The Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal presents its 2007-08 season. For its 27th season, the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal and its artistic director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will present nine concert programs. • Details

2006

December 12, 2006: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Appointed Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2008

The Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal is proud to announce that its Artistic Director and principal Conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will also become Music Director of the prestigious Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2008. • Details

July 31, 2006: Orchestre Métropolitain Welcomes New Directors and Chair to the Board

The Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal is pleased to announce the appointment of Michelle Cormier as Chair of the Board, and René Malo and Donat J. Taddeo as members of the Orchestra’s Board of Directors. • Details

May 25, 2006: Share the Passion!

After a colourful 25th season, maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Artistic Director of the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, ushers in a season that combines continuity and novelty! • Details

May 25, 2006: A busy schedule for the Métropolitain this Spring and Summer

Waiting for our regular season in September there are many occasions to see and hear the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal! • Details

March 15, 2006: Baroque Fire

For the last season of its regular season the Metropolitain turns the clock back to the Baroque with guest conductor and violinist Jeanne Lamon, one of Canada’s greatest specialists in the baroque music. • Details

March 2, 2006: New Atma Classique Release: Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony no 3

ATMA Classique is delighted to announce the release of the first recording of Saint-Saëns’ thrilling Organ Symphony by a Canadian label featuring a Canadian orchestra. • Details

February 13, 2006: The Brahms Love Affair

The Métropolitain’s, its conductor’s, and its audience’s special affinity for the great German composer are by now well known… • Details

January 31, 2006: Night Musics

A program full of poetry, atmosphere, and sensuality…. On the theme of the night, you are invited to travel in music across time and space, from Spain to Austria and France. • Details

January 10, 2006: The Many Faces of the Cello

The desperate lyricism and tragic fate, the undulating rhythms and martial pace of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony are expressed, three quarters of a century later, in the arresting symphony-concerto of Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky’s Russian compatriot. • Details

2005

November 30, 2005: Let yourself be carried away by the greatest choruses from Italian operas!

“Let’s Sing Christmas in Chorus”: A festive concert… An evening where pleasure is enhanced by the discovery of supremely important repertoire. • Details

2004

November 15, 2004: Salon du livre de Montréal

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November 10, 2004: Tchaikovsky and his Idol

The Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal presents Tania Miller, conductor of the Victoria Symphony and young Violinist Caitlin Tully Tchaikovsky and his Idol • Details

October 18, 2004: Yannick Nézet-Séguin au Toronto Symphony Orchestra

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June 10, 2004: Une note de l’OM

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June 7, 2004: The Beethovenian Soul

OM audiences have always appreciated works for choir and orchestra. Montreal concert-goers will undoubtedly welcome Beethoven’s magisterial Missa Solemnis, its intensity and its deep spiritual content. This concert creates a continuity with Verdi’s Requiem (performed in 2001), Haydn’s Seasons (2003), and Brahms’s German Requiem (2004). • Details

June 6, 2004: The Homeland of Prokofiev and Shostakovitch

Prokofiev and Shostakovitch are absolute summits of twentieth-century Russian musical literature. Both composers lived and worked through the Second World War, and both expressed their respective visions of the hostilities: for Shostakovitch, it was tragedy, and for Prokofiev, triumph. Each of the composers’ fifth symphonies counts among their most successful works in the genre. • Details

June 5, 2004: The French Heritage

This program is made up of works whose rich colours and subtle orchestration are the hallmarks of French symphonic writing, and which render all the poetry, exoticism, and exuberance of the repertoire. • Details

June 4, 2004: Make Way for the Musicians of the OM

This concert brings together some of the permanent positions of the Orchestra as featured soloists, giving audiences the opportunity to better appreciate the individual talents of these musicians who they have already come to know in the context of the orchestra. • Details

June 3, 2004: Tchaikovsky and his Idol

This concert will give Montrealers the opportunity to discover two great Canadian talents: young violinist Caitlin Tulley and the young conductor of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Tania Miller. • Details

June 2, 2004: Brahms and his Legacy

OM audiences and Yannick Nézet-Séguin have a special affinity for Brahms. The conductor’s admiration for Brahms knows no bounds, and the composer also made a profound mark on his immediate successor and admirer, Schoenberg, and through him, Webern and Berg. Webern and Berg each deserve a very different kind of attentiveness from the listener. • Details

June 1, 2004: Mahler’s Inspiration

The OM’s Mahler cycle began back in the 2001-2002 season, with the Symphony No. 2, followed by the Symphony No. 3 in 2002, and by Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 in 2003. In its 5th year with the OM, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, wisely choose to present Mahler 5th Symphony to start up the season! • Details