Intermezzo at 1:00 this week: Ballet Scores as we anticipate the RWB Professional Division’s upcoming Spotlight performances
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.
‘Merrily We Roll Along’ rolls into Winnipeg: director Donna Fletcher and actor Catherine Wreford on the Sondheim musical
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
Finding Home: Miró String Quartet release extraordinary recording of new music for string quartet
Strings Attached…to Dazzling Diamonds: GSwell presents final concert of the season
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.
Alice in Wonderland with a Spanish Flair: Bolero Dance Theatre mounts new production
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.
MUO encourages audience to get lost in the pages of their operatic season
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).”
'Let there be angst!': Geneva Halverson in recital
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.
Symphonic bloom: Winnipeg Pops Orchestra presents spring concert
It’s beginning to sound a lot like springtime.
The Winnipeg Pops Orchestra and a cast of special guests celebrate the season with their “The Sound of Spring” concert this week.
Intermezzo at 1:00 this week: The chamber music of Karl Goldmark
Tune in at 1:00pm all this week as we celebrate May 18th being the 194th birthday of the composer, violinist and music critic Karl Goldmark.
Gershwin and Ravel: Classic from the Concert Hall
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra closes out their Saturday Classic series with a program of French and French-inspired music.
Conducted by maestro Daniel Raiskin, the acclaimed American pianist Claire Huangci makes her belated WSO debut. Originally scheduled for a performance in 2021, the award-winning pianist introduces herself to the Winnipeg audience with two 20th Century piano concerti: one by Maurice Ravel and the other by George Gershwin.