Arts & Entertainment

Organizers of the Guadalajara International Film Festival have opted to ditch Expo Guadalajara as its sole headquarters in favor of multiple sites based around the “Corredor Vallarta” (a corridor encompassing Avenida Vallarta/Juarez).

A concert featuring famed operatic tenor Javier Camarena with the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra will headline the opening of Guadalajara’s newest performing arts space, the Palacio de la Cultura y la Comunicación (Palcco) on Tuesday, February 9. Tickets are priced from 600 to 1,500 pesos.

Aficionados of traditional folk dance will have multiple opportunities to enjoy a broad selection of colorful and emotional dances performed by the  Ballet México Folklórico, directed by Paul Alba, each Sunday in January and February.

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The season of New York Met live simulcasts starts the new year with “The Pearl Fishers,” Bizet’s opera of lust and longing set in the Far East.

Several modifications characterize an extended Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra 2016 opening season, which commences January 29 and continues after the Easter break, running through mid-April. 

Isaac Hernandez, the 25-year-old lead principal at the English National Ballet, returns to Guadalajara in July for what promises to be a highly charged homecoming.