1+ hour, 56+ min ago  (328+ words) We opened with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, the first great wholly-surviving opera, premiered 1607 in Mantua. Orpheus descends to the underworld to rescue Eurydice with the power of music - the Toccata and "Dal mio Permesso amato" announce not only Orpheus as a hero…...

4+ hour, 35+ min ago  (386+ words) This special broadcast also serves as a prelude to an exciting live performance happening the very next day. On Sunday, April 12, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra joins forces with the Winnipeg Sonora Voices under the direction of Valdine Anderson and Anne…...

12+ hour, 41+ min ago  (10+ words) Seven years later, a dream comes true for Rosemary Siemens'Classic107...

11+ hour, 41+ min ago  (531+ words) Valdine Anderson, the former director of Sonora Voices and a respected choral conductor, brings her deep experience and connection to the ensemble to this special collaboration with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. "Sonora Voices is really what I'd consider almost like…...

9+ hour, 46+ min ago  (317+ words) Feats of speed, skill and'stamina will be on full display this weekend at the Centennial Concert Hall as the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra presents The Orchestra Games.'Over the course of the hour-long performance, musicians will'represent'different nations to'showcase'their strengths on the…...

11+ hour, 11+ min ago  (257+ words) Three of Winnipeg's most beloved double reed players will take to the Winnipeg Baroque Festival stage this weekend to share their reimaginations of 17th'and 18th'century music.' Fresh off their debut album release'earlier this year of rearrangements of J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations,…...

11+ hour, 46+ min ago  (658+ words) After a two-year hiatus, the Manitoba Book Awards are set to return in 2026 to celebrate the best in the province's literary community. Originally founded in 1989, the awards have celebrated some of the most venerated authors Manitoba has ever produced from…...

14+ hour, 36+ min ago  (501+ words) Internationally acclaimed pianist Valerie Dueck will return to the southeast next month for a special homecoming performance with the Steinbach Arts'Council.' Provided by Steinbach Arts Council Raised in'Kleefeld, Dueck developed her early musical foundation in the region before building a'career…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (426+ words) Camille Rogers first came across the story of Julie'd'Aubigny'nearly a'decade ago on an internet deep dive.' "It was really'an out'of the blue, too good to be'true'moment," they recall.' D'Aubigny - aka'Mademoiselle'Maupin " was a star mezzo-soprano in Paris at the end of…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (446+ words) One of the stalwart features of the Winnipeg Baroque Festival over the last few years has been'the Choral Evensong'contributed by All the King's Men. The resident choir of St. John's College at the University of Manitoba is preparing'a'slightly'different'offering'with their evensong…...