Arts & Culture

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.  

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. 

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.

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. 

Erin Propp and Larry Roy are the kind of musicians who make you lean and listen. There’s a sincerity to their sound, full of nuance and subtlety, clarity and precision.  

On March 29th Universal Classics released a terrific CD that features the music of Gershwin, as performed by pianist Norman Krieger and the Prague National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Neal Gittleman.

For over 75 years, the River City Sound A Capella Chorus has been harmonizing and building community through music. Though, it hasn’t always been under that moniker.  

“Previously, we were known as the Winnipeg Golden Chordsmen,” says Les Creek, choir member and VP Music and Performance with the group. 

This weekend Winnipeg audiences have the opportunity to experience something really special. On Saturday, May 11th at 7:30pm our Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra will be joined by the fantastic American pianist Claire Huangci in a program featuring the piano concertos of Gershwin and Ravel. Then on Sunday afternoon at 2:30pm at the WAG-Qaumajuq,  Huangci will be performing a solo recital as part of Virtuosi’s 2023-24 concert season.