Ochestre Métropolitain – a season of musical discovery The Montrealer August 20, 2012 2974 Single tickets now on sale to for the 2012-2013 season For the 2012/2013 season, the Ochestre Métropolitain will present 9 different programs: Dvoøák and Rachmaninoff in exile, movie musical scores, Bach, Bruckner and Mahler, American composers, Vivaldi and his famous Four Seasons, a Prestige Concert marking Verdi’s 200th birthday, extraordinary talented emerging young musicians and a Strauss program with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, which will join forces with the orchestra to close the season. A star-studded cast of talented artists, among them three first chairs of the Orchestre Métropolitain, Yukari Cousineau (violin), Simon Aldrich (clarinet) and Marie-Andrée Benny (flute), four magnificent voices giving verve to Verdi’s Requiem (Amber Wagner, Karen Cargill, John Mac Master and Andrew Foster-Williams), Suzie Leblanc, a long-time collaborator with Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, as well as their composer-in-residence, Éric Champagne, all making for quality and musical synergy. Single tickets are now on sale from Place des Art (175 Ste.Catherine St. W). For more info: 514-842-2112 or www.laplacedesarts.com. Subscriptions to the Orchestre Métropolitain’s 2012/2013 season are still available from coordinator Jason Matthew Berard, box office and subscriber services. For more info: 514-598-0870 ext.21 or [email protected]
