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Dudamel also will bring back — and add dance to — two ballet scores that he had previously premiered: Thomas Adès’ “Inferno” and Gabriela Ortiz’s ‘’Revolución diamantina.”

That meant meeting with top-tier artists and experts in the field such as Thomas Adès and opera producer Beth Morrison.

An acquaintance gave Coppola a list of five newish concert composers to check out, including Thomas Adès and the Argentina-born Golijov.

Dudamel, who will leave for the New York Philharmonic in 2026, already has five Grammy Awards after winning one last year with the orchestra for a performance of “Adès: Dante.”

But as the company has taken on far more contemporary opera over the past two decades — in idioms as diverse as the time-stopping repetitions of Philip Glass’s “Satyagraha” and “Akhnaten” and the dense dissonance of Thomas Adès’s “The Exterminating Angel” — the demands have increased.