Cate Blanchett has been announced for a concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The Oscar-winning actress will join Gustavo Dudamel and the orchestra as narrator in Beethoven’s Egmont, with reimagined narration by Jeremy O. Harris. The program will also include music by Ricardo Lorenz and Schumann, and will include pianist Yunchan Lim and soprano Elena Villalón. Blanchett was recently seen {…}
The LA Philharmonic is set to present Carlos Simon’s “Good News Mass.” The world premiere will be held on April 17 and 18, 2025 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. A setting of the traditional mass in a gospel style, the multimedia piece will be led by Gustavo Dudamel and will feature vocal soloists Zebulon Ellis, Samoht, and Kierra Sheard, the {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
(Photo by Danny Clinch) Gustavo Dudamel hopes to do a joint project between the L.A. Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic. The conductor told the L.A. Times that as he ends his tenure with the LA Phil and begins his new one in New York, he has proposed “joint projects between the L.A. Phil and the New York Philharmonic, just {…}
Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic have announced the 2024-25 Dudamel Fellowship Program participants. The four conductors that will participate this year are Holly Hyun Choe, Dayner Tafur-Diaz, Luis Castillo-Briceño and Molly Turner. Choe comes from South Korea and was raised in Los Angeles. She is the principal conductor of the chamber orchestra Ensemble Reflektor, Artiste {…}
The LA Philharmonic has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Gustavo Dudamel opens the season with Lang Lang and Gustavo Castillo performing the music of Ginastera and Rachmaninoff. Performance Date: Oct. 1, 2024 Gustavo Dudamel conducts the music of Gabriela Ortiz and Mendelssohn alongside Alisa Weilerstein and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Performance Dates: {…}
The LA Philharmonic has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances. Zubin Mehta will conduct Schoenberg’s “Gurrelieder” with Christine Goerke, Brandon Jovanovich, Violeta Urmana, and Gerhard Siegel. Performance Date: Dec. 13 & 15, 2024 Gustavo Dudamel and Simon Keenlyside perform in an all-Mayler program that includes Blumine, Symphony No. 10: Adagio, and Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Performance Dates: Feb. 20-23, {…}
The LA Philharmonic has responded to the false X-Twitter page that falsely announced Zubin Meta’s death. The orchestra said on its X-Twitter page, “It’s come to our attention that there is an account that is spreading misinformation. The LA Phil is in no way associated with the account laphilnews, and no information it posts should be viewed as coming from {…}
LA Philharmonic has announced its 2023-24 season, which will celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary at Disney Hall. Special guest singers join Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil to celebrate iconic protest music by Latina artists with “Canto en resistencia.” Silvana Estrada is the soloist. Performance Dates: Nov. 9-12, 2023 Esa-Pekka Salonen leads Los Angeles Master Chorale in Salonen’s “Karawane” and {…}
On April 14-16 Deaf West Theatre and the LA Philharmonic will partner to present a semi-staged version of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. This production marks Deaf West Theatre’s first opera performance and the first known performance of “Fidelio” with Deaf artists. This production was crafted specifically for both Deaf and hearing audiences. There is a collaboration {…}