Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for May 2017: CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA The prolific Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal presents many must-see shows at the Maison Symphonique: The OSM’s Grammy-winning music director, Maestro Kent Nagano, will conduct the orchestra in Bernstein: From West Side Story to A Quiet Place (Leonard Bernstein was one of Nagano’s personal […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for April 2017: CLASSICAL MUSIC A pairing generating a lot of buzz is famed British conductor Sir Andrew Davis who will direct pianist Louis Lortie and the OSM in a program that includes Chopin, Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11, and Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 6 in […]
Here are some Montreal arts and culture highlights for March 2017: CLASSICAL MUSIC AND OPERA Hands-down the most buzzed-about Montreal production of the year, the hotly-anticipated world-premiere of the Another Brick In The Wall – The Opera, commissioned by the Opéra de Montréal and based on Roger Waters’ legendary work The Wall, opens at Salle Wilfred-Pelletier at Place […]
Here are some Montreal arts and culture highlights for February 2017: MUSEUMS The blockbuster exhibition Chagall: Colour and Music at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts features some 500 works and documents—paintings, collages, watercolours, sculptures, stained glass windows and ceramics—which show how the aesthetic and artistic world of famed Russian-French artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is imbued with […]
Here are some Montreal arts and culture highlights for January 2017: The year kicks off with the Broadway touring production of the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots which headlines Salle Wilfred-Pelletier from Jan. 3 to 8. After winning Best Original Score at the 2013 Tony Awards, Cyndi Lauper told me, “I didn’t stop to think I was the first woman to win that award […]
No city is lit up and festive quite like sparkling Montreal during the holiday season, not even New York City. Here are some Montreal holiday-themed highlights for arts and culture fans, families, indoors and outdoors, many of them free. Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal’s famed production of The Nutcracker returns to Salle Wilfred-Pelletier for the 53rd […]
Danse Danse is the finest showcase for contemporary dance in Montreal and their much-anticipated 2016-2017 season features 11 productions, from renowned international companies to young and exciting choreographers. Danse Danse kicks off their 19th season at Place des Arts with the great María Pagés, international icon of flamenco. In her piece Yo, Carmen, Pagés is accompanied by eight […]
The new General Director of the Opéra de Montréal, Patrick Corrigan, fresh from a 20-year stint at the Pacific Opera Victoria where he was CEO, is thrilled to be back in his hometown of Montreal. “I’m the kind of guy who stands outside Place des Arts and dreams of being inside,” says the proudly bilingual […]
The Opéra de Montréal presents the Richard Strauss one-act opera Elektra with superstar conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the helm, at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts, with American soprano and “down-to-earth diva” Lise Lindstrom making her company debut as Elektra. Curtains Up attended a recent OdeM rehearsal for Elektra where Lindstrom sat down for a fun and frank Q&A.
Canadian 1980s pop icon Luba smiles when she recalls the day she performed in front of 12,000 rock fans at the Montreal Forum in January 1983. “Montreal shows have always been nerve-racking because it’s my hometown, but this show was crazier because it was my first big show, I was opening for Chris de Burgh […]