2026/27 Walt Disney Concert Hall
Rituals
In his first season as Creative Director Esa-Pekka Salonen explores one of the defining experiences of our collective humanity: ritual. Across four programs, Salonen, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and inspiring guest artists will tap into sacred, secular, and transformational rites through rapturous music as well as mesmerizing productions by visionary directors Peter Sellars and Yuval Sharon.
Rituals of the Everyday
Green Umbrella New Music Series
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- Program to be announced
Artists
- LA Phil New Music Group
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
- Yuval Sharon, director
Rituals: One Morning Turns Into an Eternity
Esa-Pekka Salonen and theater director Peter Sellars lead an emotional journey from grief to transcendence with operatic Schoenberg and Mahler works.
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- SCHOENBERG
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- WEBERN
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- MAHLER
- No Intermission
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
- Peter Sellars, director
- Ausrine Stundyte, soprano
- Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano
Rituals: Requiem
Esa-Pekka Salonen pairs two requiems: Mozart’s final musical expression of mortality and Ligeti’s mesmerizingly thick and cloudlike Mass of the Dead, memorably included in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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- MOZART
- Intermission
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- LIGETI
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
- Jennifer France, soprano
- Beth Taylor, mezzo-soprano
- Laurence Kilsby, tenor
- Michael Sumuel, bass-baritone
- Los Angeles Master Chorale
- Grant Gershon, Artistic Director
- Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director
Rituals: The Rite of Spring with Salonen
One of music’s most iconic ritualistic expressions meets Prokofiev’s “melody of the highest beauty” (Bachtrack)
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- Steve REICH
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- PROKOFIEV
- Intermission
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- STRAVINSKY
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
- Hilary Hahn, violin