Disney’s Encanto In Concert

Disney’s *Encanto* (2021) is an animated musical set within a multigenerational Colombian family whose members carry supernatural gifts, except for Mirabel, who becomes the one to investigate why those powers are fading. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s songs sit alongside Germaine Franco’s orchestral score, which draws on Colombian rhythms and ensemble color to frame the family’s internal tensions as civic responsibility. At David Geffen Hall, conductor Nicholas Hersh leads the New York Philharmonic in a film-with-live-orchestra presentation that foregrounds the writing beneath the dialogue. In New York, it reads as a case study in how contemporary animation has become a serious venue for concert repertoire.