The Guadalajara Reporter
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Dance
MAY CULTURAL FESTIVAL.
The festival opens with Antonio Gades Company from Spain giving two presentations of the famous ballet “Carmen,” with music by Bizet.
Romeo & Juliet
In honor of the 400th anniversary of the death of English literary great William Shakespeare and International Dance Day, the Ballet Jalisco and the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra team up for a special presentation of this famous classical dance work telling the familiar tale of two young lovers at the mercy of powerful families and their own hearts, set to Prokofiev’s soaring score.
Guadalajara-born fantasy and horror director Guillermo del Toro is set to share his vast collection of bizarre curiosities in a new exhibition that will travel to seven major cities, including Mexico City, Los Angeles and Paris.
An impressive — perhaps even staggering — painting retrospective, “Los Modernos” (The Moderns), has just opened at the graceful Museo de las Artes (MUSA) in Guadalajara and will remain until July 10.
Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra
“A Faustian Symphony.” Conductor Marco Parisotto, soloist Cesar Delgado (tenor), with the Coro Varonil. Works by Mozart and Liszt.
A dozen international films will be exhibited in the Universidad de Guadalajara’s Cineforo during the 60th International Film Fest by the Cineteca Nacional.
It’s always a pleasure to visit Guadalajara’s Instituto Cultural Cabañas, whether you’re outside taking in the eerily whimsical bronze “chairs” of the renowned Alejandro Colunga, or inside, soaking in the architecture or laying on benches in the chapel and gazing at the crown jewel of the place, the Mexican-Muralist-era frescoes of the luminary Jose Clemente Orozco.
