Coming events

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Sunday, June 19, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – What better way to tell stories than with music! Let the musicians of the Festival Classica Orchestra plunge you into the richly hued tales of Rossini’s Joan of Arc cantata and Casella’s La femme serpent! With soloists Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Stéphane Tétreault (cello), and Élisabeth Pion (piano). Conducted by Alain Trudel.

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Friday, June 17, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil and Alexandre Da Costa invite you to reexperience the mesmerizing film scores of legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone. Hear selections from Once Upon a Time in the West, Cinema Paradiso, The Mission and many others that have left their mark on the history of cinema. Let yourself be enraptured by […]

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Friday, June 17, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm – Les Idées heureuses and Les Jardins Chorégraphiques present a showcase of music by the enigmatic Italian composer Francesco Geminiani. Through his instrumental repertoire for harpsichord and English guitar (cittra), his Scottish folk tunes, and his ballet The Enchanted Forest (1761), discover the surprising range of compositions by this master of the Baroque period, in a […]

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Thursday, June 16, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm – Pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre presents a concert of moving intensity featuring works by the brilliant composer Nino Rota, best known for his soundtrack to the film The Godfather. He will perform some of the composer’s most popular and best-loved film music, as well as some lesser-known pieces from the classical solo piano repertoire. During the second […]

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm – Co-artistic directors of the innovative Festival Unisson, the young musicians cellist Agnès Langlois and pianist Élisabeth Pion finally unite on stage for a collaborative recital. Join them on a stroll through the Italy of Leonarda, Vivaldi, Busoni, Sollima, Berio, and Respighi.

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Sunday, June 12, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm – Discover the splendours of Italian baroque music in this concert featuring works by Frescobaldi, Vivaldi, Bertali, Bassano and Tartini. With soloists Alain Trudel (sackbut and trombone), Antoine Bareil (violin) and Luc Beauséjour (harpsichord).

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Sunday, June 12, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm – Cellist Elinor Frey invites five musicians to join her in exploring the charm and lyrical beauty of Boccherini. Rising star soprano Sophie Naubert sings the Stabat Mater, one of the composer’s most beloved works. The string quintet will perform the composer’s Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid and his elegant Cello Concerto in G major.

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Saturday, June 11, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm – The Stabat Mater is a hymn to Mary, which portrays her suffering at the foot of the cross during the crucifixion of her son, Jesus Christ. The text has been set to music by numerous composers in both elaborate and intimate settings. The versions penned by Giovanni Felice Sances and Alessandro Scarlatti, while very different, […]

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Friday, June 10, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm – The concert Luce & Ombra (Light and Shadow) presents a compilation of Ensemble Mirabilia’s favourite vocal and instrumental works by the celebrated Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi. The selections for this program showcase the composer’s range of contrasting styles: light and dark, happiness and sadness, exuberant joy and despair—all performed with the distinctive characteristics that define […]

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Thursday, June 9, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm – The Arion Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of French violinist Florence Malgoire, presents Vivaldi’s famed Four Seasons in a concert that also features the music of Nicolo Porpora, one of Italy’s best known opera composers of his time.

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Wednesday, June 8, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm – Chrysanthemums, a sublime elegy for strings, is a short piece that Puccini wrote in one night upon learning of the unexpected death of a friend. Also on the program, hear the two quartets by Italian prodigy Ferruccio Busoni. Though only four years separate these quartets, we witness an astonishing evolution between the two masterpieces. With […]