Si, el Teatro que están construyendo (Ya casi está terminado) es el "Teatro Diana", será el teatro más grande de la ciudad y funcionará también como Auditorio, así que ya tendremos espectaculos de talla internacional, creo que querían traer a Sarah Brightman para inaugurarlo, pero quedo en que traeran a un grupo de danza muy conocido en el mundo, así que el "Teatro Diana" será el equivalente del Auditorio Nacional del DF, mientras esperamos que terminen el Auditorio Metropolitano del CCU.
Además ahora que la Muestra de Cine Mexicano se convirtio en Festival Internacional, este teatro será la sede de tal evento.
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http://www.guadalajarareporter.com/fullcover.cfm?id=9
Exhilarating Celtic music and dance spectacular to open city’s Diana Theater
Photograph by : Monica Rueda
The University of Guadalajara’s new Teatro Diana is located at Avenida 16 de Septiembre 710, a few blocks from the Agua Azul Park.
Story by : Michel Forbes
The University of Guadalajara (U de G) has selected the global entertainment phenomenon known as "The Lord of the Dance" to inaugurate its new showpiece theater on February 4, 5 and 6.
The 2,500-seat Teatro Diana was described this week by U de G culture chief Jeffrey Fernandez Rodriguez as "the finest theater in western Mexico."
The Teatro Diana rose from the crumbling timbers of an abandoned movie theater on Avenida 16 de Septiembre, a few blocks from Guadalajara's Agua Azul Park. It's taken more than two years and 70 million pesos to transform the building into a modern, elegant cultural space.
Fernandez said the theater will become the "natural home" for large U de G events, including the Sunday morning performances by the university's famed folkloric ballet troupe, which have taken place at the Degollado Theater for the past 30 years.
The U de G organizes two major cultural events each year: the film festival in March and the International Book Fair at the end of November. The Teatro Diana will be used exclusively for both events.
Although Lord of the Dance was not the original choice to inaugurate the theater - neither Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli nor soprano Sarah Brightman were reportedly available - it is nevertheless a magnificent production that people will want to see, Fernandez noted.
The show, which features more than 40 dancers, debuted in July 1996 in Dublin, Ireland and has been seen by 50 million people in 35 countries. Four Lord of the Dance troupe perform around the world at any given time, including one that is based permanently in Las Vegas.
Lord of the Dance is a mesmerizing blend of traditional and modern Celtic music and dance. Says the show's website: "The story is a classic tale of good versus evil based on old Irish folklore: the Dark Lord challenges the Lord of the Dance. It is also a passionate love story, expressed through dance numbers that transport audiences into a mystical and exhilarating world of intense passion. The action is played out on a grand scale with precision dancing, dramatic music, colorful costumes, state-of-the-art staging, lighting."
The Teatro Diana will stage three performances of Lord of the Dance, on February 4 and 5 at 8:30 p.m. and on February 6 at 6 p.m. Tickets cost 350 to 850 pesos and can be purchased at the Teatro Diana box office (Avenida 16 de Septiembre 710) or from Ticketmaster by calling (33)3818-3800 ext. 2. (Be patient with the automated system in Spanish and an operator will eventually answer; ask for an English-language operator if needed.)
As yet, the U de G has not reached an agreement with owners of nearby lots to rent parking space for the theater, but Fernandez expects this problem to be resolved prior to the opening date.
Fernandez said the U de G will bring performers of the highest quality to the theater, but warned that the university will only subsidize its own projects. Lord of the Dance is costing two million pesos to bring to Guadalajara, he noted, in justifying the relatively high cost of the tickets.
Fernandez said the first theatrical performance at the theater would likely be a run of "The Graduate" based on the novel by Charles Webb. In January, U de G officials will sit down with representatives from Guanajuato's Cervantino Festival to discuss bringing some of this event's stars to Guadalajara in the fall of 2005. Also planned is a presentation of "Carmen," as well as "Carmina Burana" with a choir from the Vienna Opera.
The Teatro Diana contains a rehearsal hall and a mini-theater with a capacity for an audience of about 100.
For any group or individual wishing to rent the theater, the cost will be 45,000 pesos, Fernandez said.
The opening of the Teatro Diana will be a feather in the university's cap but some critics say the institution should not be taking over the government's role in the generation of new cultural spaces.
"It's not possible that in the last three decades, the government [of Jalisco] has not concerned itself with building new cultural facilities," said Jose de Jesus Hernandez Padilla, a member of the Jalisco College of Architects. "What a contrast with [the state of] Nuevo Leon, that has overtaken us by constructing cultural facilities of great capacity and quality."
Another auditorium the U de G is building at its Belenes campus on the northern outskirts of the city is scheduled for completion in 2007.
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