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title: "Rosalia Turns the Kia Forum Into a Cathedral on Her Lux Tour"
description: "Rosalía brought her acclaimed 'Lux' tour to the Kia Forum in Inglewood this week, and critics say the orchestral, cross-disciplinary spectacle is among the most ambitious arena shows of the year — part concert, part opera, part something the old building had never seen."
category: "Entertainment"
category_url: https://herald.la/category/entertainment
author: "Valeria Ortiz"
published: 2026-07-02T02:03:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-02T02:03:00.000Z
canonical: https://herald.la/article/rosalia-turns-the-kia-forum-into-a-cathedral-on-her-lux-tour
tags: ["Rosalía", "Lux Tour", "Kia Forum", "Inglewood", "concert", "entertainment"]
---
# Rosalia Turns the Kia Forum Into a Cathedral on Her Lux Tour

Rosalía brought her acclaimed 'Lux' tour to the Kia Forum in Inglewood this week, and critics say the orchestral, cross-disciplinary spectacle is among the most ambitious arena shows of the year — part concert, part opera, part something the old building had never seen.

The Kia Forum in Inglewood has hosted championships and stadium-pop blowouts. This week Rosalía turned it into something closer to a cathedral.

## A show built like a service

The Spanish star's two Forum nights were the Los Angeles stop on the "Lux" tour, supporting her fourth album, "Lux," released in November 2025 and recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. The album was among the most acclaimed releases of the past year; Variety, reviewing the tour, described it as a "brilliant" cross-disciplinary spectacle, [in its concert review](https://variety.com/2026/music/concert-reviews/rosalia-tour-concert-review-forum-lux-1236799736/). Reviewers elsewhere have been similarly struck: The Guardian, covering an earlier date, called it "one of the boldest, most highbrow arena shows in pop history."

## Five acts, an orchestra, and a cross

The production is structured in five acts around a two-stage layout shaped like a Latin cross, with a live orchestra, a troupe of dancers choreographed by the French collective (La)Horde, and staging steeped in religious imagery — down to a giant incense burner suspended over the floor, [according to tour coverage](https://remezcla.com/music/rosalias-lux-tour-2026-here-are-the-setlist-stage-layout-merch/). The "Lux" album itself is organized around female saints and mystics from many traditions, with Rosalía singing across more than a dozen languages, and the show leans fully into that concept.

The setlist ranges across her catalog, pairing new "Lux" material with "MOTOMAMI"-era favorites like "Saoko" and "Despechá," and adding orchestral covers. A recurring "Confessional" segment brings a guest onstage to share a personal story; on the first Forum night, according to tour documentation, that guest was the Colombian star Karol G.

## An LA homecoming

Los Angeles — where parts of "Lux" were recorded — has long been one of Rosalía's creative bases, and the two Inglewood dates were among the tour's biggest North American stops. It is the kind of maximalist, idea-driven arena show that few other pop artists are attempting right now, staged in a building better known for basketball. Critics' verdict, and the fans', was much the same: for a few nights, the Forum became something grander than an arena.

## Sources

- [Rosalía's brilliant 'Lux' tour brings cross-disciplinary spectacle to the Forum](https://variety.com/2026/music/concert-reviews/rosalia-tour-concert-review-forum-lux-1236799736/)
- [Lux Tour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux_Tour)
- [Rosalía's 'LUX Tour 2026': setlist, stage layout, merch](https://remezcla.com/music/rosalias-lux-tour-2026-here-are-the-setlist-stage-layout-merch/)