Even the toughest winters end with spring blossoms. Culture persists even when war breaks out, often coming back even stronger. Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv, will introduce audiences to Eastern European masterpieces, including a symphonic poem by the most famous Ukrainian composer, Boris Lyatoshinsky.

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Slavic Spring

Centre Leonardo Da Vinci

Place des Arts

The OM’s musicians are coming together with actors to celebrate the year’s holidays through music. For Halloween, young audience members will be treated to a spine-tingling percussion and brass performance. Valentine’s Day will delight families with lovely string melodies. And for Mother’s Day, harp and woodwinds will honour mothers, grandmothers and mothers-in-law.

Springtime Music (family concert)

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

This major turning point is illustrated in this two-part program. First, her roots can be found in the works of South American composers and poets. Then, she tackles Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, the piece that helped make her famous when she conducted it at the final round of the 2021 Victoires de la Musique. 

Under Marcano’s Sun

St. Joachim of Pointe-Claire Church

Gershwin’s Cuban Overture and melodies from Bernstein’s West Side Story showcase Latin America’s electrifying influence on symphonic music. The fiesta will continue in Havana’s colourful streets with Amadeo Roldán’s Tres pequeños poemas and the Latin Concerto written by our wonderful guest soloist, pianist and composer Gabriela Montero.

Latin Fiesta

The Chœur Métropolitain will delight audiences with every choral ensemble’s favourite piece: Carmina Burana. At once powerful, dramatic, playful and measured, these secular cantatas were inspired by medieval poems and set to music in 1936 by Carl Orff. A joy to sing and listen to, particularly in their arrangement for piano and percussion!

Chœur Métropolitain: Carmina Burana

Three musical tales are told by Barbada over an original musical score, performed for the first time by Orchestre Métropolitain musicians. Follow the adventures of three friends as they travel through the forest and across seasons to find the famous multicolour dewdrops whose music lifts people’s spirits.

Exhilarating Summer

Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

Orchestre Métropolitain musicians come together to perform a work written by one of their own, French horn player Simon Bourget. His sextet for piano and wind quintet will be followed by two major pieces for piano and winds from the repertoire: the charming and elegant sextet by Francis Poulenc and a sextet written by his lesser-known predecessor, Austrian Ludwig Thuille.

Winds of the Orchestre Métropolitain

One of Montréal’s greatest composers left us at the beginning of 2023. José Evangelista left an impression on Quebec culture both through his music and the many composers and musicians he taught. The OM and its conductor will pay him one last tribute with a performance of Alap & Gat to close the season. 

Mahler’s Sixth

It has developed into a Lanaudière tradition: the summer reunion of two of Quebec’s most acclaimed musicians, to whom we owe some of the finest highlights of our Festival in recent years. This time around, they concentrate on not just one, but two outrageously demanding piano concertos by Franz Liszt, performed back-to-back by Marc-André Hamelin who revels in their challenges with uncanny ease. To complement these two flagships of pianistic virtuosity, the concert also offers the profound introspection and yearning Romanticism of Johannes Brahms. 

Nézet-Séguin and Hamelin: Again Reunited

Festival International de Lanaudière

Aida is among Verdi’s most emblematic operas—unquestionably one of the most beloved of the entire repertoire. This monument combines ill-fated love and political intrigue with the allure of ancient Egypt. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a world-class vocal cast in this opulent conclusion to the Festival’s 47th edition, a few months before opening a new production of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera. 

Aida en clôture de saison

In Te Deum, Bruckner is a musical architect building a veritable cathedral—a grand monument chiselled to perfection and brimming with devotion. As he was unable to complete his ninth and final symphony, he suggested that Te Deum replace its last movement. The result, performed by four internationally renowned soloists and the Chœur Métropolitain, is simply majestic.

Legendary Figures

The uncontested master of the symphony, Beethoven left his mark on music in a way few composers have. With four concerts in three days, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will deliver his vision of these bold classics that continue to dazzle audiences 250 years later. It’s sure to be a marathon to remember!

Heroic Beethoven

Pastoral Beethoven

Fateful Beethoven

The Music-Loving Witch (family concert)

From his planet to ours, the audience will follow the celebrated prince on his adventures as he meets the businessman, the lamplighter, the fox and, of course, the pilot. The musical works that accompany his travels bring the characters to life, adding a new dimension to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s philosophical tale.

The Little Prince (family concert)

Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is a timeless character. Eternally young, he changes lives and genders but remains fascinated by art. While the novel tells the history of English literature, the theatrical adaptation—incorporating symphonic music and directed by the great Lorraine Pintal—delves into the evolution of music.

Eternal Orlando

Église Notre-Dame de la Recluse

Mercier Public Library

Église Sainte-Claire

Following the resounding success of the first Holiday Melodies concert in 2022, it has become one of the OM’s most anticipated events. More than your typical Christmas concert, it’s an occasion for different genres and cultures to come together. With the Taurey Butler Trio and the voices of Mélissa Bédard, Kim Richardson, and the Chœur Métropolitain, under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the concert will feature the convergence of Québécois, American and European traditions with jazz and classical styles. Antoine Gratton’s arrangements harmonize memories from all these musical worlds that contribute to Quebec’s unique culture.

Holiday Melodies

Some pieces never lose their lustre, and Handel’s Messiah is no exception. After the resounding success of last year’s performance, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the OM are back to perform this musical gem in the majestic Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal.

Handel’s Messiah

Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal

In Glazunov’s composition, the cello—played by the up-and-coming internationally renowned soloist Bryan Cheng—sings like a melancholic minstrel of courtly romance in the Middle Ages. Then, with Rococo Variations, the instrument becomes a chameleon, changing its voice with utmost virtuosity to develop Tchaikovsky’s theme, inspired by 18th-century music. 

Russian Dolls

Salle Marguerite-Bourgeoys

After his successful debut with the OM, Austrian Christoph Koncz is back to conduct Stravinsky’s The Firebird. The orchestra will carry this fiery energy into a brilliant performance of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. Each stand comes alive with treats for the eyes and ears!

Fiery Flight

Cupid and the Song of the Heart (family concert)

The great pianist Christian Blackshaw, a Bourgie Hall regular, will join OM chamber musicians to perform three of the most beautiful pieces for small ensembles by Mahler, Franck and Dvořák.

Christian Blackshaw in quintet

Yannick Nézet-Séguin interprets Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, “The Great,” an imposing yet deeply personal work. Christian Blackshaw, a contemporary Mozart masters, delivers a crystal clear rendition of the composer’s work. With Piano Concerto No. 24, our artist-in-residence highlights Mozart’s ability to convey the depth of human emotion through music.

Soulful Greats

Cégep Marie Victorin

Baroque specialist Fabio Biondi takes the audience back through the centuries to revisit some of the most influential composers in music history. The journey begins with Corelli, who laid the foundation for modern violin technique and inspired his contemporaries across Europe.

Baroque Journey

Ville de Montréal

Église catholique Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs

At the turn of the 20th century, Paris hosted the Universal Exposition, making it a major cultural capital. Some of the biggest names in music, painting, literature and dance attended. Don’t miss this charming event celebrating the Belle Époque in Paris!

Paris, 1900

Regardless of where you come from, prepare to float down the river with Indigenous composer Barbara Assiginaak’s Eko-Bmijwang (As long in time as the river flows), get carried away with Ravel’s La valse, and be dazzled by Saint-Saëns’s Concerto No. 2. Get ready to shed a few tears listening to the heart-wrenching melodies of Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” symphony, which was on the program for Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s debut as the OM’s artistic director 25 years ago. This musical choice is just right for the OM’s second European tour, which will bring music to audiences across the continent.

Orchestre Métropolitain

1 - 2 May, 2024

Slavic Spring

May 11, 2024

Springtime Music (family concert)

15 - 18 May, 2024

Under Marcano’s Sun

May 16, 2024

Latin Fiesta

Jun 1, 2024

Chœur Métropolitain: Carmina Burana

Orchestre Métropolitain

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