Newswire | The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) Joins “Symphony.live”

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Montreal, January 25, 2022 — The OSM joins 6 other top international orchestras on the new streaming video platform Symphony.live : Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra (others to be announced soon). More than digital streaming of a concert captured live, its series Symphony Night Live (SNL) offers historical context and lively storytelling around the music, for a richer experience. It offers viewers exclusive interviews, behind the scenes, and unique content where one gets as close as one can possibly get to the music and the performers. This season, the OSM features in four SNL events, in a partnership extending for many years to come.

OSM’S FIRST SNL THIS SEASON AIRS JANUARY 28

Viewers will be treated to a top-quality video recording of the concert Barbara Hannigan and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique hosted by music media personality Frédéric Lambert. Convivial interviews and footage behind the scenes, from backstage into the floodlights, camera transition to the live stage with more fascinating commentary, and the artists’ live reactions as they exit the stage. Viewers also get a close-up of the various “rituals” OSM musicians must follow to prepare for performance, as Frédéric Lambert, microphone in hand, demystifies details of which audiences are not usually aware. Audience feedback at the concert recorded last December 10 completes this full immersion—as if one was right there and a part of it all!

Next OSM’s Symphony Night Live

Saturday, January 28, 2023: BARBARA HANNIGAN AND BERLIOZ’S SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE A classical music icon and specialist of the contemporary repertoire, internationally renowned Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan is the OSM’s guest for this concert.

Saturday, April 8, 2023: NAGANO AND KANTOROW: FROM SIBELIUS TO TCHAIKOVSKY features young French pianist Alexandre Kantorow in Tchaikovsky’s Second Concerto with OSM Conductor Emeritus Kent Nagano, preceded by masterpieces by Pärt and Sibelius.

Saturday, June 24, 2023: RAFAEL PAYARE: FROM ANDALUSIA TO THE PLAINS OF VENEZUELA Heroes Don Quixote (Strauss) and Florentino (Estévez) respectively battle evil and the Devil himself. An exciting new work by Ana Sokolović is given its world premiere. Guest artists are cellist Alisa Weilerstein, tenor Aquiles Machado, baritone Gustavo Castillo and the OSM Chorus.

Saturday, July 8, 2023: CLOSING CONCERT: RAFAEL PAYARE AND MAHLER’S THIRD brings together mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, the OSM Chorus and a children’s choir in this monument of the repertoire concluding the OSM’s 89th season in a blaze of glory.

Viewers can access the OSM’s Symphony Night Live, including its CLOSING CONCERT OF THE 2021–2022 SEASON (see a glimpse here.) by subscribing for a modest price. They also enjoy unlimited streaming of hundreds of performances, background stories, commentaries, and documentaries that zero in on the planet’s best symphony orchestras. Symphony.live is available via popular apps and platforms, including Roku, Fire, Samsung, and LG and online at symphony.live

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