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The Conservatoire’s Opera Workshop presents Cendrillon, by Jules Massenet
For their major lyrical production of the year, the students of the Conservatoire de musique turn into princes, princesses, godmothers and stepmothers in this adaptation by Jules Massenet of Charles Perreault’s tale. Up there with Werther and Manon among the composer’s greatest successes, Cendrillon seduces with its lyricism, its emblematic tunes (“Que mes soeurs sont heureuses”, “Ah! douce enfant”, and “Enfin, je suis ici”), its sparkling colours and its streak of humour treated with delicacy and elegance in music by the composer. This musical fairy tale is presented three evenings with two distinct casts.
ARTISTS AND PROGRAM
L’Atelier d’opéra du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in collaboration with l’Orchestre du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal
Jacques Lacombe, musical director
Romain Pollet, leader and director
Isabeau Proulx-Lemire, production designer
Jules Massenet: Cendrillon
Jazz
(Cancelled) Amir Amiri and Jean-Michel Pilc
The santur is a struck string instrument, just like the cimbalom and the piano, of which it is a sort of ancestor. As several of its strings can be played simultaneously and successively in “open chord”, it offers a great wealth of resonances and harmonics, which predisposes it to modal music. It is therefore very well suited to jazz improvisation, which both instrumentalists indulge in with renewed pleasure. Amir and Jean-Michel indeed crossed swords for the first time during an improv duo set last November.
Indie Rock
(CANCELLED) Best Coast • Mannequin Pussy
Folk Rock / Indie Rock / Pop
(POSTPONED) Theo Katzman • Rett Madison
Dark Ambient / Doom Metal / Drone / Experimental / Contemporary
UXVAE • Skin • Girl Circles • Alekto
The Schulich Chamber Choir
The Schulich Chamber Choir performs a masterful work by the English composer James Whitbourn (born 1963). Annelies, premiered in 2005 by Leonard Slatkin and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, is a work in 14 sections for soprano, choir and orchestra, based on texts from The Diary of Anne Frank. In 2009, the composer also made a version for ensemble (violin, cello, clarinet and piano) so that the work can travel more easily. Soprano Sarah Dufresne will be the soloist and the work will be conducted by Jean-Sébastien Vallée, artistic and musical director of the choir.
PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME
Schulich Chamber Choir
Jean-Sébastien Vallée : artistic director and leader
Sarah Dufresne: soprano
With instrumental chamber ensemble
James Whitbourn: Annelies (from The Diary of Anne Frank)
Concert in memory of Susan Aberman
House
(POSTPONED) Dombresky
Persian Classical / West African Traditional