Soprano Jacquelyn Wagner returns to Minnesota Opera this week for her debut as Arabella, the beautiful woman torn between her desire to marry for love and her family's need for her to marry for money. She and Minnesota Opera President Kevin Ramach came to Classical MPR to talk about the production and to sing an aria from it.
Why, after 200 years, do we still talk about Verdi? In this week's Learning to Listen, Emily Reese and special guest, Dale Johnson of the Minnesota Opera, explore that question while illustrating Verdi's three distinct compositional periods.
Adam Laurence Herskowitz, playing Calaf in the Minnesota Opera's production of Turandot, took the express from Newark to the Metropolitan Opera, with one quick stop — to change his voice!
On both Sunday and Monday at 2 p.m., Copper Street Brass Quintet will perform at the Minnesota State Fair on the stage at the MPR booth, located near the corner of Judson and Nelson. Founded in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2007, the Copper Street Brass Quintet (or CSBQ) relocated to Minneapolis in 2008.
Today at 2 p.m., resident artists from the Minnesota Opera will perform at the Minnesota State Fair at the MPR booth, located near the corner of Judson and Nelson. Classical MPR's Julie Amacher hosts.
Today at 2 p.m., Minnesota Boychoir will perform at the MPR booth at the State Fair, located near the corner of Judson and Nelson. According to its website, the Minnesota Boychoir is the oldest boy choir in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, having been founded in 1962.
The Minnesota State Fair is almost here! The State Fair runs from Aug. 22-Sept. 2, and each day Classical MPR will host performances by classical music ensembles at our State Fair booth.
Classical MPR is now in its fourth year of welcoming Artists-in-Residence to schools throughout Minnesota. One of this year's featured artists is The Summit Hill Brass Quintet.
Tune into Classical MPR on Wednesday, February 27 at 8 p.m. to hear Minnesota Opera's staging of Massenet's Werther with the pairing of international opera stars James Valenti and Roxana Constantinescu.
Kevin Puts won the Pulitzer Prize for music with Silent Night, which received its world premiere by the Minnesota Opera in St. Paul. You can hear it on air Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 8 p.m. on Classical MPR.
