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February 2019
SUBSCRIBE: Family Series 2019-2020
Family Series Subscribers save $5 per adult ticket, and you can select any three, four, or all five Family Series events to subscribe. Enjoy these great benefits Get $5 off each adult ticket! Family Series events are $15 each for single ticket buyers, but subscriber tickets are only $10 each. Children ages 0-17 are completely free! Reserve up to 4 free child tickets for each paid adult ticket (children 17 and under must be accompanied by an adult). Get flexible and…
Find out more »March 2019
PREVIEW PERFORMANCE: Candide, March 20
Advance ticket sales are now closed. TIckets are still available and can be purchased at The Cowles Center beginning at 6 PM. This is a preview performance. Seating is general admission. VocalEssence Ensemble Singers VocalEssence Chamber Chorus Phinehas Bynum Michael Fairbairn Bradley Greenwald Liz Hawkinson Susan Hofflander Rodolfo Nieto Liv Redpath G. Phillip Shoultz, III Chamber orchestra Philip Brunelle, music director Peter Rothstein, stage director This production is in partnership with Theater Latté Da. With star-crossed lovers, villains, Monty Python-esque comedy, and…
Find out more »CONCERT: Candide, March 21
This event is sold out. VocalEssence Ensemble Singers VocalEssence Chamber Chorus Phinehas Bynum Michael Fairbairn Bradley Greenwald Liz Hawkinson Susan Hofflander Rodolfo Nieto Liv Redpath G. Phillip Shoultz, III Chamber orchestra Philip Brunelle, music director Peter Rothstein, stage director This production is in partnership with Theater Latté Da. With star-crossed lovers, villains, Monty Python-esque comedy, and a beautiful score, Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is opera for the people. Wrapped in irony, this musical follows the optimistic young Candide in search of…
Find out more »CONCERT: Candide, March 22
This event is sold out. VocalEssence Ensemble Singers VocalEssence Chamber Chorus Phinehas Bynum Michael Fairbairn Bradley Greenwald Liz Hawkinson Susan Hofflander Rodolfo Nieto Liv Redpath G. Phillip Shoultz, III Chamber orchestra Philip Brunelle, music director Peter Rothstein, stage director This production is in partnership with Theater Latté Da. With star-crossed lovers, villains, Monty Python-esque comedy, and a beautiful score, Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is opera for the people. Wrapped in irony, this musical follows the optimistic young Candide in search of…
Find out more »CONCERT: Candide, March 23, 2 PM
This event is sold out. VocalEssence Ensemble Singers VocalEssence Chamber Chorus Phinehas Bynum Michael Fairbairn Bradley Greenwald Liz Hawkinson Susan Hofflander Rodolfo Nieto Liv Redpath G. Phillip Shoultz, III Chamber orchestra Philip Brunelle, music director Peter Rothstein, stage director This production is in partnership with Theater Latté Da. With star-crossed lovers, villains, Monty Python-esque comedy, and a beautiful score, Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is opera for the people. Wrapped in irony, this musical follows the optimistic young Candide in search of…
Find out more »CONCERT: Candide, March 23, 7:30 PM
This event is sold out. VocalEssence Ensemble Singers VocalEssence Chamber Chorus Phinehas Bynum Michael Fairbairn Bradley Greenwald Liz Hawkinson Susan Hofflander Rodolfo Nieto Liv Redpath G. Phillip Shoultz, III Chamber orchestra Philip Brunelle, music director Peter Rothstein, stage director This production is in partnership with Theater Latté Da. With star-crossed lovers, villains, Monty Python-esque comedy, and a beautiful score, Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is opera for the people. Wrapped in irony, this musical follows the optimistic young Candide in search of…
Find out more »CONCERT: Candide, March 24
This event is sold out. VocalEssence Ensemble Singers VocalEssence Chamber Chorus Phinehas Bynum Michael Fairbairn Bradley Greenwald Liz Hawkinson Susan Hofflander Rodolfo Nieto Liv Redpath G. Phillip Shoultz, III Chamber orchestra Philip Brunelle, music director Peter Rothstein, stage director This production is in partnership with Theater Latté Da. With star-crossed lovers, villains, Monty Python-esque comedy, and a beautiful score, Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is opera for the people. Wrapped in irony, this musical follows the optimistic young Candide in search of…
Find out more »FAMILY SERIES: Tales & Tunes, 9:30 AM
Tickets are off sale online, but walk up sales will be available on Saturday, March 30 starting at 9 am. Members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Singers Of This Age Nancy Carlson, author Let’s create together! In this musical story time, your little ones can roll up their sleeves and make a craft, sing along to nursery rhymes with our singers, and hear acclaimed local author Nancy Carlson read some of her most-loved books. Listen to brand new songs…
Find out more »FAMILY SERIES: Tales & Tunes, 11:30 AM
Tickets are off sale online, but walk up sales will be available on Saturday, March 30 starting at 11 am. Members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Singers Of This Age Nancy Carlson, author Let’s create together! In this musical story time, your little ones can roll up their sleeves and make a craft, sing along to nursery rhymes with our singers, and hear acclaimed local author Nancy Carlson read some of her most-loved books. Listen to brand new songs…
Find out more »April 2019
CONCERT: The Times They Are A-Changin’
VocalEssence Chorus & Ensemble Singers Ashley DuBose, guest appearance Jeremy Messersmith, guest appearance Nation, guest appearance Bob Dylan’s timeless music has been covered by everyone from Jimi Hendrix to the Kronos Quartet. As the finale to our 50th season, it’s time to add our name to the list. Join us as we reimagine Dylan in the Midwest premiere of The Times They Are A-Changin’: The Words and Music of Bob Dylan, commissioned in honor of his 2016 Nobel Prize in…
Find out more »May 2019
FAMILY SERIES: VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Community Concert 2019
VocalEssence Singers Of This Age Field Community School, Minneapolis Harding High School, St. Paul Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion School, New Hope Hear our community come together as hundreds of students join VocalEssence to celebrate Mexico in song at the VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Community Concert. The culmination of a year-long composer-in-residence program, this bilingual concert includes premieres and an audience sing-along that will leave you with a renewed hope that music can change the world. Learn more about the VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Program by…
Find out more »EVENT: Tienda at TPT
This unique performance at TPT Studio A in Lowertown, St. Paul will feature a partially staged opera by Schubert Club Composer-in-Residence Reinaldo Moya with words by Caitlin Vincent. Among the singers and instrumentalists featured in this chamber opera is mezzo soprano Clara Osowski and members of the VocalEssence Singers Of This Age. The opera tells the story of Luis Garzón, a Mexican musician who immigrated to Minneapolis in 1886 and opened a small Mexican grocery store, or tienda, in St.…
Find out more »EVENT: Tienda at Neighborhood House
This unique performance will feature a partially staged opera by Schubert Club Composer-in-Residence Reinaldo Moya with words by Caitlin Vincent. Among the singers and instrumentalists featured in this chamber opera is mezzo soprano Clara Osowski and members of the VocalEssence Singers Of This Age. The opera tells the story of Luis Garzón, a Mexican musician who immigrated to Minneapolis in 1886 and opened a small Mexican grocery store, or tienda, in St. Paul in the 1920s. While Luis had married…
Find out more »September 2019
FAMILY: Tales & Tunes 2019, 9:30 AM
Advance ticket sales are now closed. Tickets are still available and can be purchased at the door beginning at 8:45 AM. Let’s create together! In this musical story time your little ones can roll up their sleeves and make a craft, sing along to nursery rhymes with VocalEssence singers, and hear acclaimed authors, David LaRochelle and Mike Wohnoutka read some of their most-loved books. Listen to brand new songs written by teen moms through our Lullaby Project and create a song with us…
Find out more »October 2019
CONCERT: Divine Light, 4 PM
Advance ticket sales are now closed. A limited number of tickets are still available and can be purchased at the door beginning at 2:30PM. More tickets are available for the 7PM performance. Soak in the intimate beauty of the human voice in this unique chamber performance exploring the relationship between the human and the divine. Joining the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers on this journey will be Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Associate Concertmaster Ruggero Allifranchini. Skillfully selected for the space, the wide-ranging…
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