Performing Arts
New Mexico Philharmonic: Rhapsody in Blue
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM2:00 – 4:00 pm New Mexico Philharmonic presents Rhapsody in Blue Na’Zir McFadden, Conductor Sydney Tasker, cello Kate Shao, piano Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in a minor Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Just over 100 years ago, George Gershwin composed a concerto for jazz orchestra, and the result redefined American music. Take in his Rhapsody in Blue, performed by Kate Shao, first-place winner in the piano division of this year’s Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition. The youthful vigor continues with cellist (more...)
Festival Ballet Albuquerque: Sacred Journeys V
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm Friday & Saturday, 2:00 pm Sunday NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre Festival Ballet Albuquerque presents Sacred Journeys V featuring Robert Mirabal. Classical and contemporary dance combine with the eclectic music of two-time Grammy award-winning Taos Pueblo musician Robert Mirabal in this reflection of New Mexican cultures through dance, music, and spoken word. Mirabal collaborates with Festival Ballet Albuquerque’s artistic director Patricia Dickinson Wells and with internationally renowned New York City Ballet dancer Jock Soto, of Navajo and Puerto Rican descent. Soto, who is originally from (more...)
Opera Southwest: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NMOctober 27 & 30, | November 1 & 3 2:00 pm Sundays, 7:30 pm Wednesday & Friday Opera Southwest presents Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. For over a century, the tragic tale of a geisha’s love, steadfastness, and heartbreak has been enchanting audiences around the world. Today, Giacomo Puccini’s soaring music continues to enrapture- no matter how many times you may have heard it. Although Madama Butterfly is best known for its exquisite arias for sopranos, the long, wondrously varied love duet that ends Act I is considered his (more...)
Liberation Music of the Americas
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7:30 - 9:00 pm This event has been moved to the NHCC's Bank of America Theatre to accommodate a larger audience. Join us for a night of Música y Platíca con Lasotras, a musical collective from Albuquerque with roots all over the Americas, moderated by Enrique Cardiel. This event, sponsored by Radical Harmonies, a Mellon Foundation Grantee, is the third in a series of events, offers inspirational spaces for exploration, dialogue, and the convergence of thought and action. As an intellectual expression and creative output, music can (more...)
Voces de Latinidad: An Original Documentary Film
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM6:00 pm: Refreshments and Music 6:30 pm: Film Screening 7:00 pm: Panel Discussion NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre Voces de Latinidad: An Original Documentary Film. Celebrating the Richness of Hispanic Identity. Voces de Latinidad, has united members of our community and explored the diversity and complexity of the many cultural aspects that shape Hispanic, Mestizo, Latino/a/e, Chicano/a, Indígena/o identity and lived experiences in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, area. This is the documentary film that shows a community in the process of engaging with identity and history in (more...)
New Mexico Philharmonic: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM2:00 pm – 4:00 pm New Mexico Philharmonic presents Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons Cármelo de los Santos, conductor & soloist Mozart: Symphony No. 29 Vivaldi: The Four Seasons What finer time than the fall to revisit Antonio Vivaldi’s all-time most loved work, The Four Seasons. With the excitement of spring, the storms of summer, autumn’s harvests, and the chill of winter…Vivaldi encompassed an entire year’s worth of life into four miniature concertos. Also on the program is Mozart’s Symphony No. 29, written by the prodigious 18-year-old composer (more...)
National Institute of Flamenco: PLATA: 25 Years of Yjastros
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM8:00 pm Friday 4:00 pm Saturday National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present PLATA: 25 Years of Yjastros PLATA is a thrilling, full-length work by Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company. Celebrating 25 incredible years of this powerhouse company, PLATA features a return to the stunning flamenco repertory format that has delighted audiences for decades. The concert features choreographies by Artistic Director Joaquín Encinias, visiting guest artist and dancer Ricardo Moro, (Madrid), Yjastros’ own Carlos Menchaca, and past international collaborators, Carmen Coy (Murcia), Jesús Perona (Málaga), (more...)
Diwali Festival of Lights 2024
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM5:00 pm NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre The INDIA Association of New Mexico presents the Diwali Festival of Lights 2024. Diwali is one of India's biggest Hindu festivals, celebrated with great enthusiasm and happiness. The festival lasts five continuous days, and the third day is celebrated as the main Diwali festival or ‘Festival of Lights.' Different colorful varieties of fireworks are always associated with this festival. On this auspicious day, people light up diyas and candles all around their house. They perform Laxmi Puja in the evening (more...)
Living Purgatory: A Staged Reading
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NMThank you for your intrest in our free community event, a reading of “Living Purgatory” an original play written by Patricia Crespin. This production is directed by Alicia Lueras Maldonado and currently Sold Out. 6:30 pm NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium Join us for an original play written by Patricia Crespín and directed by Alicia Lueras Maldonado! Frida Kahlo, Lupe Vélez, La Llorona, and Malinche will do anything to escape their eternal limbo and get a second chance at redemption. So when Denise and her baby, Allegra, (more...)
Handel’s Messiah en Español. Presented by Opera Southwest and the New Mexico Symphonic Chorus
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM6:30 pm Experience Handel’s Messiah” like never before! The New Mexico Symphonic Chorus is proud to present this timeless masterpiece with a twist: just as Opera Southwest did with Carmen, Messiah will be performed in a stunning Spanish translation – Mesías, using the Mario Montenegro translation of the Messiah. Immerse yourself in the transcendent beauty of Handel’s majestic melodies and moving choruses, now brought to life in the rich and emotive Spanish language using the Mario Montenegro translation of the “Messiah.” From the electrifying “Aleluya” chorus to (more...)