Getty Center hosts Canto de Todes on 14 November

Getty Center and Canto de Todes take place together in Los Angeles on 14 November 2026, when artist Dorian Wood presents the performance at the museum’s Harold M. Williams Auditorium. The Getty Center, the J. Paul Getty Museum’s hilltop campus, is also known for its Central Garden and views across the city.

Canto de Todes reaches the Getty Center on 14 November

The programme begins on Saturday, 14 November 2026, at 6.30pm in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium. Getty’s Latin American and Latinx Art Initiative organised the event, which combines a performance by Dorian Wood with a conversation about the work.

The Getty’s event listing describes Canto de Todes as a 70-minute distillation of Wood’s larger composition and installation. Its musical language brings together chamber classical music, folk, torch song and experimental vocal and instrumental elements. The performance is listed by Getty for 14 November.

The event’s wider programme also includes the second movement as a multi-channel composition in the Central Garden on 14 November 2026. The outdoor presentation is scheduled for the day of the auditorium performance, while the evening event provides the formal meeting point for Wood’s live work and conversation.

Richard Meier’s 1997 campus frames the programme

The Getty Center opened to the public in 1997 after construction on a hilltop site in the Santa Monica Mountains. Architect Richard Meier designed the campus, which brings together museum galleries, research facilities, conservation work and gardens above Los Angeles.

The complex is built around pale travertine surfaces, with the Getty reporting roughly 300,000 stone blocks across the architecture. Its five gallery pavilions and Central Garden create a setting in which the November programme moves between auditorium performance and outdoor sound installation. That relationship gives Canto de Todes a direct connection to both the cultural programme and the physical layout of the campus.

The Getty’s account of the opening describes the arrival plaza, the tram approach and the garden as parts of the visitor experience established in 1997. Further background on the site’s opening and architecture appears in the museum’s account of the 1997 opening. The campus therefore functions as more than a room for the performance: its garden is part of the published programme itself.

Visiting Getty Center: what travellers from Western Europe should know

• Canto de Todes is scheduled for 14 November 2026 at the Harold M. Williams Auditorium at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
• The programme includes an evening performance and conversation, with the second movement presented in the Central Garden on 14 November 2026.
• The campus is at 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, California, above the Sepulveda Pass.
• Visitors reach the hilltop complex by the Getty’s tram from the arrival and parking area; the site includes steeply rising terrain, terraces and outdoor paths.
• The Getty Center opened in 1997 and was designed by Richard Meier, with the Central Garden created by Robert Irwin.

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Frequently asked questions about Getty Center

When does Canto de Todes take place at Getty Center?

The performance is scheduled for 14 November 2026 at 6.30pm in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium.

What is Getty Center?

It is a museum and cultural campus in Los Angeles that opened to the public in 1997 and was designed by Richard Meier.

Where is Getty Center and how do you get there?

The address is 1200 Getty Center Drive in Los Angeles. Visitors use the site’s tram from the arrival and parking area to reach the hilltop campus.