Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil perform Gabriela Ortiz's Revolución diamantina
Take a listen to the Grammy-winning recording from the world premiere performance in November 2023.
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s recording of Gabriela Ortiz’s Revolución diamantina took home three Grammy Awards in the 2025 ceremony: Best Orchestral Performance, Best Contemporary Classical Composition, and Best Classical Compendium.
As curator of the 2023/24 LA Phil season’s Pan-American Music Initiative, Ortiz showcased themes of Latina feminism and art as cultural protest with the Canto en resistencia concerts and throughout the inaugural California Festival. The latter included the world premiere of Revolución diamantina, a ballet score named after Mexico City’s 2019 Glitter Revolution, in which women took to the streets to protest sexual violence.
“I threw myself into the task of exploring thematic connections that had to do with earthly matters—with humanity in all its complexity, but from a subversive, feminine point of view,” Ortiz wrote in her program note.
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