At the foot of Mount Royal

One of the summer’s most-anticipated concerts in Montreal – the Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the foot of Mount Royal – is back this year after hosting a record-breaking audience in 2023. On August 6 at 7:30pm, all of Montreal is invited to join Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the OM for this event – a unique opportunity to take in the music with tens of thousands of people at this iconic Montreal landmark. Everyone should experience it at least once!

The event, presented by CN, will start off with some of the most well-known melodies in symphonic music, Suite No. 1 from Bizet’s Carmen. This will be followed by a true Québécois tune, Claude Champagne’s Danse villageoise. Then we’ll hear excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s ballet Fancy Free (as Yannick Nézet-Séguin was a consultant on Maestro, our conductor naturally had to lead one of this great composer’s works) and the Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, III. Juba: Allegro by African American composer Florence Price. And for the pièce de résistance, the Orchestre Métropolitain will perform Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony, the first symphony composed and published by an American woman.

Host Pierre-Yves Lord will doubtless bring his infectious energy to this unforgettable event. There will be a couple of surprises for the audience too, but you’ll have to be at the foot of Mount Royal on August 6 to find out what they are!

Free. No Reservations needed.

For more information about the program, visit: www.orchestremetropolitain.com