Shores brings his GLAAD Award-winning play, Southern Baptist Sissies, to San Diego, starring Delta Burke and Leslie Jordan. Southern Baptist Sissies is an exploration into the lives of four gay men raised in the church. Through laughter and tears, each story unfolds to reveal a struggle for self-discovery. Learn more...

Charles Baudelaire's seminal masterpiece, Flowers of Evil, was banned upon publication in 1861. Only 20 years earlier, Frederic Chopin's daring musical talent flourished in mid-19th century Paris, the poet's city of inspiration. The bold spirit of these two Romantic geniuses is revealed through lighting, video and live performance in this evocatively dream-like production -- a magical interweaving of poetry by Baudelaire, music by Chopin and art by Delacroix. Learn more...

City Ballet of San Diego, now in its 13th season, continues its acclaimed and hugely popular series of works by the legendary choreographer George Balanchine with Balanchine and More, at the newly-renovated Birch North Park Theatre. The program consists of Balanchine's Apollo and Rubies, both set to music by longtime Balanchine collaborator Igor Stravinsky, plus the award-winning Enigma, a multimedia work from Elizabeth Rowe Wistrich. Learn more...

San Diego's acclaimed City Ballets presents a program of Mozart Masterworks, featuring an abridged version of Mozart's great opera The Magic Flute with live orchestra, opera singers and ballet dancers. Learn more...