Opera, ballet and classical music lovers have a wealth of decisions as worldwide stars will grace Montréal’s best levels this winter and Spring 2017, together with Japanese-American violinist Midori and French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, to not point out the world premiere of Another Brick In The Wall – The Opera, based mostly on Pink Floyd’s iconic album The Wall.
There's additionally a whole lot of buzz surrounding the McGill Chamber Orchestra’s stellar 77th season: their Poperetta live performance on the Corona Theatre on March 5 will showcase singers from the Atelier Lyrique de L’Opéra de Montréal; their Tenorissimo live performance on the Maison Symphonique on April 25 will star Quebec’s “Prince of Tenors” Marc Hervieux singing Bel Canto’s best-loved arias for tenor; and the MCO’s blockbuster Carmina Burana live performance on the Maison Symphonique on June 6 stars soprano Andriana Chuchman, baritone Theodore Baerg and internationally-acclaimed Canadian tenor John Mac Grasp.
The Opéra de Montréal’s 37th season continues with a manufacturing of Dialogues des Carmelites by Poulenc (Jan. 28 to Feb. four), then goes into excessive gear with the corporate’s March 2017 world premiere of Another Brick In The Wall – The Opera, based mostly on Roger Waters’ legendary work The Wall. The opera model composed by Julien Bilodeau is predicated on Waters’ lyrics and music and runs March 11 by way of 26 (4 further performances have already been added).
“It had been my expertise that collaborations between the worlds of rock and roll and symphonic music and the classical world have been usually disastrous,” says Waters. “However the Opéra de Montréal have been extraordinarily persuasive. They got here right down to New York for a gathering and performed me what that they had already began engaged on. I confess I sat there not anticipating to be moved, and I used to be moved.”
The Opéra de Montréal will then shut their season with Puccini’s much-loved opera La Bohème from Might 20 to 27.
One other opera manufacturing of word is Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus carried out by the top-notch Opera McGill on the historic Monument Nationwide from January 26 to 28.
Enjoyable one-night-stands embrace certainly one of Europe’s really nice string quartets, The Philharmonia Quartett Berlin, who return to Montréal on March 17 after a nine-year absence; and sensational French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky who will sing with Les Violons du Roy on April 7. Each exhibits are a part of an adventurous collection of classical-music live shows held year-round in Salle Bourgie on the Montréal Museum of Nice Arts.
In the meantime, ballet lovers are snapping up tickets for the long-lasting Swan Lake, danced to Tchaikovsky’s exhilarating and shifting rating, by the Perm Opera Ballet from February 22 to 26; and one other classical ballet, Le Mariage de Figaro, carried out by the Nationwide Ballet of Ukraine from April 26-29. Each productions are introduced by Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal at Salle Wilfred-Pelletier.
One other must-see is the famed Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: the New York dance firm is made up of males who completely parody classical ballet in drag. Based in 1974, “Les Trocks” (as they're extra affectionately recognized) headline Salle Wilfred-Pelletier on February 18 and 19.
Over on the Orchestre Métropolitain, Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin – the Montréal homeboy who will turn out to be music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York starting in 2020 – conducts The Force of Destiny live performance on March 12, in addition to a live performance with Canadian harpist Valérie Milot on Might 14.
The prolific Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal presents many must-see exhibits on the Maison Symphonique: Midori, the Japanese-born American violinist who made her debut on the age of 11 with legendary conductor Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic in 1982, will play Britten’s Violin Concerto in two much-anticipated live shows on February 9 and 12; British conductor Sir Andrew Davis will direct pianist Louis Lortie and the OSM in a program that features Vaughan Williams’ Piano Concerto, on April 6 and eight; and two organists will improvise soundtracks to accompany brief movies by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and different filmmakers within the February 17 live performance Organ and the Silent Film.
The OSM’s Grammy-winning music director, Maestro Kent Nagano, will conduct the orchestra in Bernstein: From West Side Story to A Quiet Place (Leonard Bernstein was certainly one of Nagano’s private mentors) on Might 17 and 18, in addition to in Shostakovich’s Final Symphony, on Might 24 and 25.
Then Nagano and the OSM will shut their 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 rejoice the 375th anniversary of Montréal.
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