Schubert: The Dream – September 25, 2024 LiveEvents September 16, 2024 365 Bourgie Hall presents Orchestre de l’Agora – Schubert: The Dream Schubert Lieder – Year 1 In 1822, Franz Schubert wrote down one of his dreams. In this opening concert of Schubert’s complete lieder, Nicolas Ellis and Ema Nikolovska draw upon ideas from this dream to lead us on a journey into the composer’s imagination, with orchestrations by Berlioz, Webern, Reger, and Ian Cusson as well as excerpts from his symphonies. Artists Orchestre de l’Agora Orchestre de l’Agora uses music as a tool for sustainable social change while presenting innovative and audacious concerts. Its musicians actively participate in its social actions through music. Since its foundation in 2013, the Orchestra has distinguished itself through numerous initiatives, notably winning a first JUNO prize for the Viola Borealis album, featuring violist Marina Thibeault, as well as the prix Opus for “Musical Event of the Year” for its 2022 Gala de la Terre pour les enfants, which also raised $255,000 for environmental and humanitarian organizations. Nicolas Ellis, conductor Nicolas is one of the most active conductors on the Canadian scene. He has been invited to conduct the Vancouver Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano Macedonian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska completed her Master’s in Voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she also completed the Opera Course. She was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2019-2022 and in 2022 she became a recipient of the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. She is an Alumna of the International Opera Studio at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin where in 2023 she made her role debut as Octavian Der Rosenkavalier. She returns in the 2024/25 season for Stefano in Romeo et Juliette. In the 2023/24 season she made her house and role debut as the Fox in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at the Canadian Opera Company and her debut at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre singing the lead role in George Benjamin’s Picture a Day Like This, a role she will revive this season at the Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg. Émile Proulx-Cloutier, narrator Program SCHUBERT An den Mond, D. 193 Die Nacht, D. 983c Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major : I. Allegro – II. Andante con moto – III. Menuet – Allegro molto Symphony No. 7 in B minor : I. Allegro moderato Der Zwerg, D. 771 Der Wegweiser, from the song cycle Winterreise, D. 911 Erlkönig, D. 328 Frühlingstraum, from the song cycle Winterreise, D. 911 Der Blumen Schmerz, D. 731 Thekla ’Eine Geisterstimme’, D. 595 Nacht und Träume, D. 827 Entracte No. 3 from Rosamunde, D. 797 Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 7:30pm To purchase your tickets, visit: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall/