Tag: Lakes Area Music Festival

The Great American Songbook to be Presented Locally by Lakes Area Music Festival

The Lakes Area Music Festival kicks off its fall programming on Friday, September 30 with a concert of vocal jazz and showtunes featuring audience favorite, Broadway soprano Andrea Ross. The performance will take place at the Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts beginning at 7:30 p.m. Ross will bring a program of familiar tunes from the…
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September 22, 2022 0

Metropolitan Opera Singers to be Featured in First Opera at the New Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts

On Friday and Sunday, August 12 and 14, the Lakes Area Music Festival presents the first full opera production ever to grace the stage of the Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts: Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss. Featuring six singers from the Metropolitan Opera and the all-star LAMF orchestra led by music director, Christian Reif, Ariadne auf Naxos promises…
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August 8, 2022 0

Lakes Area Music Festival Cabaret Back By Popular Demand

The Lakes Area Music Festival’s all-star cast of opera singers will serenade audiences with some of their musical theater favorites at this year’s Cabaret event, August 5 at 7:30 p.m. in Grandview Lodge’s Norway Center. This popular ticketed event will sweep audiences off their feet as soloists from the Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera and…
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August 3, 2022 0

Lakes Area Music Festival to highlight French work with August 3rd concert

Release from Lakes Area Music Festival: The Lakes Area Music Festival presents “Three Statues,” on Wednesday August 3, at 7:30 p.m. in downtown Brainerd’s Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts. The chamber music concert features lush textures and soaring melodies for winds, strings, and piano. French works by Maurice Ravel and Francis Poulenc sit alongside a…
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July 28, 2022 0

Lakes Area Music Festival’s 14th Annual Season Kicks Off July 30-31

The Lakes Area Music Festival opens its 14th annual season on July 30 and 31 with “Tribute to the Earth.” Saturday’s concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday’s event is at 2 p.m. – both in the new Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts, located in Brainerd. This orchestral concert, led by music director, Christian Reif, includes…
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July 21, 2022 0