The Hollywood Bowl returns for 2022! Billie Eilish, Ricky Martin, Duran Duran and more join LA Philharmonic Celebrates 100 Years with Star-Packed Schedule
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association announced the 2022 Hollywood Bowl season, celebrating a century of stellar performances at one of the world’s most iconic venues.
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The centennial season offers a spectacular mix of beloved traditions and history-making innovations, tributes to legendary figures of the Bowl’s past and great stars of the present, the best in jazz and popular music and 34 evenings under the stars with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, 10 of them under the baton of Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel.
LA Phil Chief Executive Officer and David C. Bohnett Chief Executive Officer Chair Chad Smith said:
“The Hollywood Bowl is much more than the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.”
For a hundred years, it has been a testament to live music’s power to create community, uniting people from all walks of life in a shared experience like no other. Thanks to the vision of Gustavo Dudamel and the collaboration of an astonishing roster of guest artists, our centennial season will celebrate the enduring spirit of the Hollywood Bowl and everything this magical place has meant to generations of musicians and music lovers alike.”
Gustavo Dudamel said:
“There is truly no place like the Hollywood Bowl.
Nothing can compare to the feeling of performing there on a summer night…”
as our sound seems to pour out from the hills to the thousands of music lovers spread before us, gathered from everywhere in Los Angeles and around the world. We dedicate our programs in this 100th season to all the people who have made the Hollywood Bowl a part of their lives, year after year, and to the new generation, on our stage and in our audience, that is going to carry the magic of this place far into the future.”
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10 Evenings Under the Stars with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil
FREE 101 Festival, Two Nights of Music at the LA Phil’s Iconic Outdoor Venues, the Hollywood Bowl and The Ford
July 4th Fireworks with Steve Martin & Martin Short, the Steep Canyon Rangers and Jeff Babko
Stellar Guest Artists Including Duran Duran, Ricky Martin, Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina, A.R. Rahman, John Fogerty, a-ha, Sheryl Crow, UB40, Diana Ross, Boyz II Men, TLC, Grace Jones, CHVRCHES, Pentatonix and many more
Classical superstars including Lang Lang, Joshua Bell, Seong-Jin Cho and dancers from Paris Opera Ballet among others
Tributes to Bowl Legends with special guests Billie Eilish and Debbie Harry, plus return of Bowl icons including John Williams, Itzhak Perlman and more
Film at the Bowl, with Back to the Future, Black Movie Soundtrack IV, Amadeus,Sing-A-Long Sound of Music, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows TM Part 1,Maestro of the Movies: Celebrating John Williams at 90
Broadway musical Kinky Boots, by Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell
Opera at the Bowl, with Christine Goerke and Matthias Goerne
Joining Dudamel and Yuval Sharon for Act Three of Wagner’s Die Walküre