LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gustavo Dudamel will conduct live performance performances of Wagner’s “Die Walküre” in a spotlight of his seventeenth and closing season because the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director.
He’ll lead one act per efficiency from Could 19-21 and repeat the applications from Could 22-24 with a forged that features Christine Goerke and Ryan Speedo Inexperienced, the orchestra stated Thursday in saying a 2025-26 season it’s calling “Gracias Gustavo.” Scenic design might be by Frank Gehry, the architect of Walt Disney Corridor.
Dudamel will conduct John Adams’ “Harmonium” and Antonio Estévez’s “Cantata Criolla” from June 5-7, 2026, in his closing live shows at Disney Corridor as music director. Dudamel selected the works to honor his Venezuelan and American identities.
He’ll lead the orchestra in its 2026 Hollywood Bowl season earlier than beginning as music director of the New York Philharmonic in 2026.
LA’s season opens on Sept. 25 with Dudamel and a world premiere of a presently untitled work for orchestra and choir by Pulitzer Prize winner composer Ellen Reid that was co-commissioned with the New York Philharmonic.
He takes the orchestra on a tour of Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo; and Taipei, Taiwan, from Oct. 20-30.
