Arts & Culture

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.  

Though you may not have heard of the ensemble, you have likely heard its members' voices as, together, they are some of the most experienced choristers in the city.  

Proximus 5 – Scott Reimer, Dan Rochegood, Paul Bruch-Wiens, Jereme Wall, and Josiah Brubacher – perform in the second Winnipeg Baroque Festival concert, aptly titled “A Proximus Baroque.”  

For the first time in Canada, a full-scale Indigenous-led opera will be presented on a mainstage.  

Li Keur: Riel’s Heart of the North will open the company’s 51st season on November 18. The world premiere will be paired with the return of one of the most popular operas of all time, Carmen, which was cancelled in March 2020 owing to the pandemic, opening on April 13, 2024.  

Find the full press release below.   

For many of us the television channel PBS brings up thoughts of sitting in front of the TV as a child watching Sesame Street, or perhaps the Electric Company or maybe as we got older… taking in English comedies that originally aired on the BBC. Perhaps for many it brings up iconic personalities such as the painter Bob Ross, Mister Rodgers, or Bill Nye the Science guy.

For us Canadians PBS has been something we have been lucky enough to get from television affiliates south of the Border.