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Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
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More than 80 concerts and internationally renowned artists highlight the SPCO's 2025-26 season
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's 2025-26 season is packed with more than 80 concerts spread around eight Twin Cities venues with a host of exciting programs. 'Our musicians, working in close collaboration with our Interim Artistic Director Jonathan Posthuma, have constructed a wonderful and exciting season ahead,' SPCO Managing Director and President Jon Limbacher says. 'In our musician-led artistic model, the musicians function as the music director and are involved in every aspect of the programming and what happens on stage.' Since 2004, musicians have had a hand in the programming each season. This year, they took inspiration from Robert Schumann, one of the composers featured in the season, and his quote: "To send light into the depths of the human heart — this is the artist's calling!" In addition to the music of Robert and Clara Schumann, the season includes Johann Sebastian Bach's four orchestral suites, which the SPCO says serve as a connection point throughout the season, pairing well-known works from oft-performed masters with contemporary composers. The season includes appearances from renowned pianist Richard Goode, experimental South African cellist Abel Selaocoe (the SPCO recently performed his "Four Spirits"), pianist Jonathan Biss, Hungarian conductor Gábor Takác-Nagy, and violist Tabea Zimmerman, among others. The SPCO opens the season on Sept. 12–14 with Mozart's Jupiter Symphony and continues that month with a performance of Bach's First Orchestral Suite featuring bassoonist Andrew Brady (Sept. 19–21) and Selaocoe's "Hymns of Bantu" (Sept. 26–28). Concerts will take place at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, as well as Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Apple Valley; Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie; Saint Andrew's Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi; Basilica of Saint Mary, Capri Theater, and Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis; and Saint Paul's United Church of Christ. The complete calendar can be found on the SPCO site, with tickets starting as low as $16 for adults. Children and students are admitted for free. Season passes are available now, and individual show tickets will go on sale in August.
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
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Broadway hit 'Legally Blonde' replacing 'Mystic Pizza' at The Ordway this summer
The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts has announced that it is adding "Legally Blonde" to its 2024-25 season. The musical, based on the 2001 film starring Reese Witherspoon, will hit the Music Theater stage from June 10–15. The story of Elle Woods breaking stereotypes in pursuit of a law degree from Harvard takes the place of "Mystic Pizza," which had previously been announced as part of the Ordway season. The producers of 'Mystic Pizza" have moved its tour to a later date, according to an announcement from the Ordway. 'We are excited to bring this new production of 'Legally Blonde' to our audiences,' Ordway President and CEO Chris Harrington said in a statement. 'Full of memorable songs and nostalgic moments from the film, it is the perfect summertime musical to cap off our 24-25 season.' The musical will follow performances of "Come From Away" (Mar. 5–8), "Dear Evan Hansen" (Mar. 11–16), and "Mean Girls" (Apr. 8–13) in the Broadway at the Ordway series. Tickets for "Legally Blonde" are on sale now through the Ordway website.
