Great Park Live amphitheater in Irvine, California, is the new outdoor venue for the Pacific Symphony’s summertime concerts. Photo courtesy of the City of Irvine.
In Wednesday’s (6/19) Los Angeles Times, Sarah Mosqueda writes, “When the Irvine Meadows concert venue was closed in 2016, the Pacific Symphony lost the site of its annual summer program. ‘Pacific Symphony had a multi-decade relationship with Irvine Meadows, which was our first summer home,’ said John Forsyte, Pacific Symphony’s president and chief executive…. Pacific Symphony has been the resident orchestra of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall since 2009. From 1987 to 2016, Irvine Meadows, which later became known as the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, hosted the symphony’s summer concert series with orchestral music under the stars.” The orchestra later moved to FivePoint Amphitheater, which in closed in 2023. “The city of Irvine planned a temporary live music venue to replace it. The result is Great Park Live, an outdoor live entertainment venue that will serve as the summer home for Pacific Symphony this season…. Forsyte said the symphony is happy to have a new summer home: ‘I think outdoor experiences with a symphony orchestra affords us an opportunity to serve a multigenerational and multicultural audience.’ ”
