FILE - Gustavo Dudamel arrives at the AFI Fest premiere of "Music By John Williams" in Los Angeles on Oct. 23, 2024. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Gustavo Dudamel is introduced as the New York Philharmonic's 27th music and artistic director, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, in the newly renovated David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
FILE - Conductor Gustavo Dudamel appears with the LA Philharmonic during the "In Memoriam" presentation at the Oscars in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, 2019. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Gustavo Dudamel arrives at the AFI Fest premiere of "Music By John Williams" in Los Angeles on Oct. 23, 2024. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - Gustavo Dudamel is introduced as the New York Philharmonic's 27th music and artistic director, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, in the newly renovated David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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FILE - Conductor Gustavo Dudamel appears with the LA Philharmonic during the "In Memoriam" presentation at the Oscars in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, 2019. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gustavo Dudamel will conduct concert performances of Wagner’s “Die Walküre” in a highlight of his 17th and final season as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's music director.
He will lead one act per performance from May 19-21 and repeat the programs from May 22-24 with a cast that includes Christine Goerke and Ryan Speedo Green, the orchestra said Thursday in announcing a 2025-26 season it is calling “Gracias Gustavo.” Scenic design will be by Frank Gehry, the architect of Walt Disney Hall.
Dudamel will conduct John Adams’ “Harmonium” and Antonio Estévez’s “Cantata Criolla” from June 5-7, 2026, in his final concerts at Disney Hall as music director. Dudamel chose the works to honor his Venezuelan and American identities.
He will lead the orchestra in its 2026 Hollywood Bowl season before of the New York Philharmonic in 2026.
LA’s season opens on Sept. 25 with Dudamel and a world premiere of a currently 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.
