The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Ballet de Jalisco has programmed three additional performances of “La Bella Durmiente” (Sleeping Beauty) due to a high demand for tickets.
Sleeping Beauty
For the third consecutive year, the Ballet de Jalisco, the state’s only professional troupe, presents this stunning work by Charles Perrault in the glorious setting of the famed Cabañas Institute. Enhancing the piece will be a multi-media show and fireworks.
Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Friday, April 1; Saturday, April 2; and Sunday, April 3, 8 p.m. Friday, April 8; Saturday, April 9; and Sunday, April 10, 8:15 p.m.
“14 years,” Alfredo Saras says into his cell phone as he moves about Guadalajara’s darkened, table-filled Rojo Cafe, distractedly adjusting sound equipment for a singer about to record a goodbye song dedicated to him.
The University of Guadalajara’s graceful, two-story wedding cake, perhaps best known for the large, striking José Clemente Orozco mural in its auditorium, is throwing the spotlight on a pair of present-day artists so widely different in style and background that their only points in common, other than being men, could be their approximate age and the rough coincidence of their respective shows at the Museo de las Artes (MUSA).
Free recital
Opera gala.
Museo Regional de Guadalajara (Liceo 60), Tuesday, March 29, 8:30 p.m. Free.
This Easter Sunday, English speakers attending St. John Chrysostom (San Juan Crisóstomo) Roman Catholic church are celebrating an anniversary.
The creation of symbol-filled altars dedicated to La Virgen de Dolores (the Virgin of Sorrows) has served as a traditional prelude to Holy Week for generations of families native to Guadalajara and Western Mexico.
