Celebración: 2010 Opening Night Concert at Walt Disney Hall (2011)

"In the Gustavo Dudamel regime so far, the gala opening concert has become the face that the Los Angeles Philharmonic presents to the outside world. In 2010, Dudamel and company reverted to something traditional: short pieces not too taxing on the attention span, with a guest star as a lure. But Dudamel and Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez gave the old formula a neat thematic twist of their own -- all-Rossini in the first half, all-Latin in the second -- and one went away entertained, even enlightened. Florez, who has made a specialty of Rossini, easily peeled off arias from "La Cenerentola" and "Semiramide," his lyrical tenor still youthful and fresh. For the Latin half, Dudamel rocked the house with two of his dance-based specialties: José Pablo Moncayo's "Huapango" and Arturo Márquez's Danzon No. 2 (the LA Phil displayed a good grasp of the clave rhythm in the latter), and Florez served up four highly Romantic canciones. Florez cooked up one of the arrangements ("La flor de la canela") himself." (Variety)