Arts & Entertainment

Two houses in Guadalajara built by locally-born Pritzker Prize winning minimalist architect Luis Barragan have been given a new lease on life.

Friday, November 11, and Saturday, November 12, are set for this year’s edition of an event — unique, popular and free — that draws artists and art lovers to the upscale, western side of Guadalajara every fall.

The 26 remaining singers of the Coro del Estado de Jalisco (Jalisco State Choir) are reeling from a “slap in the face” delivered to them in August, when they were told by their bosses in the state Secretariat of Culture that, after practicing for six months for the opera Otello, they would not be performing it with the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra in November.  

Artists and audiences are gearing up for the stagings of Verdi’s Italian opera Otello, based on the play by Shakespeare, to be performed November 23, 25, 27 and 30 in Guadalajara’s Teatro Degollado with a slate of acclaimed soloists and the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco) under the direction of Marco Parisotto.

Ted Brandsen boasts a lifelong involvement with the Dutch National Ballet, joining the company in 1981, dancing with them for a decade, becoming a choreographer and now enjoying his 14th season as artistic director. 

Ballet in the park

The state’s only professional ballet troupe performs selected works in Guadalajara’s most popular park.