After the stage, the cinema: the concert Stories without words – Symphonic Harmonium was captured for the big screen. It will be presented in Quebec and New Brunswick starting April 11.
“Not all performance halls can accommodate symphony orchestras, but everyone has access to a cinema,” says Nicolas Lemieux, the ambitious producer behind the symphonic adaptation project of Harmonium music.
The concert filmed by director Benoît Giguère took place at Place des Arts in 2022. Conductor Dina Gilbert then directed the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
The film will also show the projections created by Noise Head Studios, which our columnist Mario Girard said were “a major asset” of the show. The trailers also show parts of the staging (including mysterious rabbits) which had left him “perplexed”.
Read the text “Harmonium always under the stars”
This symphonic concert is based on albums whose arrangements are by Serge Fiori and Simon Leclerc. Singers Luce Dufault and Kim Richardson, the Laval Youth Choir and guitarist Sylvain Quesnel are also part of the film, tickets for which are on sale on the site harmoniumsymphonique.com.