Summertime offers an excellent opportunity to attend concerts and music festivals that fall outside the regular programming of local performing arts companies. My friends Ruth and Jolene asked if I would like to join them in attending Il Divo's concert at Eccles Theater last Thursday evening. I jumped at the chance to do so because... Continue Reading →
My friend Mony and I saw The Nutty Professor, A New Musical at Hale Centre Theatre last weekend, and we absolutely loved it! Rupert Holmes and Marvin Hamlisch's musical brings Jerry Lewis's 1963 movie to the stage. Some theater-goers may also be familiar with Eddie Murphy's 1996 remake of the movie. The movies and musical... Continue Reading →
My friend Mony has generously given me tickets to several Hale Centre Theatre productions this season, the first of which was May We All in April, and more recently, we saw The Time Machine, playing on the Sorensen Legacy Jewel Box Stage. I was unfamiliar with the premise of The Time Machine before seeing it,... Continue Reading →
The Utah Symphony concluded its regular season this past weekend with a program featuring three contemporary works: Fanfare Ritmico by Jennifer Higdon, Fandango by Arturo Márquez, and Symphony No. 3 by Aaron Copland. Guest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and violinist Anne Akiko Meyers joined the symphony for these concerts. I attended Friday evening's performance, and I... Continue Reading →
Photographs convey thousands of thoughts and emotions. I compiled my best images showcasing Abravanel Hall's beauty. https://thegoodlifeslc.wordpress.com/2024/05/23/utah-symphony-scheherazade/?theme_preview=true&iframe=true&frame-nonce=3489f4c4bb&calypso_token=8ef3251c-8b64-45b4-9903-f284655aeac7?page_id=1123
Life became busy and took me in several different directions, keeping me from writing about the performing arts events I was attending. I am happy to be back writing about The Good Life, so let's jump in! I decided on a whim to attend Saturday evening's Utah Symphony concert, featuring two composers' interpretations of Scheherazade.... Continue Reading →
A love-struck young nobleman in multiple disguises. A controlling older man desiring to marry the young woman in his care. A cunning barber inventing schemes. A captivating young woman at the center of it all. Mix those details together, and you have Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville. My friend Heather and I went to... Continue Reading →
Ballet West delivered an outstanding performance of Swan Lake on its opening night, Friday, February 9, 2024. Swan Lake is an inherently beautiful ballet as it depicts a classic fairy-tale set to Tchaikovsky's music, and Ballet West's dancers, orchestra, costume designers, and set designers created a particularly magical rendition that enchanted me from beginning to... Continue Reading →
I went to The Met: Live in HD broadcast of Bizet's Carmen at a local Cinemark theater recently. The Metropolitan Opera transmits select live performances in high definition via satellite from its opera house in New York City to movie theaters in the United States and around the world. Promotional photos and video clips for... Continue Reading →
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Utah Opera is currently staging Rachel Portman and Nicholas Wright's The Little Prince, having debuted this opera in January of 2019. I was fortunate to see and fall in love with the debut production,... Continue Reading →
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