Resident Director of the Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor and composer José Luis Domínguez is one of Chile's leading musicians. Set in California during the Gold Rush of the mid-nineteenth century, The Legend of Joaquín Murieta is both an exciting contemporary 'action ballet' and a stand-alone work in the great tradition of symphonic film music. Its subject is the Californian brigand Joaquín Murieta, often seen as the inspiration for Zorro, and the struggle of a small settlement against the Galgos (The Hounds), a North American gang of vigilantes who harass immigrants and Native Americans.