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2007-2008 Season (valid informations on May 24, 2007)
 
Monthly concerts calendar   
May 2007
 

Friday, May 4, 7:00 PM

Kassel, Germany / Kassel Staatstheater
Frankfurt Radio Sinfonieorchester
Ruth Ziesak, soprano

Program

Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye - suite
Britten: Illuminations
Mahler: Symphony N°. 4


Sunday May 6, 7:30 PM

Montreal / Basilique Notre-Dame
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal
Maria Guleghina, soprano
Neil Shicoff, tenor
Bryn Terfel, bass-barytone

Gianna Corbisiero, soprano
Marianne Cornetti, mezzo-soprano
Marc Hervieux, tenor
and
The Choir of the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Puccini : Tosca, Act 1
Bizet : Carmen, Act 2
Verdi : Aïda, Duo and Triomphal March

A BENEFIT CONCERT
For the Orchestre Métropolitain and the Concordia Fine Arts
opera@concordia.ca

 
 
June 2007
 


Friday, June 1st, 8:30 PM

Monte Carlo, Monaco / Auditorium Rainier III
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo
Aldo Ciccolini, piano

Program

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto N°. 2
Beethoven: Symphony N°. 3 in E flat major ‘Eroica'

Monday, June 11, 7:30 PM

Montreal / Place des Arts, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Mahler: Symphony N°. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'

Wednesday and Thursday, June 27 and 28, 6:30 PM
Friday, June 29, 11 AM

Sydney, Australia / Sydney Opera House
Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Program

Haydn: Symphony 104 ‘London'
Meale: Very High Kings
Debussy:
Images

 
 
July 2007
 

Wednesday, July 4, 8 PM ; Thursday, July 5, 1:30 PM
Friday and Saturday, July 6 and 7, 8 PM

Sydney, Australie / Sydney Opera House
Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Program

Mahler: Symphony N°. 6 in A minor

Wednesday, July 11, 7:30 PM

Montreal / Centre Pierre-Charbonneau
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal
Hong Xu, piano

Program

Bach: Prelude and Fugue (no to be announced)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto N°. 4 op. 58 in G major
Mozart: Symphony N°. 41 K551 in C major « Jupiter »


Tuesday, July 17, 7:30 PM

Montreal / Théâtre de Verdure
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Bach: Prelude and Fugue (no to be announced)
Beethoven: Egmont op. 84
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachmusik K525
Mozart: Symphony N°. 41 K551 in C major « Jupiter »


Wednesday, July 18, 7:30 PM

Montreal / Centre Pierre-Charbonneau
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal
Alexander Dobson, baritone

Program

Mendelssohn: Overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage op. 27
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
J. Strauss: Thousand And One Nights op. 346
Mozart: « Rivolgete » from Cosi fan Tutte
Mendelssohn: Symphony N°. 4 op. 90 « Italian »


Sunday, July 29, 7:30 PM

Montreal / Théâtre de Verdure
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Mendelssohn: Overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage op. 27
J. Strauss: Thousand And One Nights op. 346
Mendelssohn: Symphony N°. 4 op. 90 « Italian »
 
 
August 2007
 

Wednesday, August 1st , 7:30 PM

Montreal / Centre Pierre-Charbonneau
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Ravel: Spanish Rhapsody
Fauré: Pavane op. 50
Berlioz: Hungarian March (Faust Damnation)
Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Ravel: Boléro

Thursday, August 2, 7:30 PM

Dorval, Millenium Park
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Mendelssohn: Overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage op. 27
J. Strauss: Thousand And One Nights op. 346
Mendelssohn: Symphony N°. 4 op. 90 « Italian »

Friday, August 3, 6 PM or 8 PM (to be announced)

Festival International de Musique de chambre d’Ottawa
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano
Alexander Dobson, baritone

Program

Schubert: Die Winterreise D.911 (to be confirmed)

Sunday, August 5, 5:30 PM

Montreal Nuns’ Island, Vancouver Park
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Mendelssohn: Overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage op. 27
J. Strauss: Thousand And One Nights op. 346
Mendelssohn: Symphony N°. 4 op. 90 « Italian »


Sunday, August 5, 9 PM

Concert de clôture des Francofolies, Closing concert, outside grand stand
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal
Pierre Lapointe

Arrangements  : Yannick Plamondon and Marc Ouellette

Program

La Forêt des mal-aimés

Wednesday, August 8, 8 PM

Concerts aux Îles-du-Bic, Église Ste-Cécile, Le Bic
http://www.bicmusique.com/
Éthel Guéret, soprano
Alexander Dobson, baritone
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano

Program

Schumann: Fraunliebe und leben
       Schubert: Winterreise

Thursday, August 9, 8 PM

Concerts aux Îles-du-Bic, Église Ste-Cécile, Le Bic
http://www.bicmusique.com/
Jennifer Bourdages, piano
Élise Lavoie, violin
James Darling, cello
Pierre Tourville, alto
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano

Program

Schumann: Impromptus «Reflets d'Orient» op. 66
pour piano quatre mains

       Schubert: Fantaisie D940 en fa mineur pour piano quatre mains
       Schubert: Impromtu N°1 en do mineur
       Schumann: Quatuor en mi bémol op. 47 avec piano

Saturday, August 11, 8 PM

Orford Festival, Centre d’Art Orford
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Mendelssohn: Overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage op. 27
J. Strauss: Thousand And One Nights op. 346
Mendelssohn: Symphony N°. 4 op. 90 « Italian »
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 K551 in C major « Jupiter »

Sunday, August 12, 8 PM

Orford Festival, Centre d’Art Orford
Alexander Dobson, baritone
Éthel Guéret, soprano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano

Program

Schubert: Winterreise D.911
Schumann: Frauenliebe op. 42

Thursday, August 30, Wellington Michael Fowler Centre, 7 PM
Saturday, September 1st, Christchurch Town Hall, 7 PM
Monday, September 3, Auckland Town Hall, 7 PM

New Zealand Youth Orchestra

Program

Ravel: La Valse (Waltz)
Bartok: Concerto for orchestra
Nzso Nyo (composer in residence): (title to be announced)
[World Premiere]
Debussy: La Mer (The Sea)
 
 
September 2007
 

Friday, September 7, 6:30 PM

Wellington Town Hall
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Program

Wagner: Die Meistersinger - Prelude
Lohengrin - Prelude (Act 1)
Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod
Der Fliegende Holländer - Overture
Tannhaüser – Overture
Gotterdamerung – Immolation


Monday, Septembre 17, 7:30 PM, Montreal, St-Jean-Baptiste Church
and
Friday, Septembre 21, 8 PM,
Montreal, St-Nom-de-Jésus Church

Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Schubert: Symphony N°. 7 in B minor « Unfinished »
Bruckner : Symphony N°. 9 in D minor

Monday, September 24, 7:30 PM

Montreal, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal
Louis Lortie, piano
Chœur de l'Orchestre Métropolitain
See the poster

Program

Beethoven  : Chorale Fantasy with piano and orchestra op. 80
Piano Concerto N°. 4 op. 58
Symphony N°. 5 op. 67

 
October 2007
 

Thursday, October 4, 8:30 PM
Saturday, October 6, 6 PM

Auditorium de Lyon
Orchestre National de Lyon

Program

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Fauré/Aubert: Fantasy for flute and orchestra
Ibert: Flute Concerto
Rachmaninov: Symphony N°. 2

Wednesday, October 10, 7:30 PM
Thursday, October 11, 6 PM

Stora Salen
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Nina Stemme, soprano

Program

Wagner: Wesedonk-Lieder
Tchaïkovski: Symphony N°. 6 «Pathetic»

Monday, October 22, 7:30 PM

Montreal / Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts
and on tour on the Montreal Island :

Thursday, October 18, 7:30 PM, Outremont, Théâtre Outremont
Friday, October 19, 8 PM, Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School
Sunday, October 21, 4 PM, St-Léonard, Salle Mirella et Lino Saputo

Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal
Anton Kuerti, piano
Wonny Song, piano

Program

Mendelssohn: Overture Hebrides
J. S. Bach : Piano Concerto in D minor BWV1042 (W. Song)
Wagner : Siegfried Idylle
Beethoven : Piano Concerto N°. 2 in B flat (A. Kuerti)
 
 
November 2007
 

Thursday, November 8, 8:15 PM
Friday, November 9, 8:15 PM
Saturday, November 10, 8:15 PM
Sunday, November 11, 2:15 PM

De Doelen
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Program

R. Strauss: Tod und Verklarung
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Beethoven: Symphony N°. 3 «Eroïca» op. 55

Wednesday, November 14

Northern Sinfonia

Program

De Falla: Tricorne 1st Suite
Debussy/De Falla: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Suite
Bizet: Symphony in C

Friday, November 16

Northern Sinfonia

Program

De Falla: Tricorne 1st Suite
Debussy/De Falla: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Suite
Bizet: Symphony in C

Friday, November 21

Northern Sinfonia
Bradley Creswick, violin

Program

J. S. Bach/Stravsinsky: Prelude and Fugue
J. S. Bach: Suite N° 2 in B minor BWV1067
J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto N° 1 in A minor BWV 1041
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Suite

Friday, November 23

Northern Sinfonia
Bradley Creswick, violin

Program

J. S. Bach/Stravsinsky: Prelude and Fugue
J. S. Bach: Suite N° 2 in B minor BWV1067
J. S. Bach: Komm, Jesu komm
J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto N° 1 in A minor BWV 1041
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Friday, November 24

Northern Sinfonia
Bradley Creswick, violin

Program

Woolrich: Come and Go
J. S. Bach: Suite N° 2 in B minor BWV1067
Debussy/De Falla: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
De Falla: Tricorne 1st Suite
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Suite
J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto N° 1 in A minor BWV 1041

Wednesday, November 28 and 29

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Helsinki
Kirill Gerstein, piano

Program

Mozart: Adagio and fugue
Schönberg: Piano Concerto
Schubert: Symphony N°. 9 in C major “The Great”
 
 
December 2007
 

Tour on the Montreal Island:

Monday, December 10, 8 PM, Hochelaga, Maisonneuve College
Tuesday, December 11, 7:30 PM, Ahuntsic, Armenian First Church
Friday, December 14, 8 PM, Pierrefonds, Marie-Reine-de-la-Paix Church
Saturday, December 15, 8 PM, Rivière-des-Prairies, Marie-Victorin College

Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Tchaïkovski: The Nutcracker, suite N°. 1, op.71A

Friday, December 21, 8 PM

Paris, Place Boïeldieu
Orchestre National de France
Steven Isserlis, cello

Program

Debussy: Images for orchestra : Iberia
Debussy: Jeux
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Saint-Saens: Celle Concerto N°. 1
 
 
January 2008
 

Sunday, January 13

Lisbon
Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Program

Haydn: Symphony N°. 44
J. S. Bach: Suite N°. 2 in B minor
Mozart: Symphony N°. 40 K550

Thursday, January 17, 7:30 PM
Saturday, January 19, 7 PM

Symphony Hall
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Biss, piano

Program

Beethoven: Piano Concerto N°. 3 op. 37
Bruckner: Symphony N°. 9 in D minor

Wednesday, January 23, 12:45 PM (Grote Zaal)
Friday, January 25, 8:15 PM
Saturday, January 26, 8:15 PM

Sunday, January 27, 8:15 PM

De Doelen
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Angelich, piano

Program

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Jan. 26 & 27 only)
Debussy: Images for orchestra : Iberia
Ravel: Spanish Rhapsodie
(Jan. 26 & 27 only)
 
 
February 2008
 

Monday, February 4, 7:30 PM

Montreal / Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts
and on tour on the Montreal Island:

Thursday, January 31, 8 PM, Rivière-des-Prairies, Marie-Victorin College
Tuesday, February 5, 7:30 PM, St-Laurent, Saint-Sixte Church
Wednesday, February 6, 7:30 PM, Verdun, Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs Church
Thursday, February 7, 7:30 PM, Outremont, Théâtre Outremont
Friday, February 8, 8 PM, Pointe-Claire, St-Joachim Church

Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Tchaïkovski: Symphony N°. 2 op.17
Symphony N°. 6 «Pathetic»

Wednesday, February 13, 8 PM
Thursday, February 14, 8 PM
Saturday, February 16, 7:30 PM

Roy Thompson Hall
Toronto Symphonic Orchestra
Yundi Li, piano

Program

Enescu: First Romanian Rhapsody (Feb. 13 & 14 only)
Tchaïkovsky: Piano Concerto N°. 1 op. 23
Dvořák: Symphony N°. 6 op. 60

Friday, February 15, 7:30 PM

Eglinton St. George's United Church, 35 Lytton boulevard, Toronto

The Bach Consort Chorus and Orchestra
Monica Whicher, soprano
Elizabeth Turnbull, contralto
Lawrence Wiliford, ténor (Evangelist)
Colin Ainsworth, ténor (arias)
Alex Dobson, basse (Jesus)
Russel Braun, basse (arias)
Toronto Children’s Chorus

Program

J.S. Bach : St. Matthiew Passion

Sunday, February 24, 11 AM
Monday, February 25, 8 PM
Tuesday, February 26, 8 PM

Semperoper
Dresden Staatskapelle
Christine Brewer, soprano

Program

Debussy: Jeux
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder
Tschaikowsky: Francesca da Rimini
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite N°. 2
 
 
March 2008
 

Saturday, March 8, 4 PM
Sunday, March 9, 8 PM

Groβer Saal :
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin

Program

Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) – five children’s pieces
Berlioz:
Les nuits d'été (Summer Nights) for voice and orchestra op. 7
Skrjabin: Symphony N°. 3 « Divine Poem » in C minor op. 43

Friday, March 14

Halle-aux-Grains
Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Christine Brewer, soprano

Program

R. Strauss: Les quatre derniers lieder (Four Last Songs)
R. Strauss: Alpine Symphony

Sunday, March 16

Halle-aux-Grains
Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse

Program

Haydn: Symphony N°. 38
Ibert: Flute Concerto
Schubert: Symphony N°. 7 in B minor « Unfinished »

Wednesday, March 19, 7:30 PM
Thursday March 20, 7:30 PM
Friday, March 21, 7:30 PM

De Doelen
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Jörg Dürmüller, tenor
Ekkehard Abele, bass-baritone
Emma Bell, soprano
Robert Murray, tenor
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Lemalu, bass-baritone
Nederlands Kamerkoor

Program

J. S. Bach: Matthaus Passion

Wednesday, March 26, 2:15 PM
Saturday, March 29, 7 PM

Symphony Hall
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Elisabeth Leonskaja

Program

Mozart: Symphony N°. 40 K550
Brahms: Piano Concerto N°. 1

Monday, March 31, 7:30 PM

Montreal, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal
Anik Bissonnette, danseuse

Program

Rimski-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
 
April 2008
 

Thursday, April 3, 8 PM

Montreal, Rivière-des-Prairies, Marie-Victorin College
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Franck: Symphony in D minor
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Thursday April 10, 7 PM
Friday, April 11, 1:30 PM
Saturday April 12, 8 PM


Kennedy Center Concert Hall

National Symphony Orchestra (Washington D.C., USA)
Julian Rachlin, violin

Program

Shostakovich: Suite from the Gadfly (## 1, 3, 7, 11)
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 77/99
Mussorgsky: Prelude to Kovanstchina ("Dawn on the Moskva River")
Rachmaninoff: Danses symphoniques, Op. 45

Monday, April 14, 7:30 PM
Montreal, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
and on tour on the Montreal Island:

Monday, April 7, 8 PM, Hochelaga, Maisonneuve College

Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Franck: Symphony in D minor
Fauré: Requiem op. 48
Canadian work with choir (commissioned by the OMGM)

Friday and Saturday, April 18 and 19, 8 PM

Chan Centre for the performing Arts
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Katherine Chi, piano

Program

Haydn: Symphony N°. 26 in D minor « Lamentatione »
C.P.E. Bach: Piano Concerto in D minor
J. S. Bach: Piano Concerto in F minor BWV 1056
Haydn: Symphony N°. 49 in F minor « La passione »
 
 
May 2008
 

Monday, May 12, 7:30 PM

Montreal / Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Mahler: Symphony N°. 7

Thursday, May 22, 8 PM
Friday, May 23, 8 PM

Salle Southam
National Arts Centre Orchestra
Katherine Chi, piano

Program

Linda Bouchard: Exquisite Fires
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
Brahms: Symphony N°. 4 op. 98

Thursday, May 29, 8 PM
Saturday, May 31, 8 PM

Roy Thompson Hall
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Kovacevich, piano

Program

Brahms: Piano Concerto N°. 2
Brahms: Symphony N°. 4 op.98

May 24 and 28, June 2, 5 and 7, 8 PM

L’Opéra de Montréal
Hiromi Omura
Richard Troxell
James Westman
Annamaria Popescu
Jon Kolbert
Set Designer: Moffat Oxenbould

Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal

Program

Puccini: Madame Butterfly
 
 
June 2008
 

Friday, June 13, 8:15 PM
Saturday, June 14, 8:15 PM

And on Asian tour (June 15 to 25)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Rotterdam
Yundi Li, piano

Program

Ketting: de Ankomst
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Shostakovitch: Symphony N°. 5
 
August 2008
 

August 2, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 19, 22 and 25

Salzburg Festival
Felsenreitschule
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

Bartlett Sher, Stage director
Michael Yeargan, Sets
Catherine Zuber, Costumes
Jennifer Tipton, Lighting
Anna Netrebko (August 2, 6, 9, 12, 15, 19, 22, 25), Juliette
Ailyn Pérez (August 18), Juliette
Rolando Villazón (August 2, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 22, 25), Roméo
John Osborn (August 19), Roméo
Mikhail Petrenko, Frère Laurent
Russell Braun, Mercutio
Cora Burggraaf, Stéphano
Falk Struckmann (August 2, 9, 12, 15, 25), Le Comte Capulet
In-Sung Sim (August 6, 18, 19, 22), Le Comte Capulet
Juan Francisco Gatell, Tybalt
Susanne Resmark, Gertrude
Mathias Hausmann, Le Comte Paris
Jean-Luc Ballestra, Grégorio
Robert Murray, Benvolio

New production
In French, with German and English surtitles

Program

Charles Gounod (1818-1893):ROMÉO ET JULIETTE
Opera in five acts

New production
In French, with German and English surtitles


Trusday, August 21, 8 PM

St-Peter's Abbey, Salzbourg
Ingela Bohlin, Soprano
Marie-Claude Chappuis, Soprano
Jeremy Ovenden, Tenor
Markus Werba, Bass

Salzburg Bach Choir
Alois Glassner, Chorus Master

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Mass in C minor, K. 427 (417a)

Rreconstructed and completed by Helmut Ed