Arts & Culture

This week Winnipeg audiences will have the opportunity to travel – or travel back – to Neverland with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.  

American pianist Maxim Lando has been a star on the rise.  

The JAGD Quartet is one of the leading multi-generational chamber ensembles performing today – and they all happen to be related.  

This week, news broke of a potential fiscal precipice faced by arts organizations across the Canadian Prairies.  

Twenty signatories, including four of this province’s foremost arts institutions (Manitoba Opera, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra), sent a joint letter to Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez requesting additional federal funding.  

It’s not every morning we get to welcome a choir into the Classic 107 studio but that was indeed the case on Morning Light.  

Under the direction of Scott Reimer, the 12-voice MBCI Chamber Singers performed a pair of well-known tunes: “Orange Colored Sky,” most famously sung by Nat King Cole, and an arrangement of Elvis Presley’s “I can’t help falling in love.” 

Farce, flirtation, fidelity and flannel. 

Mozart’s charming comic opera Così fan tutte concludes Manitoba Opera's celebratory 50th anniversary season.  

“There's something about this piece that’s just different from all the other (Mozart operas), in that it reaches another height,” says director Rob Herriot.  

Building on the momentum of the previous concerts in the series, Canzona concludes the 2023 Winnipeg Baroque Festival (WBF) with two of the foremost composers of the era.