The WSO Pops Series presents a mix of symphonic pop and contemporary music that is sure to please audiences of all ages. Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na BATMAN! One thing we all can agree on -- superheroes have the coolest theme songs. CJOB’s The Couch Potatoes return to the WSO to celebrate memorable superhero themes from favourites like Superman,...
The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra is known for performing chamber music by the world's best composers and offering an array of talent. Douglas Boyd conducts one of Manitoba’s richest Baroque-centric concerts of 2019. Simone Dinnerstein has been called one of America’s greatest living pianists. She performed with the MCO in 2018 and returns this November to...
GroundSwell is known for its eclectic and experimental performances by local, Canadian and international musicians. For her final season, the co-founder of GroundSwell Diana McIntosh has curated a program that combines live electronics, video, tape, extended vocal techniques and theatrical elements. The Naked Voice features vocalist Helen Pridmore performing solo vocal works by Canadian composers Ana Soklovic,...
Virtuosi Concerts is a popular classical music series co-produced by the University of Winnipeg and Virtuosi Concerts Inc. This piano/violin duo hails from Saskatchewan, but first met at McGill’s Schulich School of Music in Montreal, Québec, where they began their musical partnership in 2011. Their Virtuosi performance is part of a recital tour to over...
Set in a small Tennessee mountain village in the 1950s, Susannah tells the story of an 18-year-old girl who is being persecuted by the village elders. Winner of the New York Music Critics Circle Award for Best New Opera in 1956, Floyd’s powerful score is brimming with Puccini-like melodies, hymns, ballads and folk tunes. This...
Photo by Sam Layer Winnipeg's baroque vocal ensemble presents Bach's Magnificat in collaboration with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. The performance includes rarely-heard carol insertions that highlight the Nativity story. Ring in the holiday season with festive choruses and resounding trumpets at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church. Tickets: adults $35, seniors $30, students $20. Show starts...
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra presents BMO Night at the Movies, where audiences experience blockbusters on the big screen while their impressive musical scores are played live by the WSO. In this year's Christmas production, watch Jack Skellington plot to take over Christmas in Tim Burton’s ghoulish tale The Nightmare Before Christmas. This animated classic comes...
Photo by Michael Slobodian Lyric soprano Karina Gauvin is celebrated as one of the greatest singers of Baroque in the world today. She has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and numerous Baroque ensembles and opera companies. At the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra's December concert, this...
