Women of my generation and younger have many rights and opportunities available to us that previous generations of women simply did not have. We risk taking for granted the relative ease with which we move in the world, and we might forget that trailblazers before us had to push against the current to attain the... 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 →
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 →
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