The OM in Summer Mode!

May 18, 2023 |

Whether in Montreal’s boroughs, the Eastern Townships, the Laurentians, Lanaudière or Charlevoix… the OM will be out and about!

The Orchestre Métropolitain will be connecting with audiences more than ever this summer. The big free concert at the foot of Mount Royal to be held on August 2 at 8 p.m. (#OMMontRoyal) is the most eagerly awaited event of the summer. Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the concert is a unique opportunity to revel with the OM and 50,000 attendees in one of the city’s iconic settings. An event everyone should experience at least once in their life!

Special guest and virtuoso pianist Alain Lefèvre will illuminate the sublime Rhapsodie romantique pour piano et orchestre, a work by Quebec composer André Mathieu. The passionate themes of Dvořák, magnificent landscapes of Coulthard and boisterous rhythms of Márquez will round out this exhilarating program coloured by many influences, the perfect reflection of a cosmopolitan city like Montreal!

Our musical director and principal conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin will also return to the neighbourhood where he grew up for a concert in Parc Ahuntsic on August 5 at 7:30 p.m. The program for this concert will be slightly different, with Mathieu’s concerto being replaced by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade and the overture to Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. The same program will also be performed the evening before at the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur.