OSM's Launches New Season With CARMINA BURANA

With over 100 concerts for the 2016-2017 season, a true urban symphony is what the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and music director Kent Nagano have in store. To start things off, onSeptember 7, no less than Carmina Burana.

Bringing together more than 200 artists on stage, the work is being presented in an orchestral version for the very first time at Maison symphonique. It's also on September 7 that the magnificent hall is celebrating its 5th anniversary. During the season the OSM is presenting a broad variety of events sure to please both lovers of classical music and those seeking to discover it.

Staged on September 7, 8 and 10 (in the evening with an additional performance on Saturday afternoon), Carl Orff'scantata Carmina Burana is made up of 24 medieval poems. Ancient Latin cohabits with Middle High German and Old Provençal on subjects ranging from drinking to gambling, gluttony, lust and the inevitable cycle of the wheel of fortune that every year inexorably brings rebirth and springtime.

This monumental concert is conducted by Kent Nagano, and groups the musicians of the OSM with soprano Aline Kutan, tenor Frédéric Antoun, baritone Russell Braun and the OSM Chorus. Also on the program, Ligeti's Concert Românesc.