August 25, 2009 - This year, the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal celebrates its 29th anniversary, and ten seasons with Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the helm as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor.
The Orchestre will unveil the season’s stellar program on September 14, which kicks off in Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Place des Arts with a program by Richard Strauss, sung by soprano great Barbara Bonney.
In October, the reins will be handed over to Russia, as works of four of the Romantic period’s greatest composers—Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Borodin—will be performed at the Théâtre Maisonneuve before touring across Québec.
Baroque will be showcased in November, with Bach, Hayden and Schumann the honored composers, followed closely by a fourth concert entitled France and Fantasy, which shines the spotlight on three major works of music from the first half of the last century.
The OSM musicians will get us into the Christmas spirit in December, with a performance at Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Accompanied by the OSM choir and soloists from the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, they will perform lyrical masterpieces by Massenet and Puccini.
American pianist Nicholas Angelich will usher in 2010 with the works of Brahms and Bruckner at Place des Arts on January 11. And spring blooms with Youthful Melodies, the seventh concert of the OM’s 29th season, which aims to promote the talent of our young musicians.
The season finale features the orchestra performing Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand, a spectacular, colossal and magisterial work, much like the OM’s 2009-2010 season…
Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal
