The Minnesota Orchestra, under music director Thomas Søndergård, is performing Puccini’s “Turandot” in concert for the first time in years, featuring soprano Christine Goerke and signaling a possible return to opera in the ensemble’s programming.
The federal government has pulled over a million dollars in museum grants from Minnesota institutions — including the Science Museum, the Walker Art Center, and the Mille Lacs Band — amid nationwide cuts ordered by the Trump administration.
MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region.
A new exhibition at Vandalia Tower in St. Paul showcases more than 300 works by Lucy Kreisler Smith, a Holocaust survivor and lifelong artist, in a retrospective curated by her son, Dan Smith.
MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, highlighting standout performances, exhibits and gatherings around the region.
This week, Art Hounds highlight Cherokee-language puppetry, a comedy showcase by Hmong and Asian American performers and a deep dive into Minnesota’s poetic past.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will open “The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York” on July 17, a significant solo exhibition of the Grand Portage Anishinaabe artist’s work and a rare presentation at a major institution outside Minnesota.
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