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At the opening of the 2026 edition of the Lanaudière Festival, Nicolas Ellis will conduct the Orchestre de l’Agora for the fourth time as part of the Gala de la Terre, an ecological initiative that raises funds for environmental preservation. The 2026 Lanaudière version of the event will focus its charitable efforts on the Saint Lawrence River, “from Montreal to Gaspésie,” in the words of Nicolas Ellis. $5 per ticket will go into a fund that supports all kinds of conservation initiatives all along the river. For the occasion, a musical program bathed in sounds and colours inspired by nature; Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, the rarely performed Gaspesian Symphony by Claude Champagne, a work for Inuit throat singing and orchestra by Katia Makdissi-Warren, and Ravel sung by soprano Julie Fuchs. I talked about all this with the conductor, Nicolas Ellis.
