The Yucatán Symphony Orchestra kicks off its 45th season this month with an ambitious lineup.
The upcoming season of the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra features a variety of musical performances and celebrates the 150th birthday of composer Maurice Ravel. Beyond his famous Bolero, which revolutionized the art of orchestration, Ravel wrote impressive works like the ballet Daphnis et Chloé, full of rhythm and new sonic colors, Le Tombeau de Couperin, and…
The first step will likely be to open the theater’s lobby, where cultural activities such as art shows have often been held.
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.
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…
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 state symphony orchestra will perform the remainder of its September-December program at the Palacio de la Música.
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…
The youth symphony plans to hold six concerts between September and November in Mérida’s Palacio de la Música.
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…
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…
Love, jealousy and revenge are laid bare in “Cavalleria Rusticana,” the opera that closes the January – June 2019 Yucatan Symphony Orchestra season.
The warm, velvety sounds of a contrabassoon joins the brass, woodwinds and strings heard this season at the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra.
Guest directors from Poland, Portugal and Brazil are included in the 2018’s second OSY concert program.
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.
When Juan José Pastor appears on stage this weekend, he might be grabbing his French horn a little more tightly.
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.
Anna Miernik is returning to Yucatán, and this time she’s on stage.
“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.
Hacienda Xcanatún was a working plantation, not a lush spa and restaurant, when Pergolesi wrote his comic opera buffo, “La Serva Padrona,” in 1730.
With a selection of masterpieces from composers such as Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Revueltas, the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra announced its XXIX concert season program.
The world-famous mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča, visiting Mérida for the first time, is having a love affair with Mexico.
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.
Halfway through its fall 2017 season, the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra (OSY) remains “the best-kept secret of Mexico.”
That’s all for now
That’s all for now