Los Angeles Philharmonic Director Gustavo Dudamel led an energetic symphony at the first-ever FIFA World Cup Final halftime show on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Dudamel rocked a blue suit with his last name on the back in the same, classic style as the athletes. He led the New York Philharmonic and the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela during the Spain vs. Argentina showdown in New Jersey, along with a surprise appearance by the Muppets.<\/p>\n
His appearance followed pop star Madonna, who kicked off the inaugural halftime with a performance of \u201cMusic.\u201d Following Madonna\u2019s performance, Dudamel\u2019s orchestras performed \u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d by the White Stripes, followed by Norway\u2019s beloved rowing chant.<\/p>\n
South Korean pop band BTS then performed, followed by Justin Bieber and then Shakira.<\/p>\n
Dudamel has served as the LA Philharmonic\u2019s music director since 2009. He was appointed as the music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic, which he will join in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Philharmonic Director Gustavo Dudamel led an energetic symphony at the first-ever FIFA World Cup Final halftime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15392,48,52,51,47,50,49,5393],"class_list":["post-404709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}