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Montréal
GERMAN WALTZES AND LATIN PSALMS
April 11 at 7:30 p.m. – Maison symphonique
For the 10th edition of Opus concerts, Chœur Métropolitain presents Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Brahms’s Liebeslieder-Walzer and Neue Liebeslieder. Pianists Pierre McLean and Louise Pelletier will accompany the choir.
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ARCHES: ARMENIA
April 26 at 4 p.m. ; May 1, 2 and 9 at 7 p.m. – Various venues in Montreal
Vocal ensemble Les Rugissants continues its Arches series exploring the history, music and architecture of important communities in Montreal. This series of concerts looks at the culture of Armenia with choral works by Sharafyan, Mansourian and Hovhannisyan, among others.
HEAVENLY SOUNDS
May 2 at 7:30 p.m. – Église Saint-Enfant-Jésus in Mile-End
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Voix de la Montagne will host conductor Karen Kapferer as well as singers from Ensemble vocal des Cévennes and Académie Akarena to present Échos célestes, a sacred-themed concert. Accompanied by chamber orchestra, they will perform a variety of works including a Pater Noster by Dan Forrest and a Requiem by Bruno Dufresne, leader of the host choir. Soloists are soprano Odéi Bilodeau and baritone Marc-Antoine d’Aragon.
ECLECTIC BAROQUE
May 9 at 3 p.m. – Chapelle du Fort de la Montagne
Nouvel ensemble vocal (NEV) de la Renaissance, led by its Music and Artistic Director Marc-Olivier Lacroix, present Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis by Jan Dismas Zelenka, the Czech baroque composer whose works have found a new audience after falling into neglect after his death. Works by Fux, Gallus, Lotti and Bach fill out the program.
A LEGEND OF OLD QUEBEC
May 30 at 7:30 p.m. – Théâtre Outremont
Chœur St-Laurent presents a program devoted to Canadian choral repertoire led by guest conductor Gabrielle Gaudreault. The first half features works by Marie-Claire Saindon, Maurice Dela and Lionel Daunais. The second half will present the Quebec premiere of La Chasse-Galerie by Rémi Saint-Jacques, written for choir, piano and percussion, and inspired by the Quebec legend of the same name.
Quebec City
HANDEL, DIXIT DOMINUS
April 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.m. – Palais Montcalm
May 3 at 4 p.m. – Maison symphonique (Montreal)
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La Chapelle de Québec, conducted by Bernard Labadie, presents one of Handel’s greatest choral works, Dixit Dominus. Also on the program are Bach’s motet Jesu, meine Freude and Tristis est anima mea by Kuhnau.
ON BROADWAY
May 16 at 7:30p.m. – Palais Montcalm
Under the baton of David Rompré, Les Rhapsodes present selections from popular musicals, including The Sound of Music, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Starmania, Notre-Dame de Paris and Nelligan. Singers Gabrielle Lapointe and David Latulippe will join the choir.
CARMINA BURANA
May 27, 28 and 29 at 8 p.m. – Grand Théâtre de Québec
Conducted by Clemens Schuldt, Orchestre symphonique Québec and its chorus are joined by students from Conservatoire de musique de Québec, the music faculty of Université Laval and Maîtrise des Petits chanteurs de Québec. The combined forces present Carl Orff’s cantata, Carmina Burana, preceded by the world premiere of a piece by Quebec composer Éric Morin. Soprano Claire de Sévigné, countertenor Daniel Taylor and baritone Hugo Laporte are the soloists.
Toronto
THE SACRED VEIL
April 25 at 7:30 p.m. – Metropolitan United Church
Toronto Mendelssohn Singers, led by Jean-Sébastien Vallée, present a concert in the form of a vigil to mark cancer-awareness month. The program features The Sacred Veil, a highly personal work by Eric Whitacre, exploring the link between love and mourning. The concert also includes the world premiere of Mystical Hope by Stephanie Martin.
BOTH SIDES NOW
May 13 at 7:30 p.m. – Eastminster United Church
Toronto Choral Society, conducted by Geoffrey Butler, will give a concert devoted to 1960s folk music including works by Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot and Leonard Cohen as well as excerpts from the Broadway hits Hair and Godspell. A chance to relive the atmosphere of the hippy movement!
RESURRECTION − MAHLER 2
June 6 at 7:30 p.m. − George Weston Recital Hall in the Meridian Arts Centre
Orchestra Toronto will host the Orpheus Choir of Toronto and RESOUND Choir to close its 2025–26 season with Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 known as the ‘Resurrection.’ With its themes of death, renewal and spiritual awakening, it redefined symphonic norms and showed how music can respond to existential questions. Soprano Leslie Ann Bradley and mezzo-soprano Simona Genga are the soloists.
Translation: Cecilia Grayson
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