The Orchester symphonique de Montréal (OSM) will be back this summer with its traditional Classical Spree.
As every year, the big free concert at the Olympic Park Esplanade will kick off this 10th edition on August 16 at 7:30 p.m. opera arias, while mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard will sing some of the most famous opera arias and violinist Bomsori will perform Waxman’s Carmen fantasie after Bizet.
Rafael Payare will conduct nine of the 26 concerts scheduled during the festival, including the famous Carmina Burana by Orff, which will be presented twice.
Cellist Nicolas Alstaedt and pianist Francesco Piemontesi will be among the artists to be heard, as well as Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano), Godwin Friesen (piano), Paul Merkelo (trumpet), Dina Gilbert (conductor orchestra), Sarah Dufresne (soprano), Margaret Little (viola da gamba), the Obiora Ensemble, the Oktoecho Ensemble and the FILMharmonic Orchestra.
Four major free concerts, hosted by André Robitaille and conducted by Simon Rivard, are also scheduled in the parks from July 26 to 29 — in Montreal (at Jarry Park), Blainville, Brossard and Terrebonne — to the sound of the clarinet and the saxophone by André Moisan, and the voice of Suzanne Taffot.
Around a hundred free activities will also be offered at the Quartier des Spectacles and unveiled on July 6.
Before starting this 10th Classical Spree, the OSM and Rafael Payare will first open the Festival de Lanaudière, on July 7, with Beethoven’s mythical Ninth Symphony, in addition to presenting three other concerts there, on July 8. , 4 and 5 August.
