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Come check out the skill and talent of 100+ elementary and middle school students who take instrumental music lessons through the Pius XI Performing Arts Academy! This concert is FREE and open to the public.
Join us as we celebrate the opening of the latest Pius XI Alumni Exhibition, “Reverberation.” The exhibition features Jenny Poetzel ’94, Marissa Waraksa ’09, Jordan Waraksa ’03, and Nick Waraksa ’00.
Don’t miss the amazing voices of our Women’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble–one night only in the Black Box Theater.
Featuring the Carroll University Wind Symphony, International Music Project, Carroll University Choirs and 300 area voices from Pius XI Catholic High School, Indian Trails High School, Waukesha West High School, Fond du Lac High School, Wautoma High School, Muskego High School, and select members of the Jubilate Chorale.
William Shakespeare’s charming 1601 comedy is a topsy-turvy world of cross-dressing lovers, yellow cross-garters, and crossed identities. Shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria, Viola has lost her country and beloved twin brother. Disguising herself as Cesario, a page, she falls in love with Duke Orsino even as she delivers his affections to lovely Lady Olivia. Between beautiful songs, high comedy, and delicate poetry, love redeems all!
TWELFTH NIGHT is performed:
When you are passionately, purely in love, nothing else matters—not even life itself. Shakespeare’s consummate tragedy of young lovers swept into a catastrophic vortex of misunderstandings, secrets and fate is adapted and directed by Milwaukee theatre artist Danny Brylow. Romeo and Juliet, the son and daughter of two wealthy families locked in an old feud, are irresistibly drawn to each other. Defying the hatred and distrust surrounding them, they dare to believe they can, and must, be together.
ROMEO AND JULIET is performed:
William Shakespeare’s charming 1601 comedy is a topsy-turvy world of cross-dressing lovers, yellow cross-garters, and crossed identities. Shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria, Viola has lost her country and beloved twin brother. Disguising herself as Cesario, a page, she falls in love with Duke Orsino even as she delivers his affections to lovely Lady Olivia. Between beautiful songs, high comedy, and delicate poetry, love redeems all!
TWELFTH NIGHT is performed:
William Shakespeare’s charming 1601 comedy is a topsy-turvy world of cross-dressing lovers, yellow cross-garters, and crossed identities. Shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria, Viola has lost her country and beloved twin brother. Disguising herself as Cesario, a page, she falls in love with Duke Orsino even as she delivers his affections to lovely Lady Olivia. Between beautiful songs, high comedy, and delicate poetry, love redeems all!
TWELFTH NIGHT is performed:
When you are passionately, purely in love, nothing else matters—not even life itself. Shakespeare’s consummate tragedy of young lovers swept into a catastrophic vortex of misunderstandings, secrets and fate is adapted and directed by Milwaukee theatre artist Danny Brylow. Romeo and Juliet, the son and daughter of two wealthy families locked in an old feud, are irresistibly drawn to each other. Defying the hatred and distrust surrounding them, they dare to believe they can, and must, be together.
ROMEO AND JULIET is performed:
When you are passionately, purely in love, nothing else matters—not even life itself. Shakespeare’s consummate tragedy of young lovers swept into a catastrophic vortex of misunderstandings, secrets and fate is adapted and directed by Milwaukee theatre artist Danny Brylow. Romeo and Juliet, the son and daughter of two wealthy families locked in an old feud, are irresistibly drawn to each other. Defying the hatred and distrust surrounding them, they dare to believe they can, and must, be together.
ROMEO AND JULIET is performed:
Join our student instrumentalists for a program of contemporary chamber music!
Join us for our annual film festival, featuring more than 10 short films created by high school students at Pius XI and around the Milwaukee area! Meet the next generation of filmmakers right here in our Wendy Joy Lindsey Theater. Tickets are $3 for students and $5 for adults and will be sold at the door only.
The Bach Chamber Choir of Milwaukee, led by music director Brian McLinden, presents
The Bard in Spring
This choral concert, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, will feature musical settings of texts by Shakespeare and several other well-known English poets.
Texts will include excerpts from “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Measure for Measure,” “As You Like It,” “Hamlet,” “Othello,” Twelfth Night,” “The Winter’s Tale,” and “Two Gentlemen of Verona.”
The music will be as varied as Shakespeare’s works, ranging from lush, haunting settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Orlando Gibbons and John Rutter to lilting, joyful and even boisterous settings by Thomas Morley, Franz Schubert, Emma Lou Diemer, Brian McLinden and others.
Tickets (cash or check only, please):
- $17 in advance, $18 at the door
- $10 for students
- $1 senior discount
For tickets and information, call 414.319.9816.
Join us to see the latest instrumental music achievements of the Pius XI Performing Arts Academy, our outreach program for Milwaukee-area elementary and middle school students!
Join us as we celebrate the opening of the latest Pius XI Alumni Exhibition, “Reverence.” The exhibition features Rachel Ragatz-Truscott ’01 and Julie Ryan ’88.
This is the 23rd annual Pius XI Student Play Festival – a chance for students to write, produce, direct and act their own work! You will hear voices comic, serious, absurd and delightful as you enjoy the amazing plays of the students at Pius.
This is the 23rd annual Pius XI Student Play Festival – a chance for students to write, produce, direct and act their own work! You will hear voices comic, serious, absurd and delightful as you enjoy the amazing plays of the students at Pius.
Latin for “to make, create, produce,” CREO is an annual celebration from Mount Mary University’s School of Arts & Design showcasing the student designer fashion show series at the Father Robert V. Carney Performing Arts Center on May 6th, and art and design exhibits at the Mount Mary University Campus beginning April 25th. For more information, go to www.mtmary.edu/creo.
Three performances are available on Friday, May 6:
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Partner Sponsors:
Rhody & Carolyn Megal
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Always a spring favorite! Check out the full year’s worth of repertoire from all of the Pius XI choirs.
Including Excerpts from:
- Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
- Frostiana by Randall Thompson
- Folks Songs for Choirs edited by John Rutter
- The New Novello Part- Song Book edited by Robert Walker
- Requiem by John Rutter
- Songs of Survival by Margaret Dryburgh
- Frühlingslied (Songs of Spring) by Felix Mendelssohn
- Mass by Michael Haydn
- In Windsor Forest by Ralph Vaughn Williams
And more…