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Les Grands Ballets: Cinderella
Les Grands Ballets will take the stage at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier with their production of Cinderella. With music by Sergei Prokofiev, and choreographed by Australian choreographer Jayne Smeulders, the production will feature the Grands Ballets Orchestra, directed by Dina Gilbert, and all-new sets and costumes, designed by Simon Guilbault and Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt, respectively (Sept. 8-10). www.placedesarts.com
Les Boréades de Montréal: Maestro Mozart
Following the success of their album, Maestrino Mozart, Les Boréades, led by soprano Marie-Ève Munger, will open their 2023-24 season with Maestro Mozart. On the program are excerpts of the composer’s most famous operas, all orchestrated for chamber ensemble. Among them are selections from Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Magic Flute. The performance will take place at the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel (Sept. 9). www.boreades.com
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal: The Rite of Spring
Montreal’s Symphony Orchestra is celebrating 90 years of performances this fall, and will open the year with a bang. On the program are Janáček’s Messe glagolitique, and Stravinsky’s bombastic The Rite of Spring. Conducted by Rafael Payare, the performances will feature: soprano Camilla Tilling; contralto Rose Naggar-Tremblay; tenor Ladislav Elgr, making his debut with the OSM; bass Matthew Rose; organist Jean-Willy Kunz; and the OSM Chorus, conducted by Andrew Megill (Sept. 12-14). www.placedesarts.com
Orchestre classique de Montréal: Across the Americas with Marc Djokic
OCM’s concertmaster, Marc Djokic, will be joined by pianist Julien LeBlanc and the OCM’s string quartet for a concert titled “Across the Americas,” featuring works by John Corigliano, and Philip Glass of the United States, Canadian Christos Hatzis, and Astor Piazzolla of Argentina. Combined, these works hope to reflect the variety of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire (Sept. 21). www.orchestre.ca
I Musici: Alain Lefèvre and Mozart
Conducted by Jean-François Rivest, pianist Alain Lefèvre and violinist Hubert Brizard will take the stage at UQAM’s Salle Pierre-Mercure for I Musici’s 40th anniversary season. On the program are J.S. Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041, and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595, and his Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550. (Sept. 21). www.pierre-mercure.uqam.ca
Clavecin en Concert: A Celebration of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours
Clavecin en Concert, directed by harpischordist Luc Beauséjour, will present “French Baroque Music in the Age of the Builders,” to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel. The concert will feature works by Michel Blavet, François Couperin, Jean-Marie Leclair, and Jean-Philippe Rameau, performed by soprano Catherine St-Arnaud, flutist Grégoire Jeay, violinists Noémy Gagnon-Lafrenais and Mélanie de Bonville, and viola de gambist Margaret Little alongside Beaséjour himself (Sept. 22). www.clavecinenconcert.com
Bourgie Hall: Dover Quartet
Following their first performance at Bourgie Hall in 2021, the Dover Quartet will return to one of Montreal’s most beloved stages to open Bourgie’s 2023-24 season. Violinists Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violist Julianne Lee, and cellist Camden Saw will interpret Haydn’s String Quartet, Op. 74, No. 3 “Rider,” Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 1 in G major, and Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 9, Op. 117 (Sept. 27). www.mbam.qc.ca
Orchestre symphonique de Laval: L’âme slave
The Orchestre Symphonique de Laval will open its 2023-24 season with a program titled “L’âme slave” (The Slavic Soul). Conducted by Thomas Le Duc-Moreau, joined by piano soloist Serhiy Salov, the orchestra will perform works by Tchaikovsky alongside the overture of Rouslan and Ludmilla, by Mikhaïl Glinka (Sept. 27). www.osl.ca
Théâtre Outremont: Beth McKenna
Opus prize winner Beth McKenna is recognized nationally as one of the most exciting jazz musicians on the Montreal scene, working at the intersection of jazz and popular musics. At the Théâtre Outremont, she will perform Beyond Here which engages with contemporary global issues through music. Composer, saxophonist, and flutist, she will be joined by vocalist Sarah Rossy, pianist Guillaume Martineau, guitarist François Jalbert, bassist Olivier Babaz, and percussionist Peter Colantonio (Oct. 1). www.theatreoutremont.ca
Flûte Alors!: Works by Johannes Ciconia
Montreal’s own recorder quartet, Flûte Alors! will be joined by Ensemble Alkemia as they start of the year with a performance of works by Johannes Ciconia—one of the most influential composers of the late-Renaissance and early-baroque periods. Additionally, the program will feature new works composed specifically for these two ensembles, inspired by the musical style of Ciconia (Oct. 28). www.flutealors.com
St. Lawrence Choir: Chants d’honneur
Conducted by Philippe Bourque, the St Lawrence Choir will take the stage at the Sainte-Geneviève Church in Pierrefonds, Que., to perform works by Bach, Barber, Britten and Bruckner in their Rememberance Day concert, Chants d’honneur (Nov. 11). www.choeur.qc.ca
Canoe: An Opera in Two Acts
Unsettled Scores productions, Native Earth Performing Arts, The Toronto Consort, and Theatre Passe Muraille have joined forces to produce an all-new two-act opera at Trinity St-Paul’s Centre. Canoe will showcase four Indigenous singers, accompanied by historic instruments (violin, cello, recorder, lute, and harpsichord). The work was written by Unsettled Scores founders Spy Dénommé-Welch (who also wrote the libretto) and Catherine Magowan (Sept. 12-16). www.torontoconsort.org
Tafelmusik: A Beethoven Bonanza
The inimitable Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra will kick off its 45th anniversary with a concert of all-things Beethoven. Conducted by Bruno Weil, the orchestra will interpret Beethoven’s Prometheus Overture, followed by his Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, and finally his Symphony No. 5 in C minor. Audiences are sure to delight in the orchestra’s expert interpretation of these masterworks played on gut strings, period winds, and natural brass. (Sept. 22, 23, 24). www.tafelmusik.org
Music in the Afternoon: Fauré Quartett
Coming up this fall, the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto will present the opening performance of their 2023-24 season at the University of Toronto’s Walter Hall. The Fauré Quartett, consisting of pianist Dirk Mommertz, violinist Erika Geldsetzer, violist Sasha Frömbling, and cellist Konstantin Heidrich, will perform Beethoven’s Piano Quartet, Op. 16, Max Reger’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op 113, or No. 2 in A minor, Op. 133, and Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45 (Oct. 5). www.wmct.on.ca
Amadeus Choir of Toronto: Nosferatu
The Amadeus Choir celebrates its 50th anniversary season with a special, Halloween-themed concert presentation of the 1922 silent film Nosferatu. The famous silent film will be paired with Juno-nominated composer and bassist Andrew Downing’s soundtrack, performed by the choir and a nine-piece jazz combo (Oct. 20). www.amadeuschoir.com
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