The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra’s (OFJ) just-announced first season of the year promises both favorites and adventures, and, from this vantage point, not a single snoozer.
Met Live
The first Met Live Opera simulcast from New York in 2024 is Florencia en el Amazonas.
On each evening of the Book Fair, at around 8 p.m., the FIL Forum presents a program featuring performing artists from the guest of honor, which this year is the European Union.
For someone who is always looking for an excuse to visit Guadalajara‘s Instituto Cultural Cabañas, three current exhibitions (all lasting until well after the first of the year) were perfect.
Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco
Guadalajara-born mezzo-soprano and orchestra director Grace Echauri is the guest conductor for the OFJ’s second program of the season, featuring Dmitri Shostakovich’s Obertura Festival and Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite.
A large exhibit of paintings in Jalisco from the last 200 years, “Tierra Pródiga” (perhaps best translated as Lavish Land), is showing in Guadalajara’s lovely Ex Convento del Carmen through the end of the year.
Guadalajara’s Palacio de las Vacas (Cow Palace) is offering the interactive horror experience El Títere, a play about the chilling world of the Montalvo family and their sinister collection of puppets.
