The four members of the Karabakh orchestra are descendants of the recently liberated Nargorno-Karabakh segment of Azerbaijan that was occupied by Armenia in blatant violation of international law for nearly three decades
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Founded in 2002, the Midi Company has performed in both Mexico and France, as well as in Spain, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, China, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, French Guyana and Reunion Island
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) is slated to host a four-day wooden puppet festival from Thursday, Aug. 25, through Sunday, Aug. 28. The annual festival, titled Wooden Hearts and now in its second year, will showcase four plays using puppets by the Teatrapos puppet company. On Thursday, Aug, 25, at 8 p.m., the group will
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) opened a monthlong symposium of Japanese-Mexican art on Saturday, Aug. 20. The multidisciplinary symposium, which is set to run through Sunday, Oct. 2, includes presentations of Japanese theater, music, cinema, visual arts and a video art installation, as well as the first International Colloquium of Art and Culture Studies Ibero
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) is slated to present “Imaginary Opera, and Ballet Too,” an comic interpretation of operatic works and classical dance aimed at children, thorough the month of July. The series, which will be performed in Cenart’s Theater of the Arts, will open with a work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart adapted to Spanish,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Back in 1936, German composer Carl Orff cobbled together a collection of 24 profane medieval poems and set them to music to create an original cantata which he called “Carmina Burana.” His impelling composition quickly became popular and a staple piece of Germany’s classical music repertoire. Over the years, “O Fortuna,” the opening and closing movement of
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart), a subsidiary of Mexico City’s Culture Secretariat, will presents the “Concierto ‘900,” a four-handed piano concert performed by the renowned Italian duo Eleonora Spina and Michele Benignetti, on Wednesday, June 22, at 8 p.m., in the Blas Galindo Auditorium. The Spina-Benignetti Duo was created in 2013 and has been recognized
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The renowned Sonora-based Cardenchado Choir is slated to perform a one-night-only concert at Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart), a subsidiary of the Culture Secretariat, on Thursday, June 9. The concert will consist of a combination of improvisations and contemporary arrangements to some of the choir’s traditional repertoire. Under the artistic direction of Juan Pablo Villa,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican soprano singer María Reyna will offer an operatic concert dedicated to the indigenous Mixe people, who live in the eastern highlands of the central state of Oaxaca, in a one-night performance at the National Center for the Arts (Cenart) on Saturday, May 21. The concert, titled “Orgullosa Soy Raíz” (“I am Proud of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart), a subsidiary of the country’s Culture Secretariat, premiered on Thursday, April 28, an abstract, multimedia production of “The Szechuan School of Human Pain,” a powerful play based on the novel with the same name by Mexican-Peruvian author Mario Bellatin. Set in imperial China, the play, which includes
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