One of the summer’s most-anticipated concerts in Montréal—the Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the foot of Mount Royal—is back this year after hosting a record-breaking audience in 2023. On August 6 at 7:30 p.m., all of Montréal is invited to join Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the OM for this event—a unique opportunity to take in the music with tens of thousands of people at this iconic Montréal landmark. Everyone should experience it at least once!
The event, presented by CN, will start off with some of the most well-known melodies in symphonic music, Suite No. 1 from Bizet’s Carmen. This will be followed by a true Québécois tune, Claude Champagne’s Danse villageoise. Then we’ll hear excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s ballet Fancy Free (as Yannick Nézet-Séguin was a consultant on Maestro, our conductor naturally had to lead one of this great composer’s works) and Dances in the Canebrakes by African American composer Florence Price. And for the pièce de résistance, the Orchestre Métropolitain will perform Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony, the first symphony composed and published by an American woman.
Foot of Mount Royal (Park av. at Pine av.)