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Ballet Arizona Announces the Return of Ballet Under the Stars, presented by the Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation
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PHOENIX, Aug. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ Ballet Arizona is proud to announce the return of a 24-year tradition,
Ballet Under the Stars,.
Ballet Under the Stars presents a unique and FREE opportunity to enjoy a varied ballet program ranging from classical to contemporary in an outdoor setting. The professional staging, lighting, costumes and performances are complemented by Arizona s beautiful fall weather. After the annual performance was forced to go virtual last year, we are thrilled that Arizonans will once again be able to enjoy this fantastic evening of dance in person, Ballet Arizona Executive Director Samantha Turner.
Arizona Opera Offers Aida This weekend.
By Margaret Regan
BACK IN 1869, when the Suez Canal was about to open, the
ruler of Egypt invited Giuseppe Verdi to compose a work heralding
the new mechanical marvel. Verdi was uninspired by the idea of immortalizing the unprecedented
sea link between the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Suez, but he
proposed an alternative: an opera set in the glory days of ancient
Egypt.
Aida didn t get finished in time to greet the first
boats
Rigoletto was a hasty substitute but
Aida
nevertheless had its debut in the Cairo Opera House, in 1871. Arizona Opera puts on its own
Guest Conductor Richard Westerfield Leads The TSO Through Mozart And Shostakovich.
By Emil Franzi
RICHARD WESTERFIELD, RECENTLY appointed Associate Conductor
of the Boston Symphony, will lead the Tucson Symphony in two performances
this week, with a program of Mozart and Shostakovich. He ll be
joined in the Mozart clarinet concerto by Burt Hara. Westerfield is currently the director of the Harrisburg Symphony.
Boston Maestro Seija Ozawa made Westerfield the first full Associate
Conductor there since Michael Tilson Thomas held the post 25 years
ago. Like Thomas and our own George Hanson, the 40-year-old Westerfield
is a protégé of the late Leonard Bernstein. At the
A Harrowing Plane Ride, Images Carved In Stone, And A Haunting Native Flute Are The Stuff Of Legends.
By Margaret Regan
WHEN MICHAEL UTHOFF came West seven years ago to become
artistic director of Ballet Arizona, he pledged to make dances
inspired by his new environment; or as he puts it, to try
to subjugate my artistry to the nature and culture that surrounds
us. That s how he found himself in trouble in a tiny airplane on
a dark night in Canyon de Chelly a few years back. He and composer
Brent Michael Davids, a Mohican transplanted to Arizona, were