The Ladies’ Morning Musical Club presents

Soprano Karina Gauvin and pianist Michael McMahon

Born in Repentigny, Quebec to parents who were both professional opera singers, soprano Karina Gauvin has been called “the incarnation of a Cleopatra through songs with haunting modulations” (Diapason). At the age of eight she was already singing in the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus. Her repertory spans three centuries, but she is known above all for her striking interpretations of characters in 18th-century operas and oratorios by Vivaldi, Handel, Gluck, Mozart, and others. Whether performing with period instrument ensembles like the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Quebec’s Violons du Roy, or with modern orchestras like the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony, Gauvin is adept at riveting an audience. Her voice “is like a clear, refreshing and inexhaustible spring that darts and sparkles around any ornamental obstacle in its way,” wrote Opera News. Her extensive discography focuses on Baroque repertory, but she is also renowned for Mahler, Debussy and Barber. In 2017 Gauvin was named an Honorary Director of the Art Song Foundation of Canada. From 2020 to 2025 she was Mécénat Musica Artist-in-Residence. Her artistic partner of many years, pianist Michael McMahon, is renowned as one of Canada’s premier accompanists.

Program

HAHN  (1874-1947)
Quand je fus pris au pavillon (1899)
Si mes vers avaient des ailes (1896)
À Chloris (1916)

MAHLER  (1860–1911)
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1892-1893)
V.   Das irdische Leben
IV.  Wer hat dies’ Liedlein erdacht?
VII. Rheinlegendchen
IX.  Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
Lieder und Gesänge (1888)
XII. Scheiden und Meiden

BRITTEN  (1913–1976)
Excerpts from Folk Song Arrangements,
vol. 3 & 4 (1947, 1960)
Avenging and Bright
O Waly, Waly
Come you not from Newcastle?
The Last Rose of Summer
The Plough Boy

CHAMINADE (1857–1944)
Mignonne (1892)
Ce n’est pas la faute (1895)
Je voudrais être (1912)
Viens! mon bien aimé! (1895)
L’Anneau d’argent (1893)
Ne dis pas que l’espoir (1895)
Si j’étais jardinier (1893)
Sombrero (1894)
Te souviens-tu… (1878)

To learn more about Karina Gauvin, visit: www.karinagauvin.com

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For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.lmmc.ca
By telephone, at 514-932-6796, 514-708-6796, Monday to Friday between 10:00am and 4:00pm.
Reservations are recommended as concerts often sell out.
If tickets are still available, they can be purchased at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall box office as of 2:30pm before the concert. Only cash is accepted at the venue.
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