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 →
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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 →
I was delighted to attend the matinée of Ballet West's The Nutcracker on Wednesday, December 27, 2023, the final day of this season's production. Ballet West's co-founder, Willam Christensen, originally choreographed this version of The Nutracker, the first full-length production in the United States, in 1944 during his tenure with the San Francisco Ballet. He... Continue Reading →
Last weekend, the Utah Symphony featured a program of primarily American compositions, a Bach keyboard concerto being the notable exception. Composer and conductor Teddy Abrams (Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra) and pianist Awadagin Pratt joined the Utah Symphony for this performance. I attended Friday night's concert, and I had looked forward to it primarily... Continue Reading →
Ballet West continued its 60th anniversary season with a mixed repertoire program titled Firebird that included three shorter works: Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird, choreographed by Willam Christensen; the world premiere of Fever Dream, composed and choreographed by former Ballet West Demi-Soloist Joshua Whitehead; and George Balanchine's Stars and Stripes, set to music by John Philip... Continue Reading →
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