Grammy Award-winning Maestro Kent Nagano has many particular live shows deliberate as Music Director of the OSM (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal), to have fun Montréal as a world capital of arts and tradition through the metropolis’s 375th anniversary in 2017.
The OSM’s present season is full of many hotly-anticipated live shows. Listed here are a selection few:
The three-day Italian Pageant presents the OSM beneath the path of Carlo Rizzi in The Italian Violin: From Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to Paganini on March 14; Verdi & The Great Operatic Choruses with star soprano Marianne Fiset singing a few of the best Italian opera arias (together with Ave Maria from Otello) on March 15; and The Pines of Rome & Famous Italian Film Soundtracks, which can showcase the music from such basic movies as The Godfather, La Dolce Vita and As soon as Upon a Time within the West, on March 16.
A pairing producing a whole lot of buzz is famed British conductor Sir Andrew Davis who will direct pianist Louis Lortie and the OSM in a program that features Chopin, Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11, and Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 6 in B minor, op. 74, on April 6 and eight.
The massively in style all-star OSM Pop Collection has beneath the course of affiliate conductor Simon Leclerc tailored the music of everyone from Mika to Blue Rodeo. On April 18, 19 and 20, it's the flip of Jacques Brel, one of many giants of French-language music. A few of the singers participating in Brel Symphonic embrace Diane Inform and Quebec’s “Prince of Tenors” Marc Hervieux.
Then on Might 17 and 18, Maestro Kent Nagano himself will conduct the OSM in Bernstein: From West Side Story to A Quiet Place. Leonard Bernstein was one in every of Nagano’s private mentors. Bernstein wrote West Aspect Story in 1957 and the gay-themed opera A Quiet Place in 1984. “I used to be anticipated to help at most of the rehearsals of Maestro Bernstein and certainly one of productions he was conducting through the years I used to be with him was the second model of A Quiet Place,” Nagano says. “As Bernstein advised me himself, a few of his most revolutionary music lay inside that rating.” The OSM can be accompanied by an outstanding forged of classical singers, together with baritone Gordon Bintner.
Nagano may even conduct the orchestra and Rafał Blechacz on piano in Shostakovich’s Final Symphony on Might 24 and 25 earlier than closing the OSM’s 2016-2017 season by becoming a member of forces with world-renowned multimedia leisure studio Second Manufacturing unit to create a brand new work entitled Symphony for Montréal on Might 31 and June 1 and a couple of, to have fun the 375th anniversary of Montréal.
All these live shows might be held on the Maison Symphonique de Montréal.
Then this summer time, the OSM will proceed Montreal’s 375th anniversary social gathering when it joins forces with the Orchestre Métropolitain and the McGill Symphony Orchestra to current the free outside live performance Montréal Symphonique on August 19. Introduced on the foot of Mount Royal, the huge live performance will function greater than 300 musicians, particular visitor pop artists and choral singers, all underneath the path of Simon Leclerc, full with particular projections evoking the town and its inhabitants.
The OSM will finish its summer time with its massively widespread annual pageant OSM Classical Spree (higher recognized by locals by its French identify, La Virée Classique), which this yr runs from August 10 to 13. 5 ticketed live shows have already been introduced, together with Journey to the Mediterannean on August 12, which can function Nagano conducting the OSM and American Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist Sharon Isbin enjoying the well-known Zorba’s Dance by composer Mikis Theodorakis. As well as, the OSM kicks off the pageant annually with an enormous free outside live performance for tens of hundreds of classical-music lovers on the esplanade outdoors Olympic Stadium. For live performance updates and tickets, go to vireeclassique.osm.ca.
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