While many people most associate the Minnesota Chorale with the Minnesota Orchestra, the choir has stamped its own identity through community singalongs, education programs and its own concerts. This MNuet video, created during this 40th...
With their third annual Early Music Festival, Zeitgeist examines the profound impact of the electronic signal on music-making, revealing electricity’s transformative power with regard to how we create, listen and perform. As a group of...
Black Violet is the landmark collaboration between Fifth House Ensemble of Chicago and graphic novelist Ezra Claytan Daniels. Slides are projected throughout the concert, telling the tale of Violet, a black cat during the last great plague of...
VocalEssence has planned a varied and challenging 45th season. “One would think it would be a challenge to keep things fresh after more than four decades — but we find the contrary to be true,” Philip...
The Singers, led by Artistic Director Matthew Culloton, have accepted an invitation to perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s a capella masterpiece Vespers as part of the prestigious Ravinia Festival, June 18 and 19. In anticipation of the festival,...
Minnesota Opera continues its run of “Hamlet” with performances at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Saturday and a closing matinee, 2 p.m. Sunday, at the Ordway. The opera, with music by Ambroise Thomas and libretto by...
The Minnesota Chorale, one of the nation’s leading professional ensembles, throws its annual Gala Saturday, March 2, at the J.J. Hill Reference Library in St. Paul. The Chorale celebrates its 40 years in collaboration with...
Fresh off its hailed premiere of “Doubt,” Minnesota Opera steps back into the classics—at least of the theatrical form—with the Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Composer Ambroise Thomas and librettists Michel Carré and Jules Barbier turned this story...
The Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies (GTCYS) has named Mark Russell Smith as its new artistic director, effective June 2013. Smith, a Juilliard School and Curtis School of Music graduate, is well-known and respected in...
There’s so much happening in classical music this weekend—particularly a gluttonous Sunday—you may not even have the energy to sneak over to First Avenue for the Testament thrash fest! Let’s open with Zeitgeist’s “Playing it...