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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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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…
Witness the amazing talents of the Pius XI dance department! The spring show is always a sell-out so we’ve added a second performance, by popular demand. Seating is reserved and will sell quickly.
Witness the amazing talents of the Pius XI dance department! The spring show is always a sell-out so we’ve added a second performance, by popular demand. Seating is reserved and will sell quickly.
The newly created Wisconsin Intergenerational Orchestra will perform its debut concert on Tuesday, May 24 at 7:00 pm. Please join us for an eclectic musical celebration featuring WIO charter members along with special guest artists!
Don’t miss this year’s wonderful entry in the ongoing International Series at the Father Robert V. Carney Performing Arts Center, as we welcome another outstanding young band from Germany! The Symphonic Youth Wind Orchestra of Friedrichshafen will grace the Wendy Joy Lindsey Theater stage to dazzle our audience with symphonic and popular music from around the world. They are led by the brilliant French conductor Alain Wozniak, and they feature many talented soloists.
4:00-5:30 PM presentation
5:30 PM Dinner and self-guided tour of Conference Point Retreat Center
7:00 PM Mass celebrated with the Pius XI Choirs and Fr. Dennis Saran from Christ King Parish in Wauwatosa
Speaker: Dr. Dan Scholz, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Cardinal Stritch University
Topic: “We are many parts: Paul’s letter to the Corinthians”
Presented in conjunction with the Pius XI Choir Retreat, and the Pius XI 2016 Scriptural Theme: 1Corinthians 12:12, “We are many parts, but we are all one body”
Purchase Dr. Scholz’s 2013 book on the Pauline Letters here >
About Dr. Dan Scholz
Dan Scholz is currently Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cardinal Stritch University. He holds the rank of Associate Professor and is tenured to the Religious Studies Department, where he served as Chair from 2006-2011. Dr. Scholz also served as Executive Director of the Saint Clare Center for Catholic Life at Cardinal Stritch University from 2007-2011.
Dr. Scholz received his Ph.D. from Marquette University in 1997 in biblical theology. In 1998, he began teaching biblical studies at Saint Francis Seminary. In the fall of 2004 he began a new position at Cardinal Stritch University as a full-time faculty member in the Religious Studies Department and was named chair of the department beginning in the fall of 2005 and director of the Saint Clare Center, beginning in the fall of 2006. Dr. Scholz has over 30 years of teaching experience and he has taught at the high school, college and graduate school level. He began teaching theology in 1985 at Pius XI High School where he served as theology department chair for 10 years.
Dr. Scholz is an active member of the Catholic Biblical Society and the Society of Biblical Literature. He writes weekly columns for both Liturgy Training Publications and Liturgical Publications, Inc. Dr. Scholz has published three books with Anselm Academic: Jesus in the Gospels and Acts (2009; revised edition, 2013), The Pauline Letters (2013), and most recently, The Catholic Epistles, Hebrews, and Revelation (Fall 2016).
Dr. Scholz gives presentations and lectures in biblical studies at regional and national professional conferences, and in parishes and schools throughout the Archdioceses of Milwaukee. Dan is married with three children and belongs to Christ King Parish in Wauwatosa.
Join us as we celebrate the opening of the latest Pius XI Alumni Exhibition, “Just Space.” The exhibition features Hoesy Corona ’05 and Niki Kriese ’95.