Arts editor HELEN MUSA takes a look at performance news in this week’s “Arts in the City” column.

THE Spanish Film Festival’s opening film this year is the Australian premiere of the comedy “Two Many Chefs”, set in Bilbao’s world of high cuisine. A standout in the season is the “Lord of Dance: A Focus on Carlos Saura” retrospective, which includes Saura’s box-office smash, “Carmen”, starring legendary dancers Antonio Gades and Laura del Sol. At Palace Electric, June 14-July 5.

“MARRY Me A Little” is billed as a “charming and bittersweet musical revue that features songs by Stephen Sondheim”. Two urban single strangers share a Saturday night of fantasies and yearning while never leaving the confines of their solitary apartments. Directed by Jarrad West, at ACT Hub, Kingston, June 14 (preview) to June 24.

CANBERRA Choral Society’s next concert, “Coming Home”, will feature the world premiere of its director Dan Walker’s composition “The Last Migration”, commissioned last year by the choir to commemorate its 70th anniversary, as well as Ola Gjeilo’s “Sunrise Mass” and Sally Whitwell’s “Lux Aeterna” and “Home”. Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, 6pm, June 17.

STORYFEST, the storytelling festival based in Milton, Mollymook and Ulladulla on the south coast, is back with a line-up of more than 50 authors, musicians, filmmakers, slam poets, broadcasters and chefs. June 15-18.

CANBERRA’S Apeiron Baroque is dedicating a concert to the unusual viola d’amore and “the black sheep of the string family”, the viola. Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, June 11.

LONG-time members of Canberra Philharmonic have been mourning the death of former musical star and art teacher Marie Jensen, who died aged 94 on May 17. As well as appearing on the main stage many times, Jensen was a regular performer at the School of Arts Café in Queanbeyan.

MUSICA Viva Australia is bringing Grammy-winning American piano virtuoso Garrick Ohlsson to Llewellyn Hall, June 15.