Arts & Entertainment

Those who get a kick out of sitting in churches and listening to the vibrant sound of organ music have a treat in store over the coming month.  In a bid to try and promote the love of this genre, the Domingo Lobato Association has organized a festival at various Guadalajara churches, featuring some of Mexico’s most accomplished organists. 

The Guadalajara Youth Orchestra (Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Guadalajara) celebrates its tenth anniversary later this month with a gala concert at the regal Degollado Theater.  Works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Revueltas will be included in the program.

A whimsical, biographical exhibition at the Museo de Arte Raul Anguiano in Guadalajara spotlights both the books and artwork of the renowned Mexican writer Fernando del Paso.

Les Pêcheurs dPerles 

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. The opera returns to the Met stage for the first time in 100 years. 

More than 45,000 visitors have seen the acclaimed Charles Darwin exhibit at Guadalajara’s Trompo Magico children’s museum since it opened at the beginning of November.

A  massive, eye-catching three-ton statue of an inclined head by Michoacan artist Javier Marin was unveiled late last week outside the entrance to the Museo de los Artes (MUSA) on Avenida Juarez.