Classical
de Waart and Mahler’s Third
The MSO's music director has conducted Mahler's Symphony No. 3 dozens of times over 35 years. It remains a fascinating puzzle, just provisionally solved.
Jun 4th, 2010 by Tom Strini
The Skylight’s Evening with a very human Gilbert & Sullivan
Dale Gutzman ingeniously weaves operetta artifice, Skylight tradition and compelling character development.
May 30th, 2010 by Tom Strini
Ilana Setapen’s Milwaukee debut recital
The young violinist, the new associate concertmaster of the MSO, plays a smashing recital at the Wisconsin Conservatory.
May 29th, 2010 by Tom Strini
The MSO, Trpceski and Saint-Saens
FRIDAY NIGHT UPDATE: LINK TO REVIEW OF ILANA SETAPEN'S RECITAL! See link at the end of the MSO review, or clink on the headline in the More Stories box.
May 28th, 2010 by Tom Strini
Everything Old Is New Again at the Skylight
Dale Gutzman returns to direct after a 25-year absence, with Gilbert & Sullivan fantasy inspired by the Skylight's very first show.
May 27th, 2010 by Tom Strini
Pianist Simon Trpceski
Meet Macedonia's gift to the classical music world.
May 27th, 2010 by Tom Strini
The great Joe Johnson
The MSO's principal cellist, exiting for the Toronto Symphony, gives a fond farewell with a brilliant recital.
May 25th, 2010 by Tom Strini
An imaginative Florentine Rigoletto
Georgia Jarman is an extraordinary Gilda, Noele Stollmack's set is way cool, and conductor Joseph Rescigno is in his element.
May 22nd, 2010 by Tom Strini
The Skylight’s rockin’ Rent
Donna Drake directs the 1989 rock version of La Boheme, set on the mean streets of New York.
May 20th, 2010 by Tom Strini
Georgia (and Gilda) on my mind
Soprano Georgia Jarman is Rigoletto's ill-fated daughter in the Florentine Opera staging of Verdi's 1851 opera.
May 20th, 2010 by Tom Strini
You can support arts education at MPS
a.r.t. benefit concert features local bands to fund arts programs at Milwaukee Public Schools that are facing the chopping block
May 18th, 2010 by Patti Wenzel
Old songs, new twists
Kelly Anderson, Jill Anna Ponasik and Nathan Wesselowski weave dance and a story around 26 Italian Songs and Arias.
May 14th, 2010 by Tom Strini
