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Sara Blanch, Gustavo Dudamel & Lucy Crowe Lead BCN Classics’ 2026-27 Season

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BCN Classics has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances. Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic and the Orfeó Català in music by John Adams, Zosha Di Castri, and Prokófiev. Performance Date: Oct. 12, 2026 Lucy Crowe, Carlo Vistoli, Lunga Eric Hallam and Ashley Riches join Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm  for Handel’s “Messiah.” Performance Date: Dec. {…}

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Gustavo Dudamel Calls Timothée Chalamet’s Opera & Ballet Comments ‘Ignorant’

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Gustavo Dudamel is calling out Timothée Chalamet for his comments stating that “no one cares” about opera or ballet. During a press conference at the presentation of the New York Philharmonic’s 2026-27 season, the conductor said, “Sadly sometimes it’s a little bit of ignorance but, look, that is why we have to open more spaces for people to connect with {…}

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Gustavo Dudamel Receives Inaugural Herb Alpert Honor

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The Herb Alpert Foundation has named conductor Gustavo Dudamel as the inaugural recipient of The Herb Alpert Honor, a new $1 million unrestricted grant recognizing an individual whose work has driven meaningful social change through music. The award, announced today, goes jointly to Dudamel and his Dudamel Foundation, which he co-chairs with actress María Valverde. The foundation focuses on music {…}

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Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Jamie Barton, Will Liverman & Gustavo Dudamel Among Grammy Nominees

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The Grammy nominations have been announced. Here are the vocal performances nominated: The Best Opera Recording nominees are Heggie’s “Intelligence” (Kwamé Ryan, Jamie Barton, J’Nai Bridges & Janai Brugger; Blanton Alspaugh, producer), Huang Ruo’s “An American Soldier” (Carolyn Kuan, conductor; Hannah Cho, Alex DeSocio, Nina Yoshida Nelsen & Brian Vu; Adam Abeshouse, Silas Brown & Doron Schachter, producers), Kouyoumdjian’s “Adoration” {…}

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Gustavo Dudamel Among Juilliard’s 2025 Honorary Doctorates

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Juilliard has announced that it will confer honorary doctorates on Gustavo Dudamel, Alicia Graf Mack, Marsha Norman, Masaaki Suzuki, Darren Walker, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Dudamel is a word-renowned conductor and the forthccoming music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic. Mack is the dean and director of Juilliard Dance and incoming artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance {…}

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Gustavo Dudamel, Pretty Yende, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha & Nicholas Brownlee Lead LA Philharmonic’s 2025-26 Season

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The LA Philharmonic has announced its 2025-26 season. Gustavo Dudamel and Los Angeles Master Chorale perform Ellen Reid and Strauss. Performance Dates: Sept. 25-28, 2025 Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with soloists Chen Reiss and Beth Taylor. Performance Dates: Oct. 9-12, 2025 Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a program of music by Debussy, Gabriella Smith, and Scriabin with soloists Pekka {…}

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Gustavo Dudamel & LA Philharmonic to Make History at Coachella

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Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic will make history as the first orchestra to perform at Coachella. The conductor took to social media and said, “First orchestra to perform at Coachella! See you in the desert, friends.” The conductor and orchestra will perform on April 12 and 19, on the same nights that Green Day will headline and Charli XCX {…}

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Gustavo Dudamel Protested in Los Angeles by Human Rights Foundation

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On Oct. 25-27 and Nov. 1-3, the Human Rights Foundation protested Gustavo Dudamel in front of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. The HRF noted that Dudamel has received millions of dollars in off-the-books payments from the Maduro and Chavez dictatorships through “El Sistema,” a state-run music education program, which HRF alleges is an important tool for {…}

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Gustavo Dudamel & LA Philharmonic Open Carnegie Hall

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Carnegie Hall is set to open its 2024-25 season with a performance featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The concert will be held on Oct. 8, 2024 and will be conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Lang Lang will perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 while baritone Gustavo Castillo will perform in Ginastera’s complete ballet music to “Estancia.” The Opening Night performance will {…}