Arts & Entertainment

Although hobbled by two incomplete and rocky transitions — of state governors and artistic directors — the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra has embarked on its first season of 2013.

With the abrupt exit of Alondra de La Parra after only 10 months as artistic director of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra, and the imminent installation of new state politicians to control the orchestra, changes are whizzing around as fast as the jet that took the acclaimed young director to Europe the day after she stepped down last week.

Guest conductor Anatoly Zatin leads the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra’s first major concert of the year.  This benefit concert features Shostakovich’s “Festival Overture,” “Piano Concerto No. 2,” Prokofiev’s “La Suite Escita,” and Scriabin’s “Prometheus, the Poem of Fire.”  Invited performers are the Zapopan Choir, directed by Santiago Cumplido, and pianists Daniela Liebman and Vlada Vassilieva.  The beneficiary from the concert is the Mexican chapter of the World Children’s Transplant Fund.

Guadalajara-born film director Patricia Riggen is to direct a movie based on the true story of 33 Chilean miners who were trapped in a collapsed mining shaft for 69 days in 2010.

Just 10 months after assuming the post as director of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra, 32-year-old Alondra de la Parra has handed in her resignation.

Nominated for an Oscar for best foreign-language film, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s “No” stars Tapatio actor Gael Garcia Bernal playing an advertising executive who helps oust Chilean dictator Augustin Pinochet.