One of The Washington Post’s 2022 “Composers and Performers to Watch,” Raquel Acevedo Klein makes her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut with the LA Phil New Music Group, conducting a brand-new arrangement of Darian Donovan Thomas’ “textural, synth-drenched, and ambient reimagining” of Volver, Volver—the Mexican ranchera song by Fernando Maldonado.

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Angélica Negrón & Lido Pimienta

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Los Angeles-based composer, musician, and performance artist San Cha presents a new experimental opera. San Cha appears as Dolores, a beauty of humble means who, after marrying wealthy Salvador, is caught in a web of jealousy and abuse. Esperanza, a genderless being of light and empowerment, visits Dolores, giving her strength to realize her true value. Drawing on influences including Mexican immigrant family life, Catholic church choir, and Bay Area drag, this bold new work merges the dramatic, opulent operatic form with the melodrama of telenovelas. Compositions fusing ranchera, cumbia, punk, classical, and electro music are performed by a stellar cast led by Darian Donovan Thomas alongside stefa marin alarcon, Lu Coy, Kyle Kidd, Carolina Oliveros, and Phong Tran. With its title, Inebria Me references the intoxicating, transcendent, and sublime power of love that conquers all.

Darian Donovan Thomas

Events

Past events

Nov 11, 2025

Angélica Negrón & Lido Pimienta · Los Angeles Philharmonic

16 - 18 Oct, 2025

Inebria Me · Redcat - Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Volver, Volver by Thomas

Los Angeles Philharmonic

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