The 23rd Havana Ballet Festival opened on Sunday with the ballets “En la noche” and “La fille mal gardée” at the newly reopened National Theater of Cuba. The festival continues in the Cuban capital through November 7th. (20 photos)
Read MoreCuba’s famed Singer Omara Portuondo took the stage at the Mella Theater in a gala last week to open a festival put on by Cuban TV. Also performing were musician Waldo Mendoza, singer Sory, the Los Embajadores trio and Puerto Rican singer/songwriter Dany Rivera. (12 photos)
Read MoreThe 20-person jury is still out, trying to reach a verdict for the winners of this year’s 5-category HT Cuba Photo Contest. We’ve decided to let our readers also have a chance to view the photos that made it to the semifinal round. (196-photos)
Read MoreMusic is the art, theory and technique of combining sound with melody and harmony. Pedagogy is the discipline of educating and teaching. The person I interviewed, Adriana Asseff, has succeeded in merging these two pursuits.
Read MoreThe musical project called La Yucafunck held their first concert last weekend before a packed and enthusiastic audience at the National Theater in Havana. They played classic jazz, bossa nova and Cuban conga music. The band is made up of a dozen talented young musicians including Aldo López Gavilán, Harold López Nussa, Ruy López Nussa, Robertico Martinez, Michel Garcia, Juan Carlos, Evaristo Denis, Claudio Poirot, Dj Jigue, Gretel Barreiro, David Torrens, Mikel y Avi. (17 photos)
Read MoreThe Big Band Ribe, a jazz and concert band from Denmark, performed on Tuesday at the Casa de la Guayabera, located in the central province of Sancti Spiritus.
Read MoreSpain’s Verbum publishing company will soon present two titles by Cuban writers living on the island — Lina de Feria and Josefina de Diego — at the Center for Modern Art in Madrid.
Read MoreThe Jose Marti National Library reopened its doors on Monday in Havana, after a remodeling that cost more than a million euros in Spanish assistance.
Read MoreAs the 23rd Havana Ballet Festival nears (Oct. 28 – Nov. 7) we interview the great maestro of Cuban ballet Fernando Alonso. ” I feel very happy when I see how the theater fills, how the people applaud, how much ballet is loved here in Cuba, and how so many people want to study it.”
Read MoreThe National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, as part of their first US tour, will perform on October 27th in New York City, where thy will feature works from their classical Cuban and universal repertoires.
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