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On June 14, the only Classica 2025 Festival concert on the island of Montreal: Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. It takes place at Saint-Jean-Baptiste church (DETAILS AND TICKETS HERE). Always a crowd favorite, this imposing choral piece will be performed in a version for two pianos and percussion, but of course with a muscular choir, that of the Société philharmonique du Nouveau Monde, some 150 singers. No large orchestra, but new colors and textures that shed new light on the texts. With soloists Alexandre Sylvestre, Ania Hejnar and Jeffrey Carl, Orff’s inexhaustible oeuvre will certainly resound with power. I spoke to artistic director Michel Brousseau.
