La Scena Musicale Announces 2025-26 Season

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La Scena Musicale is pleased to announce its 2025-26 season, its 30th year of publishing: seven issues (six national editions and one bilingual issue for subscribers). We are also working on several Book Magazines on Giacomo Puccini, Gustav Mahler and Handel’s Messiah.

Details:

Founding Editor-in-chef and Publisher: Wah Keung Chan
Assistant Editor: Gianmarco Segato
Section Editors: Nathalie de Han (Theatre, Dance), Felix-Antoine Hamel (Jazz & Global Music)
Art Director (covers): Tom Inoue
Languages: The national issues will have separate English and French editions.
Two covers: The national issue of La Scena Musicale will have two different covers, one for the English edition and the second for the French edition.
Paper: Glossy colour.
Copies: 60,000 to 70,000 for national issues
Distribution Mix: national newspapers and street distribution
- Newspaper subscribers: Insert into Montreal Gazette, Le Devoir, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Globe & Mail, National Post
- Street Distribution: In Montreal and Quebec City
- Partner Distribution: At concerts of music partners
- Regions:
  - Montreal, Quebec City and Toronto: 6 national issues
  - Ottawa: 4 issues, September, November, April and June
  - Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary: 1 issue, October; plus new Western Microsite
Advertising rates: 3% increase in rates from the previous year
Calendar: Concert listings are free for the print magazine and website and can be submitted online at mySCENA.org. See info.
- NEW Enhanced calendar for year-long partners and advertisers.

Spotlights

Fall Festivals (September)
Winter Festivals (November)
Spring Festivals (April)
International Festivals (April)
Summer Festivals (June)
Baroque (November)
Orchestras (February)
Operas and Voice (April)

Resource Guides

Venue Guide (September)
Competition Guide (October)
Camp Guide (February)
Choir Guide (April)

Columns (NEW)

La Scena: The Art of Living

Music and Fashion (the confluence of art and fashion)
La Scena à table (artists & their favourite recipes)
Cityscape: focus (local arts insider takes on their favourite spots to eat, drink, perform & get inspire)
- Vancouver (October)
- Toronto (November)
- Quebec City (February)
- Montreal (April)
- Ottawa (June)

The six La Scena Musicale issues (national editions) in 2025-26 are:

September (*Special Theme: La Rentrée Culturelle, Piano, Youth Programs)
October (*Special Theme: Wind instruments, Fundraising, Rising Stars, Vancouver)
November (National Edition, separate English and French editions; *Special Theme: Higher Education, Baroque, Music and the Brain, Toronto)
February/March (*Special Theme: Orchestras and Conductors, Love, Black History Month, International Women’s Day, Quebec City)
April/May (*Special Theme: Violin, Voice and Opera, Asian Heritage, Montreal)
June/July/August (National Edition, separate English and French editions, *Special Theme: National Indigenous Peoples Day, Travel, Ottawa)