Newswire | Clavecin en concert’s Christmas Concert

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Montreal, December 7th, 2022 – The Ensemble Clavecin en concert with the Ensemble Cochléa will give a Christmas Concert on December 16^th at 7:30 pm in the Crypt of St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal. As every year, a festive concert under the theme of the Nativity! The traditional songs that everyone loves to hear and hum are mixed with old French hymns and Christmas songs from different countries. Two very talented young singers, baritone Hugo Laporte and mezzo-soprano Rose Naggar-Tremblay, are accompanied by the instrumental ensemble Clavecin en concert, under the direction of Luc Beauséjour, and the vocal ensemble Cochléa, made up of four superb voices, offers us skillful musical arrangements.

Program

Où s’en vont ces gays bergers, Delalande
Laissez paître vos bêtes, Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Bel astre que j’adore
Noël nouvelet
À minuit fut fait un réveil, Corrette
O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, Le Messie, Haendel
Vergin tutto amor, Durante
Jésus de Nazareth, Gounod
Schlafe, mein Liebster, genieße die Ruh, Oratorio de Noël, Bach
In the bleak midwinter
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Gounod, Jésus de Nazareth
Trois anges sont venus
Ave Maria, Gounod
Agnus Dei, Bizet
What child is this?
Panis angelicus, Franck
Entre le boeuf et l’âne gris
Il est né le divin Enfant
Sainte nuit
Adeste fideles
Les anges dans nos campagnes
Minuit, Chrétiens
Rose Naggar-Tremblay, mezzo-soprano

Rose Naggar-Tremblay, mezzo-soprano

After making her European debut in the title role of Carmen at the Sofia Opera last October, Rose Naggar-Tremblay won first prize in opera at the Enesco Paris Competition, the Canadian Young Opera Hope Scholarship, as well as contracts in Germany, Italy, Korea, Bulgaria and the Netherlands at the Young Opera Ambassadors Gala. At the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal singing competition, she won first prize and the prize for the best interpretation of a Canadian work (for her interpretation of the cycle Healing, of which she is also the author and co-composer with Éric Champagne). She was also awarded a Career Development Grant from the Jeunesses Musicales of Canada Foundation.

Hugo Laporte, baritone

Quebec baritone Hugo Laporte is the winner of numerous competitions, including the Teatro alla Scala Prize at the Belvedere Competition in Austria, the Grand Prize at the OSM Manulife Competition, First Prize at the Canadian Music Competition, and First Prize at the Anthology of Quebec Music Competition. As a “Young Canadian Opera Hope”, he is developing his international career with the support of the Young Lyric Ambassadors. Hugo Laporte will make his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in March 2023 in the roles of Hermann / Schlemil (Les contes d’Hoffmann) alongside Vittorio Grigolo and Ildar Abdrazakov, under the direction of Frédéric Chaslin. He is very active on the opera stage, notably in the roles of Figaro (The Barber of Seville) and Belcore (The Elixir of Love) at the Opéra de Québec, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the role of Escamillo (Carmen) with the Orchestre classique de Montréal and Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle at the Festival Classica. He also participated in the recording of the complete melodies of Jules Massenet on the ATMA Classique label, alongside many renowned opera artists. Also appreciated in the sacred repertoire, he regularly performs works such as Fauré’s Requiem, Brahms’ German Requiem, Duruflé’s Requiem, J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, Gounod’s Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile, and G. Finzi’s In Terra Pax.

Location : Crypt of St. Joseph’s Oratory

Tickets: https://lepointdevente.com/billets/fhj221216001

Price (taxes and ticketing fees included)

Regular: $35 – Seniors: $32 – Students (25 and under): $28

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