Artistic director Renaud Loranger unveiled this week the program for the popular classical music festival, which will be launched on July 6 by Nicolas Ellis and the Orchester de l’Agora at the Fernand-Lindsay outdoor amphitheatre.
In total, 14 concerts have been scheduled on the enchanting site of Joliette. In addition to the Agora Orchestra, we will be able to see, among others, the Violons du Roy, the Diotima quartet, the Friborg Baroque Orchestra and the Grands Ballets Canadiens (who will dance on the Fifth by Beethoven).
Rafael Payare and his OSM musicians will make their presence felt this summer with four concerts. They will perform the symphonic poem by Richard Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra (July 19); a Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov evening with Israeli pianist Yoav Levanon (July 20); The boleroby Ravel and Poem for violin and orchestra by Ernest Chausson (August 2); and the Symphony no 7 by Mahler (August 3).
For its part, OM, directed by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will close the festival on August 4 with the opera Aida by Verdi. A few days before, YNZ will conduct pianist Marc-André Hamelin who will perform the two piano concertos by Franz Liszt, as well as works by Brahms, Academic openness And Symphony no 4 (July 28).
Five concerts have also been scheduled in historic churches in the Lanaudière region, and six others “outside the walls”, where we will be able to see mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter perform a repertoire of Swedish folk music (July 25 ). She will also be at the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay on July 27 to perform songs by Barbara, Michel Legrand, Léo Ferré, Charles Trenet and Georges Moustaki.
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