Museum as a Stage
Explore the Museum’s world-renowned collection of art paired with an exciting array of concerts and performances.
Museum as a Stage is The San Diego Museum of Art’s performing arts initiative, created to reconnect the performing and visual art traditions and expand the ways audiences experience art.
Together with our partners, the Museum transforms into a place where visual and performing arts enrich one another, inviting audiences to encounter art through music, movement, storytelling, and shared cultural celebration.
Welcome to Museum as a Stage.
Upcoming Performances
October 4, 2026 | Camarada | Poetics of the Arrabal: Opera and Tango
October 30 & 31, 2026 | San Diego Ballet | Día de los Muertos
October 31, 2026 | San Diego Shakespeare Society | Spooky Shakespeare
November 8, 2026 | Classics 4 Kids | Family Concert
December 12, 2026 | Camarada with San Diego Ballet | Let it Snow Family Concert
February 26, 27, & 28, 2027 | San Diego Ballet | Discover: Exploring the Asian Collection
March 18, 2027 | Camarada | Love, Light, & Longing
May 28,29, & 30, 2027 | San Diego Ballet | Imagine Dance Gallery
See the full calendar of upcoming performances at the Museum by clicking the below button.
Meet our Partners
Camarada
Camarada is a chamber music collective dedicated to enriching lives through exceptional performances that bring artists and audiences into meaningful conversation. Camarada embraces both the timeless and the new—presenting beloved masterworks alongside music of our own time, commissioning new works, collaborating with living composers, and creating artistic experiences that reveal fresh perspectives on familiar traditions.
Classics 4 Kids
Educating San Diego County students since 1994, Classics 4 Kids aims to transform children’s lives through innovative educational concerts and music programs that inspire learning, creativity, and community. The group provides critical music education for TK through 6th-grade students through professional orchestra concerts, in-school assemblies, residencies, and virtual programs.
Opera Neo
Opera Neo is a venture for the next generation of opera singers, giving them a place to grow, and creating innovative, entertaining, and thrilling performances. Opera Neo passionately combines historically informed musical performances with stagings that are exciting, entertaining, moving, and relevant to the theatergoers of today.
San Diego Ballet
The mission of the San Diego Ballet is to excite, enrich, and entertain diverse audiences through an imaginative presentation of quality classical and contemporary dance. Under the visionary leadership of Javier Velasco, you do not simply see an San Diego Ballet performance, you feel it.
San Diego Shakespeare Society
The mission of the San Diego Shakespeare Society is to inspire individuals in San Diego County through Shakespeare’s works, empowering them to reflect on the human condition via educational offerings, performances, and other community activities.