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.
Friday Evenings 3, Saturday Evenings 2, Sunday Matinees 3
Rituals Festival
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.
The Otis Booth Foundation Series: Thursday Evenings, Casual Fridays (FRC), Saturday Matinees, Sunday Matinees 1
Rituals Festival
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.
Rituals Festival
The Rite of Spring with Salonen
One of music’s most iconic ritualistic expressions meets Prokofiev’s “melody of the highest beauty” (Bachtrack)
