Renée Fleming

Renée Fleming Week at the Met – January 11-17, 2021

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...between two women: Renée Fleming as the Marschallin, the mature woman who understands that one day Octavian must leave her; and Christine Schäfer as Sophie, the young girl who unexpectedly captures his heart. Kristinn Sigmundsson is the lecherous Baron Ochs who sets the whirling plot in motion, and Edo de Waart conducts. Thursday, January 14 Rossini’s Armida Starring Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Barry Banks, John Osborn, and Kobie van Rensbu...
LA RISONANZA

La Risonanza – October 28, 2018, Bourgie Hall

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LA RISONANZA The Arte Musica Foundation continues its complete concert presentation of the sacred cantatas of J. S. Bach, one of the world’s most universally admired composers. In keeping with the liturgical cycle, each concert features at least one cantata for the Sunday it was originally composed. Reminder: Short rehearsals take place 45 minutes before each concert and are designed to help you sing along with the final chorale of one of the can...
Renée Fleming

Renée Fleming – August 1, 2020 at 1pm

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...ican soprano Renée Fleming has appeared with all the world’s leading opera companies and orchestras, is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts, four Grammy Awards, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit, the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, and was awarded the titles of Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She is currently Artistic Advisor-at...
Musica Notturna

Musica Notturna – May 3-5, Bourgie Hall

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...he night! Concert program Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644 -1704) Serenade Der Nachtwäcther for strings and continuo Serenada – Allamanda – Aria – Ciacona Der Nachtwäcther – Gavotte– Retirada Antonio Vivaldi (1678 -1741) Sinfonia from the serenade La Senna Festeggiante Allegro – Andante molto – Allegro molto Francesco Barsanti (1690–1775) Concerto no. 1 in G Major for 2 violins, strings and continuo D’après la Sonate Notturne Op.VI de G.B.Sammarti...

Mitsumi Takahashi of CFCF News

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...aying the piano to be therapeutic. It’s a great release from the workday pressures.” Then Mitsumi was off to Vanier College for CEGEP before attending Concordia where she would graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1979. “My parents always placed a high value on education, and I think my mother was disappointed that I didn’t attain a higher post-graduate level.” Mitsumi muses that this may have played a role in motivating her to return...
Beethoven’s Triple Concerto

Beethoven’s Triple Concerto – November 9-10, 2022

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...ory has seen her conducting the orchestras of BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Hessischer Rundfunk, Lyon, Liège, Leipzig, Brussels Philharmonic, Copenhague, Gulbenkian, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, Camerata Salzburg, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonia, H&H society in Boston, etc. Laurence Equilbey has recently conducted Gounod’s Bloody Nun (Opéra Comique), Weber’s Freischütz staged by the...
Documentary Festival

Montreal International Documentary Festival – November 12-22, various locations

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...public housing project in Montreal’s Saint-Michel neighbourhood is a profoundly compassionate work that goes straight to the heart. To close the festival, the RIDM presents one of the most original and acclaimed films of the festival season. Straddling the line between fiction and documentary, Olmo and the Seagull by Petra Costa and Lea Glob takes us inside the lives of an actor couple whose routine is disrupted by pregnancy. A luminous work abou...
Mathieu Lussier - Requiem and Coronation

Requiem and Coronation – March 8-10, 2024

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...ge of 23, she made her debut as a soloist with the Orchestre Métropolitain under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with the Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra at the Konzerthaus in Berlin and with Arion Orchestre Baroque in Montreal. That same year, she won the 2021 edition of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition and she was featured along with other singers in a recording of Massenet’s complete mélodies on the ATMA Classique label. With h...
Electric Revolution - theremin

Electric Revolution – February 10, 2023

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Orchestre Métropolitain presents Electric Revolution Under immense pressure and tormented by aspirations of becoming the greatest Czech composer, Dvorák delivered a jewel of a seventh symphony: complex, cutting and lucid. Opening the program, Wagner revolutionizes the opera overture with the stormy leitmotif of Der Fliegende Holländer. Montréal-based Simon Bertrand’s refined composition for theremin, a fascinating instrument with a sound somewher...