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Rosal\u00eda performs at Kia Forum in Los Angeles on June 29, 2026. Photos: Beth Savaro.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\tRosal\u00eda performs at Kia Forum in Los Angeles on June 29, 2026. Photos: Beth Savaro.<\/p>\n
OAKLAND \u2014 Rosal\u00eda had never played Oakland before Monday night, a fact she acknowledged from beneath a floor-length veil \u2014 right after greeting the room with \u201cGood evening, San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n
The crowd forgave her instantly. The two-time Grammy winner brought her Lux Tour to the East Bay. If Motomami Tour\u2019s production was an exercise in minimalism, this one is its maximalist counterpart: an orchestra, army of dancers, custom design costuming and enough saintly references to fill a reliquary.<\/p>\n
The audience came dressed for the liturgy. Taking a cue from the religious iconography of 2025\u2019s Lux<\/a>, attendees arrived in white, lace, veils and even some nun habits; a congregation of Rosal\u00eda clones spanning all ages.<\/p>\n Rosal\u00eda Vila Tobella performed like someone hyper-present in the moment. After an orchestral overture opened the show and led into \u201cSexo, Violencia y Llantos,\u201d she perched on a staircase during \u201cReliquia,\u201d looking fragile, spinning notes as thin yet strong as spider\u2019s webs. Then, \u201cPorcelana\u201d lifted her \u2014 literally \u2014 like a doll inside a jewelry box, dancers rotating her as she walked en pointe across the stage past bodies clad in white, her tutu catching the light as her arms moved like a swan\u2019s wings. The song\u2019s ending grew intense with heavy bass and erratic choreography. Her vocals got a bit lost when she dropped her register, one of the few cracks in an otherwise airtight opening.<\/p>\n For \u201cDivinize,\u201d a long hanging ribbon, blown upward from the stage floor, wrapped around her while dancers draped her in gauze. Then came an unexpected, slowed-down version of Dido\u2019s \u201cThank You,\u201d before she was picked up and spun like a doll through the conclusion.<\/p>\n The Spanish artist\u2019s\u00a0banter was disarmingly sincere.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never played in a place this big here,\u201d she said while wrapping her veil\u2019s fabric around herself. \u201cBeing around the ocean brings me peace. A psychic told me once I would always have to live close to the sea in order to be happy. I think she might\u2019ve been right.\u201d<\/p>\n She introduced \u201cMio Cristo Piange Diamantes\u201d as being rooted in Italy and inspired by Puccini, her favorite composer. The lyrics scrolled above the stage as white light and wind machines sent her veil and hair flying behind her. She looked on the verge of tears. Her voice, however, didn\u2019t waver and the arena became an opera house. Right after, a video interlude of her dancers attempting the song\u2019s high notes \u2014 towels wrapped around their heads \u2014 supplied the comic relief.<\/p>\n In a second act, Rosal\u00eda reemerged in black under a headdress evoking an extravagantly coiffed bird. Dancers pushed her slowly, almost mournfully, across the stage before stripping away her attire. On \u201cBerghain\u201d (performed with the now-famous remix), Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s prerecorded vocals emanated as dancers swirled around Rosal\u00eda, then collapsed to the ground as if shot, before the breakdown gave way to electronic chaos. Her voice still cut through the production.<\/p>\n \u201cYou didn\u2019t come to this show just to cry,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m sure you came to shake some ass, too. Vamos, es que yo s\u00e9 que tienen mucho saoko tambi\u00e9n.\u201d<\/p>\n The Motomami<\/a> stretch that followed \u2014 \u201cSAOKO,\u201d \u201cLA FAMA\u201d (dedicated, after a poll of the room, to \u201cany local mommies in the house\u201d), \u201cLA COMBI VERSACE\u201d and \u201cDe Madrug\u00e1\u201d \u2014 shifted the energy entirely. Rosal\u00eda\u2019s vocals turned punchy, high-pitched, precocious, though her voice got a little lost when she sang fast on \u201cLa Combi Versace,\u201d a nod to her reggaeton collaborations. \u201cDe Madrug\u00e1\u201d featured some of the night\u2019s most interesting blocking. This section was made for visuals; the camera work was so dynamic that the screens threatened to be more interesting than the reality.<\/p>\n Stretches of the show courted the camera openly. What kept it from tipping into pure broadcast was the voice, which no amount of production could bury.<\/p>\n In the third act, Rosal\u00eda sang \u00a0\u201cEl Redentor\u201d from a staircase landing as if summoning something. The sound of footsteps and crashes built tension behind her sinewy vocalizations. Then the set transformed into a landscape painting: Rosal\u00eda in a white floor-length dress and red gloves, framed like a portrait, a crowd of actors below gawking up at her with phones held out. She stepped out of the frame and into the crowd of spectators for a cover of Frankie Valli\u2019s \u201cCan\u2019t Take My Eyes Off You.\u201d<\/p>\n Then came the night\u2019s biggest surprise.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019re ready for tonight\u2019s confessionario,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s fearless and incredibly talented. And so fucking irreverent. Es una reina, co\u00f1o.\u201d<\/p>\n Chappell Roan \u2014 who flew in from Missouri \u2014 appeared in the confession box, setting the arena roaring. The screens showed the two talking through the booth.<\/p>\n Asked if she had anything to get off her chest \u2014 \u201csacarte del pecho\u201d \u2014 Roan confessed to a pandemic-era songwriting flirtation that turned into an online romance, a first date in L.A., a kiss, then four days of silence before learning the other person had met someone else.<\/p>\n \u201cThey said it was casual,\u201d Roan recounted. \u201cThey can turn their emotions on and off like a faucet.\u201d<\/p>\n The story became a song, she said, though she\u2019d never told the story before.<\/p>\n Rosal\u00eda had the perfect response.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a word in Spain \u2014 \u2018una perla\u2019 \u2014 someone who\u2019s a real piece of work, un cabr\u00f3n,\u201d she said. \u201cI wrote a song called \u2018La Perla.\u2019 I think it\u2019s the perfect one to dedicate to your perla. You deserve someone much better.\u201d<\/p>\n Rosal\u00eda performed it in one of the night\u2019s most striking visuals. Despite already having sung a good number of songs, her voice never strained. She slowly removed one glove, then another and kept shedding layers as she sang. Dancers surrounded her to remove more articles of clothing in an intricate optical illusion.<\/p>\n Reading fan letters from the stage, she downed a glass of wine handed up by her pianist, set it atop the piano, and slid into \u201cSauvignon Blanc\u201d amid cellphone lights and glittery flakes drifting through the air.<\/p>\n For \u201cLa Yugular,\u201d she climbed the stairs and smashed her face against a camera mounted beneath the landing, emotion rippling through her voice. At center stage, she sang \u201cDios Es Un Stalker\u201d and the hand-clapped \u201cLa Rumba del Perd\u00f3n,\u201d which gave way to a true switch-up: \u201cCUUUUuuuuuute,\u201d under a pendulum of smoke, with a snippet of Eurythmics\u2019 \u201cSweet Dreams\u201d mashed into EDM.<\/p>\n \u201cBIZCOCHITO\u201d arrived styled like a Victoria\u2019s Secret runway \u2014 Rosal\u00eda in a white feathered boxers-and-bra set with feathery wings against a draped background as she jumped around. On \u201cDESPECH\u00c1\u201d the choreography turned more Latin-inflected while the backup angels staged a pillow fight. The audience danced along.<\/p>\n \u201cFocu \u2018ranni\u201d closed the main set, and \u201cMagnolias\u201d served as the encore.<\/p>\n What made the show intriguing is that its excess never competed with Rosal\u00eda\u2019s voice. Every ribbon, wind machine and collapsing dancer added another register of expressiveness and the instrument underneath proved unimpeachable.<\/p>\n A congregation dresses like its saint because it believes. Two hours of orchestra, thousands of voices singing every word and the one unwavering voice above them all made believing easy.<\/p>\n About The Author<\/p>\n ![\"Rosalia\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260629_ROSALIA-THE-FORUM_@BAETH_BS_05327-copy-200x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Rosalia performs at Kia Forum in Los Angeles on June 29, 2026.<\/p>\n![\"Rosalia\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260629_ROSALIA-THE-FORUM_@BAETH_BS_04954-2222-200x300.jpg\")
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