by Magdy Zara
With a talented cast, the Teatro Nahual premiered the play “The Horns of My Husband” by the famous French writer Moliere (1668), who with fine humor presents a social critique, where money is more important than morality and dignity: human.
The staging, which includes live music, is directed by Verónica Meza, founder of Teatro Nahual. The play will be staged by renowned actors: Abraham Mijangos, Umbelina Martínez, Luis Nicolás, Victoria Valencia, Alberto Arias, John Cabrera, Grace Grullón and the Guatemalan actress Blanca Salguero (previously known as Blanca Nieto), who is remembered for her performance in the play La Malinche and for having participated in many plays and several Mexican films among other performances.
The Nahual theater has been founded for 20 years and is the only Spanish-speaking theater in San Francisco, and for this occasion it will present this play, a theatrical adaptation in which “Jorge,” a rich peasant, seeks to raise his social status by marrying the beautiful daughter of Messrs. Sostenes de Varilla, economically ruined bourgeois, who despite their poverty refuse to accept their new reality. They pretend to belong to the high society of the town in which they live, and they despise their son-in-law Jorge for his humble origins and for not being on par with his daughter Angelica.
The play focuses on Jorge, who admits to being a cuckold, but his own wisdom does not help him to unmask his wife who cunningly reverses any evidence of infidelity against Jorge Dandín.
The premiere took place on Saturday, Oct. 14, at the Center for the Performing Arts, Second Stage, 500 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041.
Tickets: mvcpa.com or by calling 650 903 6000
Functions at MACLA, 501 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113:
Saturday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 22 at 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Ticket sales at the theater door. Reserve your ticket in advance: www.teatronahual.org
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in Mountain View.
Visions of Guadalupe: Image and Sound
As a tribute to Chicana artist Yolanda López, the Voces de Silicon Valley choir will present Visions of Guadalupe: Image and Sound, to highlight the artistic achievements and lifelong activism of said artist.
The performance will include the world premiere of a new original five-part composition for instruments and voices by artistic director Dr. Cyril Deaconoff, which has been titled Visions of Guadalupe.
The piece is inspired by the words of a beautiful 17th-century poem by the Mexican writer, composer and visionary Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, whose work was surprisingly brave for the time, affirming women’s rights and gender equality. Aiming to reflect on the connections between music, art and images, the program will also include short pieces by well-known composers Kaija Saariaho, Pamela Z and Flannery Cunningham.
The presentation of Visiones de Guadalupe will take place on Sunday, Oct. 22, at the Mission Cultural Center for Latina Arts in San Francisco, tickets start at $15.
Momotombo SF presents itself in Sausalito Seahorse
To spend a different night, full of good music, Sausalito Seahorse presents Momotombo SF, a group that is made up of former members of the Malo and Santana bands.
Momotombo SF is renowned for its exciting interplay of Latin jazz and rock, driven by Latin rhythms and Afro-Cuban rhythms, creating a powerful and authentic Latin rock sound straight from the adventurous and psychedelic days of Winterland and The Fillmore.
The presentation will be this Saturday, Oct. 21, starting at 8 p.m., general admission costs $25, to purchase tickets through https://sausalitoseahorse.ticketleap.com/momotombo-sf
Works by Latin artists accompany the SF Symphony Orchestra
Mexican artists Liz Hernández (painter and sculptor) and Fernando Escartiz (sculptor) will present their works during the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra concert.
For the months of October and November, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, together with the San Francisco Symphony Choir, have scheduled a series of concerts called The Planets and The Illuminations.
Elim Chan, chief conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations, featuring tenor Andrew Staples in his Orchestral Series debut. The work features texts from Arthur Rimbaud’s poetry collection of the same name and is a rare foray into the French language for a composer celebrated for his contributions to English music.
The program includes an exhibition of paintings by Modest Mussorgsky, in homage to the artwork of Viktor Hartmann. Each of the ten movements is based on a different work by Hartmann. Inspired by images from an exhibition, newly commissioned artworks by Bay Area artists Liz Hernández and Fernando Escartiz (both Mexican) will be displayed in the lobby of Davies Symphony Hall and on screen during the concert. Before the presentation of the piece, a short video will be shown that will include an interview with the artists about how they found inspiration in paintings in an exhibition.
On Thursday, Oct. 26 at 6:30 p.m., attendees can arrive early for a space-themed pre-concert discussion with special guest Bing Quock, deputy director of the California Academy of Sciences’ Morrison Planetarium, which will be held on stage at Davies Symphony Hall. one hour before the concert. (Free for all concert ticket holders).
An open rehearsal will take place on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 10 a.m., while performances on Oct. 26, 27 and 28 will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets for concerts at Davies Symphony Hall can be purchased through sfsymphony.org or by calling the San Francisco Symphony Box Office at 415.864.6000.
Davies Symphony Hall is located at 201 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.
