Arts & Culture

This week, young artists take the stage in Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Spotlight.  

Featuring the primas and principals of future years, the mixed repertoire program featuring both classical ballet and new works showcases the talents of the professional division students, giving audiences a chance to see their developing artistry before they make the sauté to the big stage. 

“Today’s dancer needs to be versatile to enter the job market,” says RWB School Director Stéphane Léonard. “There’s a necessity to excel in both classical and contemporary works.” 

This weekend Heritage Winnipeg is inviting Winnipeggers to explore the rich history of our city.

Words sing off the page in Manitoba Underground Opera’s 2024 ‘Unwritten’ season and it all begins with an operatic adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s Rocking Horse Winner. 

Co-developed by Toronto-based Tapestry Opera, the English novelist’s short story was adapted by Canadian Anna Chatterton with music by Irish composer Gareth Williams.  

Starting this Thursday, May 23rd ad going until Saturday, May 25th at The Manitoba Theatre for Young People, the students of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Professional Division will be putting on their annual  Spotlight performances.

For 22 years, Winnipeg’s Dry Cold Productions has presented innovative and stimulating musicals to Manitoba audiences, believing in the transformative power of a good story.  

This season, they present the Manitoba premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along.  

“Just getting the rights to Merrily We Roll Along was a miracle for us here in Winnipeg,” says Dry Cold Productions co-founder Donna Fletcher.  

Finding Home: Miró String Quartet release extraordinary recording of new music for string quartet

On Wednesday, May 22nd at 7:30pm at Canadian Mennonite University’s Laudamus Auditorium, Winnipeg’s GroundSwell presents their fifth and final concert for this 2023-24 season.

This weekend Winnipeg’s Bolero Dance Theatre (BDT) Company is inviting audiences to fall down the rabbit hole, and embrace themselves in the fanciful word of Alice in Wonderland.

Manitoba Underground Opera writes the next chapter in their weird and wonderful history as they present a literary-inspired season filled with three operatic works set to jump off the page.  

“These three shows are bucket list pieces for me,” says MUO Executive Director Brendan McKeen. “These are ‘we need to make sure we are doing them’ (productions).”  

Geneva Halverson is a local mezzo-soprano who, musically, knows no bounds. 

Lieder, operetta, country western, musical theatre... it’s all fair game to the 2022 WMC McLellan Finalist, who has performed alongside the WSO and the Winnipeg Pops Orchestra and in Manitoba Underground Opera and Little Opera productions.