Violeta News

The multi-talented singer, songwriter, producer, and cellist, Dom La Nena's new album, Tempo, is about time.

BEDLAM has announced BEDLAM: THE SERIES, an episodic New Media Series now in development. Written by Eric Tucker and Musa Gurnis and directed by Eric Tucker, BEDLAM: THE SERIES is an inventive and irreverent Shakespeare mashup that twists together characters and plots from King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice and other plays.

Film at Lincoln Center announces Currents for the 58th New York Film Festival (September 17 – October 11).

Film at Lincoln Center announces the 25 films that comprise the Main Slate of the 58th New York Film Festival, September 17 - October 11.

Audiences can mark the 51st anniversary of the U.S. landing on the moon July 20 when Hammer Theatre Center and One Year Lease Theater Company (OYL) partner for a special presentation of Pieces of the Moon, a timely and compelling new play by Nick Flint adapted for radio, making its World Premiere via live stream.

Latonia Moore recently talked with OperaWire about her experiences as a black woman in the opera industry. She talked about playing the role of Aida, as well as times when her skin has been painted different colors, and why that doesn't bother her.

Teatro Colón lowers its curtain for only the second time in its century of existence, reports The Buenos Aires Times. Although quarantine has been in place in Argentina since March 20, the theater shutdown a week prior, right before dress rehearsals were to take place for the Verdi opera 'Nabucco.'

Film at Lincoln Center announced today that the 58th New York Film Festival (NYFF), taking place from September 25th through October 11th, will feature changes to the festival's programming structure and new selection committee and advisory roles. The festival is also exploring a combination of both in-person and digital experiences, as circumstances allow.

Le Butcherettes just released their new EP, 'DON'T BLEED' a week ago and have already received rave reviews from media worldwide.  Today the band announced they will join Chicano Batman on their North American tour and have added some headlining dates throughout the U.S. in support of their new EP, plus release new video today for 'DON'T BLEED, YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOREST'. (Complete Tour Dates Below)

GINGER THATCHER, former principal dancer of the Cleveland Ballet, will be a guest teacher from March 23-27, 2020, and VIOLETA ANGELOVA, former principal dancer of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, will be a guest teacher from July 20-August 1, 2020 at the Goh Ballet Academy. Ms. Thatcher will be a guest teacher for the New a?" Spring Performance Workshop, and Ms. Angelova will be a member of the faculty for the International Summer Intensive.

On Friday, February 7, Guitar Mash and the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment will bring an audience as diverse as Queens itself to 'mash' with some of the music industry's most acclaimed guitarists and singer/songwriters when Flushing Town Hall hosts the first-ever NYC Urban Campfire: QUEENS.

Amazon today announced it has green-lit four new local original series from Argentina, Chile and Colombia, marking the first-ever locally produced Amazon Originals to launch in these countries that will also be available exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

Bristol Riverside Theatre continues its 33rd anniversary season by partnering with the renowned Bedlam Theatre, out of New York City, to present a modern look at a classic Shakespearean tragedy. Bedlam has a reputation for new, fresh, active environment storytelling that creates a kinetic experience of shared empathy. Lead by Bedlam's Artistic Director Eric Tucker, Bedlam brings its six-woman interpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear to the Philadelphia region and Bucks County. This exciting collaboration represents the first time Bristol Riverside Theatre has presented another theatre company on its stage.

La Coordinación Nacional de Teatro del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) deslinda de toda posibilidad de actos de corrupción a quienes fungieron como jurados de la Convocatoria de Teatro para Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes. Igualmente, establece que el proceso de dictaminación se realizó con toda pertinencia jurídica, al mismo tiempo que se ha cuidado el ambiente de respeto que toda persona merece en un diálogo en el que, por supuesto, es posible la discrepancia.

Oklahoma dancer, Gabrielle Hamilton wins a Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer!

Solidario con un recinto que le ha acompañado a lo largo de su historia, el 47 Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC) celebrará también, junto con cinco países, el 85 aniversario del Palacio de Bellas Artes, con espectáculos internacionales que conjugan la calidad y la excelencia, la cultura y el arte de tres continentes.

Con el aplauso y el reconocimiento del público, este viernes por la noche en el Palacio de Bellas Artes la Compañía Nacional de Ópera (CNO) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) inició las presentaciones de la ópera La Fanciulla del West, de Giacomo Puccini, en una puesta en escena, escenografía e iluminación de Sergio Vela y la dirección concertadora del italiano Marcello Mottadelli al frente de la Orquesta y Coro del Teatro de Bellas Artes.

Inaugurado el 20 de septiembre de 1964, el Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) celebra más de medio siglo de resguardar las obras más destacadas del arte mexicano. El público podrá ver reunidos el emblemático cuadro de Las dos Fridas, piezas surrealistas de los acervos de Remedios Varo e imágenes de Manuel Álvarez Bravo, además de óleos de los llamados Tres grandes: Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros y José Clemente Orozco, así como notables piezas de arte abstracto y obras del recién fallecido maestro oaxaqueño Francisco Toledo, entre otros.

Creado para exponer lo mejor de las artes a nivel mundial, desde su inauguración el 29 de septiembre de 1934 con la Orquesta Sinfónica de México y un coro de mil voces dirigido por Carlos Chávez, además de la puesta en escena de La verdad sospechosa, de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, el Palacio de Bellas Artes conmemorará su 85 aniversario con grupos y artistas nacionales e internacionales.

The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City's premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, announced today that Obie and Bessie Award winner Justin Vivian Bond, hailed by The New Yorker as “the best cabaret artist of their generation,' will host the 2019 awards ceremony. The performers and award presenters were also revealed.