The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Opera lovers can rejoice at the news that a production of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” (music by Ibsen’s countryman Edvard Grieg) will be mounted at Guadalajara’s Teatro Degollado the first weekend of November, letting loose a bracing gust of Scandinavian culture sure to raise goosebumps on the extremities of the city’s culture vultures.
Ballet de Jalisco
The state’s only full-time professional classical dance troupe gives six open-air presentations on consecutive weekends of the world-famous ballet, Swan Lake, in the city’s most popular and largest park.
Saturday, October 28, the centuries-old, graceful stone facades of Guadalajara’s city center will echo with the sounds of flamboyantly-costumed Day of the Dead celebrants as they strut their stuff down the hot pavements of the late afternoon into the relative cool of the evening.
Slovak dance
Open-air performance by the Slovak National Folklore Ballet Lúčnica, an acclaimed song-and-dance ensemble from Bratislava.
Two festivals, two cities.
Festival Cervantino: a venerated, vaunted veteran ensconced in a graceful, petite comely jewel of a town.
Festival Sucede: a scrappy upstart looking to make a name for itself in a sprawling, unruly metropolis.
The Met: Live in HD
The Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of high-definition live simulcasts begins its 12th season with a new production of Bellini’s “Norma,” directed by Sir David McVicar and conducted by Carlo Rizzi, starring Sondra Radvanovsky.
Cinema Paraiso& Amelie
Musical scores from both award-winning films played by pianist Roberto Salomon. Cinema Paraiso at 4 p.m. and Amelie at 7:30 p.m.