NEWS ROUNDUP, May 19, 2022 – Addendum Today, May 20, the Public Theater of San Antonio, informed us that the musical, She Loves Me, will not be opening tonight due to COVID-19 cases among the cast and staff. New dates will be announced later. This is a reminder that the coronavirus is still a threat to all of us. We …
Let’s start with theater news this time! The Public Theater of San Antonio is opening a new production of the classic musical, She Loves Me, a charming tale of two co-workers in a perfume shop, “in a European City,” who long for love. The two – Let’s sales clerk, Amalia, and the manager Georg – often squabble at work but …
The Tejano Conjunto Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, as the first and longest-running conjunto fest in the U.S.“…Forty years is an incredible testament to the community’s love for conjunto music.” said Cristina Balli, executive director of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. Indeed. All the best- known artists will perform, including the six-time Grammy Award winner, Flaco Jimenez with …
BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor From start to finish, Opera San Antonio’s production of Verdi’s operatic masterpiece, Rigolleto, was a work of art in every way. Every part of it – scenery, chorus, orchestra, soloists, direction and lighting – contributed to telling the story and letting Verdi’s music do what it’s been doing for the past 170 years – engage, delight …
Opera San Antonio has emerged from the pandemic faze to stage a grand-opera production of Rigoletto, one of the masterpieces of the entire operatic repertoire. It’s a bold and expensive undertaking and we would like to urge readers to support it by attending one of the performances: tonight, Thursday, May 5 or Saturday, May 7. Thanks to the efforts of …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor As with all folktales, the origin of the story of Aladdin and his magical lamp cannot be precisely determined. But this character and his vicissitudes became a part of the famous story collection, One Thousand and One Nights, after the Frenchman, Antoine Galland, heard the tale from a Syrian storyteller named Hanna Diyad. The story appeared …
BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor What better way to inaugurate spring and a return to normal life than by staging one of greatest operatic masterpieces in history – Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto. And that’s exactly what Opera San Antonio has chosen to do. The beloved opera will be staged with a 52-member orchestra in the pit, a 21-member chorus and prominent, nationally …
The poems we are publishing today were not part of the Ekphrastic Poetry Contest. They are a new addition to the ekphrastic poetry project 2022. They were written by three San Antonio poet laureates and the project coordinator Jim LaVilla-Havelin. Enjoy! Carretta WheelBy Octavio Quintanilla (Inspired by Carretta Wheel from a Tejano Freighter, at the Witte Museum I see our …
First, let’s wrap up National Poetry Month San Antonio. Bihl Haus Arts presents Poetry by Veterans April 30 and May 1 at Deco Pizzeria. San Antonio is home to many veterans and some of them are poets who have had the opportunity to refine their skills through Bihl Haus Arts programs. (April 30 at 12-4 p.m.; May 1 at 12-4 …
ARTS ALIVE SAN ANTONIO’s readers will remember our poetry series Life in the Time Of COVID-19 that started with one poem we loved and felt it needed to be published. Over a year, the series grew into an eloquent poetic testimonial of the pandemic time and experience, that became quite popular with our readers. The book features many well-known poets, …
