SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
ARTS PARTNERSHIP The Arts Partnership is comprised of the four highly acclaimed organizations that perform regularly at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts – Minnesota Opera, the Ordway, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Schubert Club. The Partnership strengthens its organizations in service to the community through growing collaboration and stewardship of its shared assets. This season, the partners successfully completed an annual fund campaign of more than $600,000. That funding not only supported the Ordway as a world-class performing arts facility, but also allowed two co-presentations offering access to enriching arts experiences to the community.
Sphinx Virtuosi © Nan Melville
Family Arts Blast © Jayme Halbritter
SPHINX VIRTUOSI
FAMILY ARTS BLAST
For the third consecutive season, the Arts Partnership was proud
The annual Family Arts Blast is a morning of free family fun at the
to present Sphinx Virtuosi, a chamber ensemble comprised of the
Ordway where children of all ages can get hands-on interaction with
nation’s top Black and Latino classical string soloists. The program
music, dance, theater, and more! This year, families enjoyed a wide
took place at the Ordway’s Concert Hall and included a post-show
range of creative activities happening throughout the building from
reception where audiences could meet and mingle with the artists.
trying an instrument, learning new dance moves, exploring technical theater with costumes and sound effects — and every 20 minutes a new show or©concert was held in the two performance spaces. Sphinx Virtuosi Nan Melville mnopera.org | 13
