The word “expectation” best defines the music scene in the nation’s capital. The Musical Club had planned a big hit with a Bach concert by Leonidas Kavakos on October 4th. Only New York and Quebec were to hear that. The project fell through last week. In fact, the concert is postponed, but, suddenly, the Club will not see its audience again until 2022. When and with which artist? Nobody knows.
Les Violons du Roy will unveil their program on September 16. Only the return of Jonathan Cohen September 22 at Palais Montcalm with the soprano Sandrine Piau in a Mozart and Haydn program. The impatient will have clues on some of the posters that await them by consulting the program of the Bourgie Hall in Montreal, but will discover, like Montrealers, the choral projects with La Chapelle de Québec in the coming week.
The Opéra de Québec will present four times from October 23 to 30, with sets, costumes and the OSQ in the pit, an opera unveiled on September 15.
The Orchester symphonique de Québec is therefore the only one to have somewhat lowered its cards, with a global strategy and its fall programs. Having entrusted to the chief Bramwell Tovey, 67 years old, maintaining the level of the orchestra for two years, the season will be devoted to testing possible future musical directors. Bramwell Tovey will be in attendance on September 23 to lead the Fantastic symphony. The great carousel of chefs visits will start with the Estonian Olari Elts September 16 at the Grand Théâtre in the Symphonic dances of Rachmaninoff and the Violin Concerto by Tchaikovsky with Rachel Barton Pine.
The director of the Canadian Opera Company will then be tested, Johannes Debus, on October 3, in the 7e Symphony by Beethoven, the Italian Valentina Peleggi, on October 13, in the New World Symphony by Dvořák, the Norwegian Eivind Gullberg Jensen in the Ninth by Beethoven (November 3) and the brother-in-law of Rafael Payare, Joshua Weilerstein, in the 2e Symphony by Brahms (November 24). Let’s not forget that these prospects will be measured against North American chefs quietly tested in 2020 and 2021 during the pandemic.
To complete the offer in Quebec, let us point out that the young chef Francis Choinière there doubles its Montreal concerts and will present at the Palais Montcalm the Gloria by Vivaldi on October 24 and Four Seasons on November 14, and that the Bach Festival, too, will export its opening concert there, with Vaclav Luks, November 20.
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