Theatre

Opera Southwest: La Traviata

October 24, 27, 29 & 31, 2021 Sundays at 2 pm, Wednesday and Friday at 7:30 pm Verdi’s La Traviata is a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles.  Presented in three acts with one intermission. One of the most famous of the great classic operas, Verdi’s La Traviata is a sweeping love story set against the backdrop of decadent Paris high society where the celebrated courtesan Violetta eschews her wealthy suitors for the simple life with poor Alfredo. $21, $41, $62, $83, $103 with discounts for groups of 8 or more, anyone 30 years old or younger, (more…)

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Pat Metheny Side Eye

7:30 pm The New Mexico Jazz Festival presents Pat Metheny Side Eye with James Francies and Joe Dyson. Composer and guitar icon Pat Metheny has announced over 100 concerts world-wide to accompany the release of Side-Eye— returning to the road this fall and spanning well into 2022. As on the recording, the live version of Side-Eye will feature the phenomenally talented pianist/organist/keyboardist James Francies. The drum chair in Side-Eye has been filled to date by some of the most electrifying players around, including Eric Harland, Anwar Marshall, and, most notably, Marcus Gilmore,

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Film Screening: Reasons

7 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday The Sandia Performing Arts Company (SPAC) presents the film version of their recent production of Reasons.  Directed by Ruben Muller, Reasons is the dark and disturbing story of Elvino Luis Mulares, a Mexican American World War II Army veteran who survived the war but still carries the psychological scars, spanning a 40-year period of his life as an alcoholic with a growing family in mid-century New Mexico. Mulares, the narrator of his story, has now died, and begins speaking to an

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Dance Auditions: Carnaval 2022

11 am Albuquerque’s CARNAVAL 2022 at the NHCC’s Roy E Disney Center for Performing Arts is scheduled for February 25th & 26th, 2022. The Odara Dance Ensemble will be holding audition Saturday, August 21st starting at 11 am at the NHCC’s PNM Rehearsal Hall . Be prepared to audition to various styles of dance, including cultural elements of Cuba, Trinidad, Brazil, and New Orleans. Carnaval, the festive season occurring before Lent in many countries, is one of the world’s most widespread celebrations and one of its biggest

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Emporium & JAW Present Tommy Emmanuel

8 pm (doors open at 7 pm) $43, no discounts “Songs are our teachers. They show us the depth of the human race and its unrelenting desire to create.”—Tommy Emmanuel Any time you talk to any of Tommy Emmanuel’s fans, whether musicians or audience members, invariably they will speak of not one but two qualities that define his greatness. The first, predictably, is his extraordinary guitar playing.  Tommy is considered by those in the know to be among this planet’s greatest guitarists, and his playing is simply

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Disney’s Moana JR.

7 pm Friday & Saturday 2 pm Sunday $10, $12, $15 w/ $2 discount for seniors & children 12 and under Disney’s Moana JR. is a 60-minute musical adaptation of the 2016 Disney animated film, bringing the adventures of Moana and her village of Motunui to life onstage. The production features all the beloved songs from the film, written by Tony®, GRAMMY, Emmy, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, Opetaia Foa’i, and Mark Mancina, and including “How Far I’ll Go,” “Shiny,” and “You’re Welcome.”

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Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra

8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE In her 2021 documentary El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra, Tamara García Iglesias traces the life and work of Alicia D’Amico, following her artistic trajectory through Buenos Aires, Paris, and Geneva in search of “shadows” of her presence. One of the best-known photographers of her time, D’Amico worked from the late 1950s until her death in Buenos Aires in 2001. She was recognized as a feminist and lesbian pioneer, and in her later, less

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Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Alma

8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Alma, the protagonist of Santiago León Cuéllar’s 2018 film of the same name, has just entered a new high school, and her classmate Victor invites her to a party. The ongoing changes in her body, and her hidden desires, lead her to face her inner fears and begin the process of self-acceptance—loving herself as she is. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 17 minutes; not rated. Free community event

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Film: Te estoy amando locamente, LGTBI+ Short Film Series: Snap

8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Snap, a 2018 documentary by Chilean filmmakers Felipe Elgueta and Ananké Pereira, is the most experimental film in this series—composed through fragments of the audiovisual content of social media, and offering a mosaic of individual reflections on sexual and gender identity. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not rated. Free community event

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