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Rigoletto

Name: Rigoletto
Start: 2026-10-23T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-10-23T22:30:00-07:00
Location: San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave, San Diego, CA 92101

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Friday, October 23, 2026

7:30 PM PDT – 10:30 PM PDT

San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave, San Diego, CA 92101

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A father would burn the world down to protect his daughter — and in Verdi's hands, that love becomes one of the most devastating tragedies ever set to music. Rigoletto is the story of a court jester whose bitter tongue and hidden, fierce devotion to his daughter set a curse in motion he cannot stop, and it contains melodies so famous you will recognize them the instant they rise, even if you have never seen an opera in your life. San Diego Opera stages it at the Civic Theatre with baritone Michael Chioldi in the title role and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra live in the pit — the full, overwhelming machinery of grand opera aimed straight at the heart. If you have always meant to try opera, this is the one: gorgeous, furious, and only three performances. For anyone who has ever loved someone enough to be frightened by it. October 23, 2026, San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave, San Diego.

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Water for Elephants

Aug 18, 2026 $45+ San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Thir…

Everyone has had the fantasy at least once — to walk away from the life that is crushing you, hop the next train, and vanish into something stranger and more alive. Water for Elephants is that fantasy made into a Broadway musical: a young man with nothing left loses himself to a Depression-era circus, its beautiful danger, its found family of outcasts, and a love that could get them both killed. The stage production is a marvel of real circus craft — acrobats, aerialists, an entire vanished world conjured out of trunks and rope and longing. It aches with the particular romance of the open road and the people who live outside the ordinary. The Civic Theatre gives it room to soar. August 18 through 23, 2026, downtown San Diego. Come for the spectacle, and stay for the old, sweet, dangerous idea that it is never quite too late to run away and start over.

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The Phantom of the Opera

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The first time the organ crashes in and the chandelier begins its slow, terrible rise, something happens in the body that no amount of knowing-better can talk you out of. Phantom has been seducing audiences for four decades because it is unashamed of the things theater is supposedly too sophisticated for now — grand romance, real spectacle, a melody that lodges in you for a week. This touring production brings the full machinery to the Civic Theatre: the boat on the misty lake, the falling chandelier, that voice pleading from behind the mirror. It is opera for people who think they do not like opera, gothic melodrama played completely straight and all the more overwhelming for it. Dress up a little; it is that kind of night. September 2 through 13, 2026, downtown San Diego. Come surrender to the swell of it, and remember why a room full of strangers still gasps at the same moment, together, in the dark.

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Killers of Kill Tony

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Marisela: Eterna Tour 2026 — San Diego Civic Theatre

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Some voices carry a whole history in a single note. Marisela's voice carries quinceañeras and kitchen radios and the moment your mom stopped what she was doing to turn up the volume because Sin El was playing and nothing else in the world mattered for three minutes. Marisela brings the Eterna Tour 2026 to the San Diego Civic Theatre on Saturday, November 14 at 8 PM. The Civic Theatre is a 2,967-seat venue in downtown San Diego that pairs the elegance of a performing arts center with the intimacy of a room where a ballad singer can make every seat feel like the front row. Marisela has been the voice of Mexican romantic balladry for over forty years — an artist whose catalog is not just listened to but lived in by the communities who grew up with it. The Civic Theatre is at 1100 Third Avenue, a short walk from the Gaslamp Quarter and the Convention Center trolley stop. Parking at the Civic Center garage. This is the show you bring the person who raised you on this music. They've been waiting for you to suggest it.

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Rigoletto

Water for Elephants

The Phantom of the Opera

Killers of Kill Tony

Sonic Live in Concert — Civic Theatre, San Diego

Oh, Mary!

The Outsiders

Bluey's Big Play

Marisela: Eterna Tour 2026 — San Diego Civic Theatre

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