Performing Arts
Rising Appalachia
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:30 pm As world travelers for nearly two decades, Rising Appalachia have merged multiple global music influences with their own southern roots to create inviting new folk music. Founded by sisters Leah and Chloe Smith, the band has established an international fan base due to relentless touring, tireless activism, and no small degree of stubborn independence. “Rising Appalachia has come out of this idea that we can take these traditions of southern music – that we’ve been born and raised with – and we can rise out (more...)
Film: Un hombre llamado Flor de Otoño
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Set in the 1920s, Pedro Olea’s Un hombre llamado Flor de Otoño introduces one of the first homosexual characters in Spanish cinema, in an award-winning performance by José Sacristán. Lluís de Serracant is a young lawyer from a bourgeois Catalan family who leads a surprising double life: during the day, he practices his legal profession, and at night he transforms himself into Flor de Otoño, a well-known transvestite who performs in a small cabaret in Barcelona. (more...)
Film: El muerto y ser feliz
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here On the top floor of a Buenos Aires hospital, an aging Spanish hitman who has spent half his life in Argentina realizes that he is dying. Escaping with a supply of morphine, he sets out on a journey north to nowhere, accompanied by a girl whom he meets on the road. Javier Rebollo’s dark comedy El muerto y ser feliz is the vehicle for one of José Sacristán’s most riveting performances. 2012; Spanish with English subtitles; (more...)
Opera Southwest: Frida
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NMFebruary 18 19, & 20, 2022 Friday at 7:30 pm, Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm Sunday, February 20th are SOLD OUT! Presented by Opera Southwest and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Frida is a lively celebration of one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. Based on the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, it is a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Spanish with both Spanish and English translation supertitles, and presented in two acts with one intermission. The music of composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez bridges the gap (more...)
Film: Un lugar en el mundo
12 pm (available for 48 hours( Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Adolfo Aristarain’s Un lugar en el mundo follows the experiences of adolescent Ernesto and his parents, who, after years of exile during Argentina’s “Dirty War,” have moved to a small village in a remote valley to put their ideals into practice running a school, wool cooperative, and clinic. When a Spanish geologist arrives to survey the land for the local patrón and see if it can be dammed for hydroelectric power—a threat to the locals’ way (more...)
Carnaval 2022: Queenie, Queen of Carnaval
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:30 pm Carnaval, the festive season occurring before Lent in many countries, including Latin American and Caribbean nations as well as parts of the United States, is one of the world’s most widespread celebrations and one of its biggest parties. Carnaval was first celebrated at the NHCC in 2002 and has been part of the Center’s regular seasonal programming since 2006, with regular performances by presenting partners Frank Leto & PANdemonium and Pilar Leto & the Odara Dance Ensemble. Carnaval 2022 marks the NHCC’s 16th annual Carnaval Celebration—a (more...)
Film: Bajo el silencio
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Iñaki Arteta’s Bajo el silencio, a young journalist travels to the Basque Country to interview past members of the ultra-nationalist terrorist group ETA and their ideological allies, to listen to their explanations of their actions, and to find out what mark this history has left on the region following the cessation of the armed struggle in 2011. 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 153 minutes; rated PG-13. free community event In March, Instituto Cervantes initiates a (more...)
Film: Silvia
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here María Silvia Esteve’s Silvia attempts to make sense of a personal history steeped in violence and denial, experimenting with blurred images of the Argentine filmmaker’s parents and the inconsistent memories of her sisters. It is a portrait of the bond between a mother and her daughters, and a revelation of unspoken words that find new meanings beyond pain. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 103 minutes; not rated. Free community event In March, Instituto Cervantes initiates a (more...)
Film: Hija de la laguna
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Ernesto Cabellos’ Hija de la laguna, a young campesina in the Andes struggles to defend the lagoon that she considers her mother against South America’s largest gold mining company. Just under the lagoons of the Peruvian region of Cajamarca are rich deposits of gold, pitting farmers who fear that they will run out of water against large corporations seeking to exploit these natural resources. 2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 87 minutes; not rated. Free community (more...)
Opera Southwest: Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NMMarch 20, 25 & 27, 2022 Sundays at 2 pm, Friday at 7:30 pm Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in French with English translation supertitles. Presented in two acts with one intermission. Created in 1902, Debussy's masterpiece never ceases to fascinate with its uniqueness, its symbolist universe, and its unparalleled musical and poetic approach to the French language. $21, $41, $62, $83, $103 with discounts for Groups of 8 or more, any one 30 years old and younger and Opera for All with a WIC or EBT card. (more...)