(Des)Encaracolarse (Rental)

Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 2 pm (Des)Encaracolarse uses flamenco to explore the myriad metaphors contained in a seashell. The world-class artists and performers in Alice Blumenfeld’s company journey through the curves and spirals, echoes and reflections that make up the odysseys of shells. The title comes from a word invented by Pablo Neruda to show his obsession with shells. The performance premieres original artwork, choreography, music, and costuming, along with traditional sounds of Spain and Latin American poetry. Blumenfeld’s dancing has been called “sharp and (more…)

Opera Southwest Presents New Year’s with the Opera! (Rental)

7:30 pm New Year’s with the Opera is a fun variety show featuring a quartet of Opera Southwest’s most beloved recent performers, including Alyssa Anderson, Jeffrey Beruan, Matthew Vickers, Sarah Asmar, and the Opera Southwest Chamber Orchestra. With a variety of opera favorites and light classics, there is something for everyone to ring in the New Year. Join us after the performance in the Salón Ortega for a champagne reception to celebrate 2017! $45, $55, $65: After Party an additional $45 “NOTE: If you do not see the (more…)

Opera Southwest Presents Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (Rental)

March 26, 29 & 31 and April 2, 2017 2 pm—Sundays 7:30 pm—Wednesday & Friday Pagliacci is a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles and presented in two acts with one intermission. The original ripped-from-the-headlines true crime story, Pagliacci is the tragic tale of a traveling troupe torn apart by passion, jealousy, and rage. Experience Leoncavallo’s heartbreaking story of Canio, the clown who weeps through his white powder makeup over his wife’s unforgivable betrayal. $15, $25, $35, $55, $65, $75, $80, (more…)

Opera Southwest Presents Rossini’s Tancredi (Rental)

October 23, 26, 28 & 30, 2016 2 pm—Sundays 7:30 pm—Wednesday & Friday Rossini’s Tancredi is a fully-staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles and presented in two acts with one intermission. This will be the New Mexico premiere of Rossini’s little-known masterwork. Set against the exotic backdrop of war, intrigue, and conquest in medieval Sicily, Tancredi follows the romance between the exiled soldier Tancredi and the beautiful Amenaide. When Amenaide is sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit, a disguised (more…)

Film: Los albañiles/The Bricklayers

7 pm When a watchman is found murdered on a construction side, the investigation swiftly expands to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Directed by Jorge Fons; based on the novel by Vicente Leñero. Presented in partnership with Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque and Instituto Cervantes as part of the series “Literatura en el Cine Mexicano.” 1976; Spanish with English subtitles; 122 minutes; not rated. Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before show

Film: Pedro Páramo

7 pm This allegorical story, based on a son’s search for his father in the chaotic times of the Mexican Revolution and his travel to a literal ghost town, has been called “the biggest Mexican film ever made.” Directed by Carlos Velo; based on the novel by Juan Rulfo, similarly acclaimed by the novelist Jorge Luis Borges as “one of the greatest texts written in any language.” Presented in partnership with Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque and Instituto Cervantes as part of the series “Literatura en el Cine (more…)

Film: La Rosa Blanca

7 pm In this dramatization of the struggle for control over Mexico’s oil resources in the 1920s, the lives of an Indian landowner and those around him are destroyed by the ruthless owner of a U.S. oil company. Directed by Roberto Gavaldón; based on the novel by B. Traven. Presented in partnership with Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque and Instituto Cervantes as part of the series “Literatura en el Cine Mexicano.” 1961; Spanish with English subtitles; 105 minutes; not rated. Free ticketed event; tickets available one hour before (more…)

Film: Doña Bárbara

7 pm A powerful and ruthless landowner on the Venezuelan plains, hardened by a brutal gang rape and the murder of her first love, finds herself attracted to a man whom she still seeks to ruin. Directed by Fernando de Fuentes & Miguel M. Delgado; based on the novel by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Presented in partnership with Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque and Instituto Cervantes as part of the series “Literatura en el Cine Mexicano.” 1943; Spanish with English subtitles; 125 minutes; (more…)

ABQ Latin Dance Festival 2016: Sunday Night Wrap-Up Party

7 pm to 11 pm Wrap up the 2016 Albuquerque Latin Dance Festival at the NHCC with a final evening of music and dance, featuring DJ Pancho, in the intimate atmosphere of the Center’s Fountain Courtyard. Presented in partnership with Guanábana Productions. $15

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