Yannick Week at the Met – November 16-22, 2020 Online LiveEvents November 11, 2020 1076 ...issions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers. Canadian-born conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin became the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director with the beginning of the 2018–19 season, during which he conducted a new production of Verdi’s La Traviata, revivals of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, and concerts with the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. He made his company debut in 2009 with a new product...
An exciting summer for the Orchestre Métropolitain and its conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin The Montrealer July 17, 2019 1383 ...t and Granby. Besides these four concerts, the Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin was part of the festivities on June 27 surrounding the inauguration of Espace 67 at Parc Jean-Drapeau; titled L’OM Grandeur Nature. The Orchestra also performed in June as part of Festival Classica in TMR and at Maison Symphonique for Le Festival des Francofolies. Front and centre at major festivals The Orchestre Métropolitain returns for a number of co...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin – signs lifetime contract with Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain Peter Kerr October 11, 2019 4091 ...al Minister of Cultural Affairs Mélanie Joly, and other elected officials. Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Orcehestre Métropolitain during their first performance of the 2019-2020 season. It’s been a remarkable journey for the son of two Montreal academics, who started playing piano at five and then at age ten, decided that he wanted to be an orchestra conductor. On that bright sunny September morning, there was a refreshing enthusiasm in the air....
Winterreise – Joyce DiDonato and Yannick Nézet-Séguin LiveEvents April 23, 2021 1249 ...pertoire can be credited to DiDonato’s partner for this recording, pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who suggested Schubert’s cycle to take on their recital tour together. DiDonato admitted that she had never considered taking on Winterreise: “For me, that belonged to other people.” With Nézet-Séguin’s encouragement, she spent time exploring the material and became fascinated with the woman in the story, “the survivor”. “But what about her? The woman...
From Piano to Podium with Yannick Nézet-Séguin – free rebroadcast LiveEvents January 15, 2022 1324 ...ebroadcast From Piano to Podium: Mozart & Brahms with Yannick Nézet-Séguin Yannick Nézet-Séguin brings Mozart’s lyrical and bright Piano Concerto No. 12 to life in a rare appearance as both conductor and soloist with the OM. The concerto is followed by Brahms’s third symphony—a sweet, melodic continuation of the OM’s Brahms symphony cycle. The free-spirited but joyful symphony opens strong with three chords, setting the tone for a compact and unif...
The Orchestre Métropolitain launches its 2019-2020 season: In Perfect Harmony The Montrealer March 20, 2019 3055 ...mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. In a unique presentation, Conductor Yanniack Nezet-Seguin will be the pianist accompanying the soloist in Mozart’s concert aria Ch’io mi scordi di te. The new season will also feature a first coproduction with the Opéra de Montréal: Beethoven’s Fidelio, the composer’s only opera. Yannick Nézet-Séguin has assembled a prestigious international cast for the occasion, which will be presented in a concert version as a prel...
Season Closing Concert with Yannick Nézet-Séguin LiveEvents June 11, 2022 1012 ...stre Métropolitain presents Closing Concert with Yannick Nézet-Séguin Join Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho for a performance of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2, a romantic yet bold dialogue between piano and orchestra. The soloist won the Frédéric-Chopin International Piano Competition in 2015, and OM audiences had the opportunity to discover him at the Festival de Lanaudière in 2019. Considered one of the composer’s finest earl...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin hosts Stéphane Tétreault – November 20-27, 2020 LiveEvents November 15, 2020 1016 ...oloist-in-Residence of the Orchestre Métropolitain, he performed alongside Yannick Nézet-Séguin during the 2014-2015 season. In 2016, Stéphane made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Nézet-Séguin and performed at the prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland. During the 2017-2018 season, he took part in the Orchestre Métropolitain’s first European tour with Maestro Nézet-Séguin performing the Elgar Ce...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin among the 50 most important people according to Maclean’s The Montrealer January 2, 2015 3921 ...ick Nézet-Séguin among the 50 most important people according to Maclean’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain, is one of the 50 most important people in Canada according to Maclean’s Magazine. This second edition of the magazine’s annual list, compiled by its writers and editors, was published on November 21. It includes figures from the realms of business, politics and culture. Alongside...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin: Romantic Treasures LiveEvents October 24, 2021 1086 ...Farrenc was a masterful composer and heir to Beethoven. Under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the OM’s explosive performance of the Symphony No. 3 bolsters Farrenc’s legacy as a noteworthy composer. OM violist Elvira Misbakhova and clarinetist Simon Aldrich take centre stage, performing show-stopping solos in Max Bruch’s Concerto for Clarinet and Viola. The instruments’ timbres come together beautifully, enchanting the audience from the first n...
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