Hey Winnipeg! What are you doing this weekend?  Let the Classic 107 Arts & Entertainment Calendar be your guide.

Attention all you Diana Krall fans! Tickets go on sale Friday morning (Nov 28) at 10:00 AM for her Wallflower World Tour. The Canadian jazz songstress will bring her show to Winnpeg May 19 at the Centennial Concert Hall. Tickets are available through ticketmaster. Diana Krall's new album 'Wallflower' is produced by fellow Canadian David Foster and is set to drop Feb 3rd, 2015.

Check out this great video of Diana Krall performing live in Rio a few years back. She sings The Boy from Ipanema to a very appreciative crowd . . .

 

 

 

Friday night (Nov 28) is the final performance of Manitoba Opera’s Fidelio. Beethoven’s only opera, this courageous love story was picked to commemorate the opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Fidelio tells the story of Leonore who poses as a boy (Fidelio) in order to work in the prison where her husband is wrongly imprisoned for his political beliefs. When his execution is imminent, Leonore risks everything, including her life to free her beloved and his fellow prisoners.

See what audiences are saying about Fidelio!

 

 

Showtime is 8:00 PM Friday night (Nov 28) at the Centennial Concert Hall. For tickets call 204.944.8824 or go HERE.

 

 

We all know that Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn were child prodigies, but you don’t often hear about children today at that level. Well this weekend the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra welcomes 13-year-old Emily Bear. Emily is one of the most astonishing musical talents of our time—composing orchestrating and performing in styles ranging from classical to jazz and more. She made her festival performance debut at the age of 5. At 6 she began studying classical piano with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s principal keyboardist Mary Sauer. She also studies with the head of the piano department at Julliard. At 9 she made her debut at Carnegie Hall. At 10 she appeared at the Hollywood Bowl where she played a medley of her arrangement alongside artists like Gloria Estefan, Patti Austin and Canadian jazz prodigy Nikki Yanofsky. Emily also shares the same mentor as Nikki – The legendary Quincy Jones. Last year her jazz album “Diversity” wen to #3 on Billboard’s Traditional Jazz Album Chart.

 

 

Emily Bear performs with the WSO this Saturday night (Nov 29) for one show only at the Centennial Concert Hall. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

 

 

Also on this weekend at SilveCity Polo Park, encore screenings of Carmen. This is part of the MET Live in HD series  Cineplex does. Richard Eyre’s mesmerizing production of Bizet’s steamy melodrama returns with mezzo soprano Anita Rachvelishvili singing her signature role of the ill-fated gypsy temptress. Aleksandrs Antonenko plays her desperate lover, the soldier Don José, and Ildar Abdrazakov is the swaggering bullfighter, Escamillo, who comes between them. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the irresistible score, which features one beloved and instantly recognizable melody after another.

 

 

 

Showtimes are 11:00 AM Saturday (Nov 29) and 12:55 PM Sunday (Nov 30) afternoon at SilverCity Polo Park.

 

 

Sunday afternoon (Nov 30) we go back to the Centennial Concert Hall for a very special kids concert with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Storyteller Samantha Whelan Kotkas narrates Winter Solstice: A Rocky Mountain Fairy Tale with the orchestra. Set in the meadows above Canmore, where fairies meet and dance in the light of the full moon, the magical tale follows a girl cross-country skiing in Mt. Assiniboine where she and her friends prepare for a trek that teaches them to expect the unexpected. Singing, dancing, audience interaction and beautiful artwork combine for a spellbinding message about the commitment and dedication to do anything in life well.

Listen to  a bit of the show below.

 

 

Showtime is 2:00 PM Sunday afternoon (Nov 30) at the Centennial Concert Hall

 

Travelling outside the city boundaries but still quite close, The Providence Chamber Singers invite you to join them in their annual Festival of Christmas Praise celebrating the Christmas season. There are two performances, Friday night (Nov 28) and Saturday night (Nov 29) at 7:30 PM at Providence University College – which is in Otterburne, MB – about 25 minutes south east of Winnipeg. The concerts will feature the University Choir, the Winnipeg Brass Quintet as well as guest performers. This event has become a holiday tradition at the college and is completely free to the  public.

 

And finally . . .

Looking ahead to Monday night (Dec 01). Winnipeg latin Jazz group Trio Bembe are releasing a Christmas album! Feliz Navidad! A Latin Christmas. The trio will be performing music from the new recording as well other fan favourites. The event will also include a bake sale, gift wrapping and a draw. So that’s Monday night at the Park Theatre on Osborne St. South. Tickets are $15 in advance/$20 at the door which you can get at the Park Theatre or online triobembe.com. Doors open at 7:30 PM and Showtime is 8:00 PM.

Tune in to the Classic 107 Arts & Entertainment Calendar with Claudia Garcia de la Huerta every Thursday & Friday twice a day at 7:45 AM and in the 4:00 PM hour on The Diamond Lane. Plus Saturday mornings at 11:15 AM with new Classic 107 host, Simeon Rusnak.