Arts & Entertainment

Included in Guadalajara’s May Festival are a series of recitals to be performed by local choirs, groups and musicians at some of the city’s most iconic templos (churches). 

Contemporary Mondays

The “Sesiones de Música Popular Contemporánea” series of Monday concerts features talented local musicians. May 7: Hard rock/grunge band Cobra Kai. May 14: Klezmer band Sherele.

Live from the Met

Telecast direct from New York of “Cendrillon.”  Jules Massenet’s sumptuous take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met, with Joyce DiDonato starring in the title role.

It’s that time of year again, folks.  What time, you ask? Ramadan? Kwanzaa? Rosh Hashanah? To all those wild guesses I say: wrong, wrong, and wrong again.

Next week, Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1892 opera “Pagliacci” – or Payasos, in Spanish – is coming in all its melodramatic, murderous glory to Guadalajara’s grand dame theater, Teatro Degollado.

Extra ballet shows

Due to popular demand, the Ballet de Jalisco adds two more presentations of the ballet “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” featuring the music of Rachmaninoff,  Tchaikovsky, Wolf-Ferrari, Saint-Säens, Moniuszko, and Khachaturian.