State of the Arts Blog

SPCO musicians say they are trying to speed up the negotiation process, in fear that the 101-day lockout could drag on for several weeks longer.
The reviews are in for Minnesota Opera’s ‘Doubt’
Most critics find this new opera to be 'deft,' 'subtle' and 'complex', but one complains sections are 'overlong and unoperatic.'
The 25th annual Minnesota Book Awards take place on April 13, 2013. Here's who's in the running.
Malamanya brings intensity to new CD
Malamanya, a Twin Cities group that performs its own interpretations of Afro-Latin music, unveils a new CD Saturday at Whiskey Junction in Minneapolis.
SPCO President Dobson West says the latest exchange of proposals show 'progress toward a solution that is both financially and artistically viable.'
Art Hounds: Batuque, Sondheim, and prairie painter pioneers
The hounds take you to St. Paul for some unadulterated Sondheim, to Minneapolis in search of the roots of Afro-Brazilian dance, and to Moorhead for some late 19th-century prairie paintings.