New Photos Show Little Progress at Peón Contreras
The first step will likely be to open the theater’s lobby, where cultural activities such as art shows have often been held.
Curtain rising on a more Yucatecan Yucatán Symphony Orchestra
These changes include a shift in musical programs to include more Yucatecan, Mexican and female composers, as well as the use of non-traditional venues.
The Yucatan Symphony Orchestra struggles to pay its musicians
Since 2021, the Yucatán state government has reneged on an agreement to cover the symphony orchestra’s payroll. This only compounds its fight for survival under the government’s austerity measures. Unlike its peers across Mexico, the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra is struggling to get the state to fulfill its obligation to fund its relatively meager budget. The…
Yucatán’s symphonic orchestra first violinist Leonel Armenta dies
The death of first violinist, Leonel Armenta, has shaken the OSY after what has already been an terrible month for the state symphony.
Yucatán’s symphony moves to a new venue for the rest of the season
Yucatán’s state symphony orchestra will perform the remainder of its September-December program at the Palacio de la Música.
Can the symphony return to the Peón Contreras ‘before spring’?
Mérida Mayor Renán Barrera Concha said authorities are aiming for the Teatro José Peon Contreras to reopen its doors “before spring.” The famed opera house — Yucatán’s most prominent performance space — was badly damaged in a fire last week. In a radio interview, the mayor shared more detail on the fire’s cause. The blaze…
Yucatán’s Youth Symphonic Band prepares comeback with renewed energy
The youth symphony plans to hold six concerts between September and November in Mérida’s Palacio de la Música.
Online petitions urge support for Yucatan Symphony and the MACAY
Two venerable Yucatán cultural institutions — The Fernando García Ponce-MACAY Museum and the Yucatán Symphony, or OSY — are the subject of change.org petitions asking for public support. The petitions don’t ask for money, just a signature to tell politicians to support art and music in Yucatán. But the petitions come as austerity programs mean public…
Bellas Artes dance company to conclude Yucatan Symphony’s upcoming season
A first-time visit from the National Dance Company will conclude the Yucatan Symphony Orchestra’s fall-winter season. Eleven programs start Sept. 6. For a season finale, the Christmastime favorite, “The Nutcracker” will be performed by the Compañía Nacional de Danza del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. The head of the OSY, Juan Carlos Lomónaco told La…
Yucatan Symphony season concludes with the beauty and drama of an Italian opera
Love, jealousy and revenge are laid bare in “Cavalleria Rusticana,” the opera that closes the January – June 2019 Yucatan Symphony Orchestra season.
Yucatán Symphony debuts the warm sounds of the contrabassoon
The warm, velvety sounds of a contrabassoon joins the brass, woodwinds and strings heard this season at the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra.
The Yucatán Symphony Orchestra opens new season with Carlos Prieto
Guest directors from Poland, Portugal and Brazil are included in the 2018’s second OSY concert program.
OSY tackles Bruckner for final symphony concert of season
For the penultimate 2017-18 program — and the final symphonic concert — musicians at the Peón Contreras are tackling their most ambitious work of the season.
Stolen French horn recovered in time for OSY concerts
When Juan José Pastor appears on stage this weekend, he might be grabbing his French horn a little more tightly.
Triple Beethoven concert at Yucatán Symphony Orchestra
A presentation by soloists Iliana Stefanova on violin, Veselin Dechev on cello and Irina Decheva on piano, is a highlight of the Symphony Orchestra of Yucatán’s sixth program of Season 29.
Symphony welcomes guest pianist from Poland, Anna Miernik
Anna Miernik is returning to Yucatán, and this time she’s on stage.
Yucatán Symphony’s 3rd program has a touch of brass
“The Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2,” by the 19th-century Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, and the “Concert for Two Trombones,” by Frigyes Hidas, are highlights this weekend at the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra.
1730 opera invites audience to be part of history
Hacienda Xcanatún was a working plantation, not a lush spa and restaurant, when Pergolesi wrote his comic opera buffo, “La Serva Padrona,” in 1730.
Yucatán Symphony begins XXIX season with Russian works
With a selection of masterpieces from composers such as Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Revueltas, the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra announced its XXIX concert season program.
Opera diva Elīna Garanča praises Mérida for its embrace of high culture
The world-famous mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča, visiting Mérida for the first time, is having a love affair with Mexico.
Dallas-Mérida exchange brings flutist LeeAnne Thompson to OSY
Flutist LeeAnne Thompson has come from her Dallas home to be the guest soloist in Sunday’s “Tribute to the Flute” with the Yucatan Symphony Orchestra.
Symphony has grown in prominence over the years
Halfway through its fall 2017 season, the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra (OSY) remains “the best-kept secret of Mexico.”
Next up at the Symphony: A piano virtuoso comes home
Program 2 of the current Symphony season represents a homecoming for a very accomplished pianist.
Symphony asks audience to dress with respect
And any gentlemen who show up to the Symphony in shorts and sandals might blush when they read the back of their ticket.
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